From Caribbean hurricanes to Indian floods: experience and lessons learned for disaster risk reduction
This report summarizes a dinner discussion gathering the ActionAid International Emergencies and United Nations Conflict and Humanitarian Team to consider progress in the light of the recent increased number of disasters and to discuss how the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 (HFA), produced to ensure that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a national and a local priority, can be implemented effectively.
It reminds that the HFA was designed by the world's governments at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, to build the resilience of nations and communities to disasters. It covers DRR in the developed world, with the case of UK and the USA, and in the developing world, with the case of the Mumbai floods in 2005. It also urges for top down and bottom up interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral approaches to attack the root-causes of people's vulnerability.