Disasters and development: reducing risk - protecting livelihoods

This course on Disasters and Development: Reducing Risks – Protecting Livelihoods views responsibility reducing disaster occurrence as a shared undertaking that goes far beyond improved disaster or emergency response. It gives explicit priority to assessing and building on household and community capabilities in at-risk communities, so that our vulnerability reduction efforts are sustainable.

In this regard, the course takes a developmental approach to the sustainable reduction of disaster risk. In both the national context of the Disaster Management Act and National Disaster Management Framework, as well as with respect to the priorities of the Hyogo Framework for Action, it is centrally relevant to disaster managers, councillors / political leaders. However, it is equally relevant to those concerned with all aspects of service delivery, business continuity, poverty reduction, humanitarian action and sustainable development.