Jalil Ur Rehman

How do we:
- motivate Local Government leaders to invest in DRR and resilience
- encourage national actions to improve DRR implementation at local level
- enhance collaboration between citizen groups and local governments for effective risk reduction
There is very large gap between theory and practice regarding the role of local authorities in the developing countries on developmental program specially DRR initiatives.There are so many factors contributing to thissituation. Colonial era, ext…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman April 2013
How do we:
- motivate Local Government leaders to invest in DRR and resilience
- encourage national actions to improve DRR implementation at local level
- enhance collaboration between citizen groups and local governments for effective risk reduction
Dear Colleagues and DRR Practitioners, How do we: - motivate Local Government leaders to invest in DRR and resilience - encourage national actions to improve DRR implementation at local level - enhance collaboration between citizen groups and local …

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman March 2013
Linking DRR and CCA in policy, programming and institutional partnership
What progress has your country made in linking disaster risk reduction with climate change adaption, in policy, institutional dialogue and partnership and programming? It is a time tested fact that we can not deny the close relation between DRR …

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman December 2012
Learning lessons from mainstreaming DRR into development planning and sectors
Mainstreaming DRR into development planning and sectors is very important for sustainable development.The target of resilient communities and nations can be achieved by mainstreaming DRR in to all sectors.DRR should be mainstream into education, he…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman December 2012
Changes in severity and frequency of extreme weather and climate events and consequent changes in behaviour
Dear colleagues, The climate is changing at global level which affects regions and local areas too.According a recent report of BBC(Urdu) news"the ice sheets melting faster at poles than before , So far, that's only added about half an in…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman December 2012
For greater impact, should we better mainstream disaster risk reduction into other post-2015 goals and how?
What I think any initiative for development is meaningless and useless until and unless, if it can not integrate DRR into policy, planing and implementation process.The development concept in the third world countries is best example of failure beca…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman November 2012
How best can disaster risk reduction be reflected in the post-2015 development agenda?
Without full reflection DRR in development agenda of post 2015, the real results of development can not be achieved. I agree with the aspect of dedicated DRR goal in the post 2015 development agenda.The theme should be like this,"all the develo…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman November 2012
Including disaster risk reduction and resilience in post-2015 development goals - what are the options?
Including disaster risk reduction and resilience in post-2015 development goals - what are the options? As the development goals core focus is poverty reduction and development at all sectors in the entire globe. The development targets are not ach…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman November 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their special knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience building?” These are following groups with special needs best recognized; -Old people -Chi…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman October 2012
How to make women and girls the visible force of resilience?
How to make women and girls the visible force of resilience? The gender balance based approach of DRR is the need of time. It is a clear cut fact without empowering women and girls the target of desirable DRR results can not be achieved. It is very…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman October 2012
What top three elements should be addressed in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?
Dear Friends, To day is 8th October, it reminds the great earthquake of Pakistan which was worsely affected the nine districts of the northern part. The lives losses were beyond man imagination. This was also one of the mega disaster in the world hi…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman October 2012
What top three elements should be addressed in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?
WHAT ARE THE TOP THREE ELEMENTS THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE POST-2015 FRAMEWORK FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION Dear friends I waited a lot for your comments but Mr Loy alone message invited me to say something about this. What I thinking in post…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman October 2012
What are major challenges to action on disaster risk reduction and building resilience? How do we tackle them?
What are the obstacles and major challenges to action on disaster risk reduction and building resilience? • What are the underlying factors that contribute to these challenges? • How do we tackle these challenges? • What are the solutions to movin…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman October 2012
How do we accelerate HFA implementation and enhance the momentum for DRR in the remaining three years till 2015?
WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAINTAIN AND ENHANCE THE MOMENTUM FOR DRR AND ACCELERATE HFA IMPLEMENTATION IN THESE REMAINING THREE YEARS AND THREE MONTHS STARTING 1ST OCTOBER 2012? In my opinion this remaining short time should be a priority focus of all the g…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman September 2012
Key achievements in building resilience since the adoption of the HFA in 2005
As a field practitioner since 2007 I observe some of the achievements since adoption of HFA 2005 in my country Pakistan which are the establishment of NDMA, PDMAs, legislation by parliament in the form of NDM Act 2010 and campaign by different …

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman September 2012
What are your expectations from the consultation process towards the development of the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?
Along all other topics, poverty, rapid urbanization, poor government policies and system, voilence, voilation of basic human rights should be also adressed as these factors core role for enhancing disaster risk in the whole world in general and thi…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman September 2012
What are your expectations from the first online dialogue as a whole?
Being field practioner i believe that this dialouge forum will help us to set some concret goals for coming decade.Along with natural disasters we have to focus maninduced disasters in our future stratregy. The forum should also give proper attenti…

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman September 2012
What are your expectations from the first online dialogue as a whole?
Iam quite optemistic for future better global strategy for DRR. All issues regarding disasters will be discussed and addressed by discussion. I also expect from the honourable particpants that their focus would be DRR related matters.

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman September 2012
What are your expectations from the first online dialogue as a whole?
I am quite optemistic for future better global strategy for DRR. All issues regarding disasters will be discussed and addressed by discussion. I also expect from the honourable particpants that their focus would be DRR related matters.

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman September 2012
Reaching out to a wider audience
The dialougue is very usful and will help to set global level DRR measures.The lesson learned throught the world during passed few years should be shared.

Comment by Jalil Ur Rehman August 2012

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