Towards a post-2015 framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction
BUILDING THE RESILIENCE OF NATIONS AND COMMUNITIES TO DISASTERS
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Linking DRR and CCA in policy, programming and institutional partnership
Dear on line dialoguers, Thanks Krishna, Lee and Tomoko for your contributions. Tomoko, you remind us that improving livelihoods that are in harmony with environmental conservation, and good natural resource management can contribute to economic d…
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Learning lessons from mainstreaming DRR into development planning and sectors
Dear participants, Thanks to Tomoko and Naunehal for their latest posts in the closing phase of this round. Tomoko reiterates that in order to reverse the wide ranging potential adverse consequences of disasters on agricultural production, fisher…
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Changes in severity and frequency of extreme weather and climate events and consequent changes in behaviour
Dear Participants, Thanks to Pios and Glenn for their posts. Pios points to a continuing challenge in Zimbabwe and SADC as a whole where weather related hazards are still seen as 'acts of God'; where nothing can be done by humans to prev…
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Changes in severity and frequency of extreme weather and climate events and consequent changes in behaviour
Post From Mr Pios Ncube, Zimbabwe on December 5 Inadvertently posted in the activity wall The discussion on DRR and Climate change as well as severity of climatic hazards is an interesting one. Well the fact of the matter is that the climate has a…
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Changes in severity and frequency of extreme weather and climate events and consequent changes in behaviour
Dear participants, Many thanks to Jalil and Tomoko for their posts in what has been a very lively conversation. Jalil narrates the experience of the widespread floods of 2010 and Sindh floods of 2011; and the apprehensions of people in Northern Pa…
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Learning lessons from mainstreaming DRR into development planning and sectors
Dear Participants, Thanks to Humberto, Eric, and Jalil for sharing insights on the actions initiated, and the challenges faced in implementing this core strategic goal of the HFA, in Latin America, France and Pakistan. Eric points us to the harsh …
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Linking DRR and CCA in policy, programming and institutional partnership
Dear participants, Thanks to John, Jalil, Tomoko, and Aslam for joining this thread and contributing your views, including your reactions to earlier posts. Tomoko shows the synergies across sectors in both approaches. Jalil shares about the evolut…
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Linking DRR and CCA in policy, programming and institutional partnership
Dear colleague on line dialoguers, Thanks to Jeong, Babar, Sher Wali, Arshinta, Himadri, Shakeb, and Pardeep for your valuable and substantive posts, all of which support DRR CCA integration and partnership at institutional and programming level. …
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Changes in severity and frequency of extreme weather and climate events and consequent changes in behaviour
Dear participants, Thanks to Praful and Rabah for their posts on the occurrence of extreme weather events in the Himalayan region of North East India and Algeria and the Saharan region respectively. Rabah points to unusual incidence of torrential …
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Linking DRR and CCA in policy, programming and institutional partnership
Dear participants, Thanks to Earl and Rabah for their posts. Rabah shares the progress made in Algerian by a multi institutional network of partners studying vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the city of Algiers, and is hopeful tha…
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Learning lessons from mainstreaming DRR into development planning and sectors
Dear participants, Many thanks to Pardeep (Fiji), Earl (US), Glenn (Korea) and Rabah (Algeria) for your posts from 4 continents. Pardeep succinctly states the key message “mainstreaming DRR into all development programs supports better livelihood…
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Loy Rego
December 2012
Changes in severity and frequency of extreme weather and climate events and consequent changes in behaviour
Dear participants in the dialogue, Thanks to Guido, Priya and Babar for their posts on the occurrence of extreme weather events in specific locations in Namibia, India and Pakistan. Guido draws our attention to the fact that while the hydraulic m…
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Loy Rego
December 2012
How best can disaster risk reduction be reflected in the post-2015 development agenda?
Dear colleagues in the online dialogue, A key point that recurred in discussion in the first two rounds of this on line dialogue was the need to connect these discussions with the ongoing in person consultations taking place at national, regional a…
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Loy Rego
November 2012
For greater impact, should we better mainstream disaster risk reduction into other post-2015 goals and how?
Dear Nazare and Hanna, Thanks for posting this landmark policy address of your Administrator. I would encourage all participants in the dialogue to read it, where Ms Clark eloquently explains UNDP’s approach and its commitment and future plans to u…
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Loy Rego
November 2012
Including disaster risk reduction and resilience in post-2015 development goals - what are the options?
Many thanks to UNDP for leading this round, and for linking these discussion on the successor to the HFA to the e- discussion on “ Conflict, Fragility and Disasters” which is the related one of nine thematic discussions on the post 2015 developmen…
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Loy Rego
November 2012
Including disaster risk reduction and resilience in post-2015 development goals - what are the options?
THERE IS NO OPTION - resilience is an underpinning element and at the core of any effort to advance development, roll back poverty and put us all on a path to enhanced human growth, as well as an essential ingredient of protecting our Mother earth a…
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Loy Rego
November 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
Dear Himadri, Maggie, Tomojeet, Helena, Silvia, Jose Luis, Greetings and warm appreciation of the multitude and wealth of insights on multiple causes of and kinds of “vulnerability" and the double and triple burden they imply. Jose Luis your …
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Loy Rego
October 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
Dear on line colleagues, Helena's question is important and relevant and in search of anwers I reached out to resources available in Vientiane, and was happy to discover one of four Lao language training manuals produced by the Lao PDR NDMO a…
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Loy Rego
October 2012
How to make women and girls the visible force of resilience?
Dear colleague on line dialoguers, Glad to see so many of you active online on this new round and so many of you giving specific and valuable examples of good and promising practice on womens empowerment and leadership. To David, Prema and Giorgi…
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Loy Rego
October 2012
What top three elements should be addressed in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?
From Hidetomi Oi : "My suggestions relate to “What top three elements should be addressed in the Post 2015 Framework for DRR”, and partially to “How do we accelerate HFA implementation till 2015”.The three suggestions below are all for the p…
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Loy Rego
October 2012
What top three elements should be addressed in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?
Dear colleagues registered in the dialogue and all visitors, Thanks to Jalil, Himadri, Krishna, Oi san, Marcus and Tomoko, we now have six distinct viewpoints, with some harmony, on what are three top elements to be considered in our next global fr…
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Loy Rego
October 2012
What top three elements should be addressed in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?
Thanks Jalil. I too waited with bated breadth and with some disappointment that there was such a slow pace of any reaction to this question. I do hope that now that you have cast the first stone, that many others will join in. Lets us take the bro…
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Loy Rego
October 2012
What are major challenges to action on disaster risk reduction and building resilience? How do we tackle them?
Dear participants, It is serendipitous, that while we are discussing the challenges in building resilience, and several participants flagged the challenges of harmonisation of agendas and need fro additional new resources, that a major and influent…
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Loy Rego
October 2012
How do we accelerate HFA implementation and enhance the momentum for DRR in the remaining three years till 2015?
Here is a newspaper article in the mainstream press that Ben referred to on the Islamic Relief report . Food for thought. -------------------------- UN urged to create global fund for disaster prevention Islamic Relief calls for fund to give poor na…
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Loy Rego
October 2012
How do we accelerate HFA implementation and enhance the momentum for DRR in the remaining three years till 2015?
UNISDR announces major review of national platforms Date:2 Oct 2012 Source(s):United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR) By Denis McClean Dubrovnik - UNISDR, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, is im…
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October 2012
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