Krishna Rao Pinninti

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 Bernadia and colleagues, Your opening remarks are very useful. Although I refrain from offering solutions that fir 'one-size-fits-all' prescriptions, I believe the following ingredients are relevant in most scenarios: Local authorit…

Comment by Krishna Rao Pinninti March 2013
Linking DRR and CCA in policy, programming and institutional partnership
Dear All, Integrating CCA, DRR, and SD is the way to go. However, substantial learning is due in this integration efforts at various levels and spheres of acitivity. Polycentric governance (as described in her Nobel Prize Lecture by Ostrom) is one o…

Comment by Krishna Rao Pinninti December 2012
Including disaster risk reduction and resilience in post-2015 development goals - what are the options?
Greetings (from a disaster-ridden area in the US)! The issues of focus in this round are very important. Global community should work on the effective integration of disaster governance and development management, based a clearly defined and agreed …

Comment by Krishna Rao Pinninti November 2012
What top three elements should be addressed in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?
After the SREX Report of the IPCC, it is now well established that effective integration of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk risk reduction (DRR) remains the key requirement for urgent actions. The Conference of Parties (COP) of the…

Comment by Krishna Rao Pinninti October 2012

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