Disaster Risk Reduction and Governance.

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Disaster Risk Reduction and Governance. Ron
Cadribo.
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OUTLINEOVERVIEW

• Disaster Risk and Development
• Development-Disaster Relationship.
• Factoring Disaster Risk into Development.
• GOVERNANCE.
• Definition
• Good governance
• FACTORING DISASTER RISK REDUCTION.
• Governance and Disaster Risk Reduction.
• Governance at Central Level
• Governance at Local Level
• Governance at Community Level
• Regional and Global Partnership Roles

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• SUMMARY
• Disaster Risk Reduction an Development
• Disaster risk as an unresolved problem of
  development
• Development processes and experiences
• Human activities and decisions
• Climatic change
• Globalisation

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Factoring Disaster Risk into Development

• disaster risk can be managed
• development gains can be protect against the
  effects of natural hazards
• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 
• MDG 1 Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
• MDG 2Achieving universal primary education
• MDG 3 Promoting gender equality and empowering
  women
• MDG 4 Reducing child mortality
• MDG 5 Improving maternal health
• MDG 6Combating HIV/ AIDS, malaria and other
  diseases
• MDG 7Ensuring environmental sustainability
• MDG 8 Developing global partnership for
  development 
• Governance the missing link
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• Key Elements of Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy
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• Vulnerability and risk assessment
• Effective early warning systems
• Public awareness to understand, vulnerability,
  risk and risk reduction
• Public and political commitment to risk reduction
• Creation of multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral
  partnerships, including the expansion of disaster
  risk management networks
• Improved scientific knowledge about the causes of
  natural disasters as well as the effects of
  natural hazards and related technological and
  environmental factors have on society.
• Continued international cooperation
• Strengthening of disaster reduction capabilities
  and coordinating structures for policy and
  strategy development and the development of early
  warning

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• The primary steps in disaster risk reduction can
  be reduced into three
•  Political Will
• Determining and understanding the nature of the
  disaster risk
• Identifying and developing policies and
  strategies that reduce disaster risk
• Mobilising the political will and defining this
  institutional and structural mechanism that can
  generate disaster risk reduction policies and
  strategies

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• GOVERNANCE. 
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• Definition
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• Governance refers generally to the set of
  instruments through which people living in a
  state, believing in common core values, govern
  themselves by the means of laws, rules and
  regulations enforced by the state apparatus. It
  denotes a system of values, polices, institution
  by which society manages its economic, political
  and social affairs through interaction among the
  state, civil society and the private sector.
• The three components economic, political and
  administrative.
• Economic governance
• Political Governance
• Administrative governance

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• Good Governance
• Institutions that of democratic pluralism that
  facilitate
• Public participation,
• Equity and rule of law
• Responsiveness effective and efficiency
• The legitimacy of political processes
• Accountability
• Strategic vision and.
• Values of equality, empathy and tolerance.

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• Central level
• Political will and commitment to sharing
  decision-making power
•   Effective policy,
•  States ability to use available state and
  non-state capacities to make and implement them.
• Local Government Level
•  Decentralised Local governance structures
• Citizen Participation
• Partnership

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• Community level
• Favourable political environment that supports
  and promotes participatory practices, and
  specific opportunities for women to be involved
  in decision-making and implementation of
  development programmes.
• Leadership roles
• Empowerment,and ownership,

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• Governance Role at Central Level
• Policy and Planning.
• Coordination and Institutional Framework
• Legislation
• Governance Local Level 
• Decentralised structures, which provide
  opportunities for participation, and involvement
  of all segments of society. Disaster risk
  management at local level as key element in any
  viable national disaster risk reduction strategy,
  
• effective municipal and local government
  institutions.

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FACTORING DISASTER RISK REDUCTION. Political
Commitment Need for greater participation and
involvement of broad range of stakeholders in
decision-making. disaster risk and coordinating
structures Decentralisation of planning and
decision making powers and responsibilities
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• Governance at Community Level
• community participation, and ownership in all
  aspects of disaster risk reduction.

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Regional Level  and International roles and
Responsibilities

• Regional Level,
• Defining and shaping common regional level
  strategy
• Development of national Capacities
• Knowledge, information and documentation,
• Addressing trans-boarder issues
• Framework for scientific, technical and
  professional interface with Government and
  Non-governmental structures.
• International level,
• Advocacy and galvanising support and assistance
• Building of capacity
• Facilitating technology development technology
  acquisition and technology transfer to promote
  industrial development and manufacturing.
• Providing development and technical assistance
• Promotion of regional cooperation and integration
  issues
• Provide finance for programmes dealing with
  poverty alleviation

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• Appropriate governance for disaster risk
  management is a fundamental requirement if risk
  considerations are to be factored into
  development planning and if existing risks are to
  be successfully mitigated. (UNDP, 200489)

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Summary The critical importance of good
governance is that it creates the favourable
environment at international regional, national
and local levels that permit the generation of
appropriate development plans and strategies that
contribute the achievement of MDGs and disaster
risk reduction.Good governance should achieve
increase coordination at all levels, the
development of multi-sectoral disaster risk
management policies and strategies based on
broad involvement of all individuals, government,
private sector and civil society institutions,
allocation of appropriate resources at local,
national and international levels, effective
partnerships