Disaster Risk Reduction - What is it and why do need it? Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures are designed to protect livelihoods and the assets ofcommunities and individuals from the impact of hazards by: • Mitigation: reducing the frequency, scale, intensity and impact of hazards. • Preparedness: strengthening the capacity of communities to withstand, respond to and recover from hazards, and of government, implementing partners and Concern to establish speedy and appropriate interventions when the communities’ capacities are overwhelmed. • Advocacy: favourably influencing the social, political, economic and environmental issues that contribute to the causes and magnitude of impact of hazards. DRR is often a complementary or integral part of other programmes such as micro-finance,food security, promoting agricultural diversity, or capacity building. On occasions, particularly with preparedness planning and advocacy issues, it can be a stand-alone activity. The inclusion of DRR measures in programming does not require a complete departure from Concern’s current programme planning approach; it can be included within project concept notes, programme cycle management and conceptually sits comfortably within the livelihoods model. However, DRR does require the active adoption of a DRR perspective in our contextual analysis and programme planning. This requires undertaking a risk assessment that identifies the probability of a hazard occurring and its likely impacts on a given community. It furthermore requires knowledge of some of the wide range of measures that can be included in programmes in order to reduce risk to communities and individuals.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:32:13 +0000
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