Accountability and non-discrimination in flood risk management, investigating the potential of a rights-based approach: Honduras case study
This is a report on the application of ‘accountability’ and ‘non-discrimination’ as principles to guide flood risk management. It considers the potential of a rights-based approach to flood management. It describes how the flood management/disaster risk reduction (DRR) ‘sector’ in Honduras has been ‘scoped’ using tools of analysis to investigate how well (or inadequately) poor populations at risk are being served by current laws, policies and institutions – viewed through the two ‘lenses’ of accountability and nondiscrimination.
The report argues the case for the deeper and wider analysis of accountability, and understanding of equity in relation to flood management, as part of building capacity for influencing of reform of DRR governance and promotion of social mobilisation.