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Views from the Frontline 2011

57% of people

living at the frontline of disasters

feel disaster losses have increased over the last

five years. 21% feel they have decreased

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Natural disasters in 2010 caused economic

losses to triple to US$150 billion from US$50

billion a year earlier.

These disasters also claimed significantly

more lives with nearly 300,000 killed in 2010

compared with 10,000 in 2009.

UN Global Assessment Report 2011

While investments in improving

preparedness and response rarely affect

vested economic and political interests,

seriously addressing the underlying risk

drivers almost certainly will.


The central role of local governance in DRRM is

acknowledged by most countries. However,

across all indicators relating to

decentralization, the strengthening of local

governments and community participation

progress reported remains limited and reveals

a growing gap in rhetoric verses reality

Review of Yokahama Strategy

The review of progress made in implementing the

'Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World' 1994-2004

stressed the importance of disaster risk reduction

being underpinned by a more pro-active approach to

informing, motivating and involving people in all

aspects of disaster risk reduction in their own local

communities.


In most countries national policy and legislation remains

fundamentally skewed to support the management of

disasters, in particular preparedness and response.

Local capacity was identified as a key gap in delivering

effective DRRM. Dedicated budget allocations for DRRM

to local governments remain the exception rather than

the rule.

Chair's Summary GP-DRR 2009

The Global Platform emphasized that success in reducing

disaster risk and adapting to a changing climate requires

extensive collaboration and partnerships that reflect the

mutual dependence of central and local governments

and civil society actors. These should provide necessary

resources at the local level, involve civil society in

monitoring progress and include mechanisms for

increased accountability

Hyogo Framework for Action Mid Term Review

2011

Notable progress in setting up institutional

structures and developing plans, but less so in

adequate resourcing and local

implementation.

HFA Mid Term Review 2011

There should be a post-2015 instrument, one

that offers approaches and incentives that

would enable the scaling-up of disaster risk

reduction efforts and would emphasize greater

reach to local and community level.

Lawrence Temfwe


If we do not join hands, no one

person or group can make it

happen...

World Development Report 2011

Actions at the community level lay the

foundation for national progress.

Institutions which endure are sustained by

the respect and trust of the population.

Robert Zoellick

President, The World Bank Group

April 6, 2011

Our message to our clients, whatever their

political system, is that you cannot have

successful development without good

governance and without the participation of

your citizens...

...but to participate effectively, civil society

groups need to build capacity

Global Assessment Report 2011

In the absence of 'social demand' DRR will

continue to be a political challenge for

governments however much evidence is

produced regarding its economic, moral or

humanitarian imperative

The Economics of Effective Prevention

The World Bank

If the poor do not have opportunities to

influence public decision-making,

spending and allocation of DRR

measures could be biased against those

most at risk

Chair's Summary GP-DRR 2009

Success in reducing disaster risk and adapting to climate

change...requires extensive collaboration and partnerships

that reflect the mutual dependence of central and local

governments and civil society actors.

These should provide necessary resources at the local level,

involve civil society in monitoring progress on disaster risk

reduction and include mechanisms for increased

accountability

World Disasters Report 2010

Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation

Most examples of where municipal and/or

local governments have addressed DRR have

come from nations or cities where popular

pressure and political reforms have made

local governments more accountable and

responsive to their citizens

Ensuring a return on investment in local action

Round Table session, 10 May

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16.45 - 18.30

Panellists:

Mr Abdou Sane Assemblée National du Sénégal, Dakar, Sénégal

Mr David Cadman President of ICLEI, Vancouver, Canada

Ms Haydee Rodriguez President of the Union of Cooperatives of Las Brumas,

Nicaragua

Mr Keith Hinds Mayor, Portmore, Jamaica

Mr Marcus Oxley Chair, Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for

Disaster Reduction

Mr Philip Verges Founder, Small Equity Initiative

Ms Yoka Brandt Director-General of International Cooperation, Ministry

of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands

Facilitator: Andrew Bidnell, Global Network of Civil Society

Organisations for Disaster Reduction

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