Fadi Hamdan

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
Enhancing collaboration between citizen groups and local government can significantly contribute to DRR efforts. In my view, this can be best affected through the establishment of local forums for DRR, which should be a legislative requirement fo…

Comment by Fadi Hamdan 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
In order to encourage national action to improve DRR implementation at local level, we must, in my view, proceed along the following lines: INSTITUTIONAL 1. Understand the decision making process regarding DRR at both the national and local levels.…

Comment by Fadi Hamdan 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
Motivating local leaders to invest in DRR and resilience must, in my opinion, advance along two main lines. First there is a need to enact legislation which explicitly states that the responsibility for DRR lies with local authorities (in many pa…

Comment by Fadi Hamdan April 2013

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Disaster Risk Management Centre

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Lebanon