Disaster risk reduction in development guideline

This guideline focuses on bridging disaster risk reduction (DRR) concepts with mainstream development initiatives as well as highlighting how DRR is relevant to specific development sector and providing examples on which activities within these line sectors constitute DRR. The book emphasises the key fact that while disaster can set back development, development initiatives can in turn help reduce existing and future disaster risks. It argues that such incorporation of DRR initiatives within mainstreamed development sectors is necessary to ensure Thailand’s increasing resilience to disasters.

This is the second handbook in the series, with the first being the disaster risk reduction handbook in Thai published in December 2013. It is produced under the ‘Strengthening disaster management capacities in Thailand’ project, a partnership between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Thailand, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) to introduce DRR in development context to Thai sectors, ministries and general public.