TAKING FORWARD THE RECOMMENDATIONS: The case of IRP and the ILO

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TAKING FORWARD THE RECOMMENDATIONSThe case of
IRP and the ILO

• UN's first Global Assessment Report
• on Disaster Risk Reduction
• Geneva, May 2009

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THE INTERNATIONAL RECOVERY PLATFORM

• Thematic Platform within the ISDR system
• Responds in particular to two strategic goals of
  HFA
• The more effective integration of disaster risk
  considerations into sustainable development
  policies, planning and programming
• The systematic incorporation of risk reduction
  approaches into the design and implementation of
  emergency preparedness, response and recovery
  programmes
• IRP was launched in May 2005 to support Hyogo
  Frame work for Action (in particular, priority
  area 4).
• It seeks to fulfil the strategic goals and
  priority areas of the HFA by functioning as an
  international repository of knowledge and as a
  networking mechanism for recovery, aiming to
  address the gaps and constraints inherent in the
  current contexts of recovery.
• IRP Secretariat operates in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
  hosted by ISDR Kobe.

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Members of the IRP Steering Committee 2009-2010

• Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
• Cabinet Office, Government of Japan (vice-chair
  2005-2010)
• Hyogo Prefectural Government, Japan
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red
  Crescent Societies (IFRC)
• International Labour Organization (ILO) (chair
  2008-2010)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Italy
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
  (SDC), Government of
• Switzerland
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (past
  chair 2005-2008)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme
  (UN-HABITAT)
• United Nations secretariat of the International
  Strategy for Disaster
• Reduction (UN/ISDR)
• United Nations Office for the Coordination of
  Humanitarian Affairs
• (UN/OCHA)
• World Bank (WB)

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How IRP contribute to implement GAR
Recommendations
IDENTIFYING KNOWLEDGE GAPS PROMOTING TOOLS
DEVELOPMENT
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The ILO contribution to address the underlying
risk factors

• Strengthening livelihoods
• The ILO/FAO Livelihood Assessment Toolkit
• Innovative financing for disaster risk
  management
• The ILO and the Melissa and Bill Gates Foundation
  initiative

An innovative approach to assess disaster
effects, identifying impact in productive
livelihoods, understanding interaction with
socio-economic vulnerability factors and enabling
disaster resilient livelihood recovery strategies
In Peru, support Seguros La Positiva, in
targeting farmers, rural workers and their
families, through the water Associations. The
collaboration with these grassroots organizations
trusted by local communities enables the insurer
to reach a market that it otherwise would not be
able to serve and to promote disaster risk
management measures to deal with risk posed by
El Niño phenomenon.
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ILO contribution to address the underlying risk
factors

• The management of ecosystems services
• The ILO/UNEP/ITUC/IOE Green Jobs Initiative has
  three different areas
• Modelling climate change policies and assessing
  their impacts on employment, incomes and
  livelihoods.
• Promotion of Green Jobs in different sectors and
  geographical areas
• Measures for a just transition to a low carbon
  economy.
• Adaptation to climate change is included, in the
  second and third area while the first is devoted
  to address the employment implications of
  mitigation policies. The ILO pursues the
  inclusion of environmentally-friendly and decent
  labour dimension in the adaptation policies and
  measures as well as the establishment of
  accompanying measures to smooth the impacts on
  workers and enterprises of climate change effects.

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ILO contribution to address the underlying risk
factors

• Partnerships for urban and local governance
• ILO-ITC/ILO-CRISIS/UNISDR Initiative
• The international Training Center of the ILO,
  located in Turin Italy, plays a fundamental role
  on ILO institutional commitment to mainstream
  disaster risk management into the World of Work
  and their Decent Work Agenda.

Disaster Risk Reduction within the framework of
Sustainable Local Development of the
International Training Centre of the
International Labour Organization (ITC/ILO) was
conceived within the framework of the United
Nations International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction (UN/ISDR) in response to increasing
concern about the magnitude of disasters and
their impact on local communities worldwide.
Being part of the capacity-building component of
the International Recovery Platform (IRP), run in
conjunction with the ILO Programme on Crisis
Response and Reconstruction, it also looks at
post-disaster reconstruction, and identifies
recovery as one of the key opportunities for
reducing disaster risk. Initially launched in
2007 for Latin America, today is adapted in
partnership with ADPC for different countries in
Asia.
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ILO contribution to address the underlying risk
factors

• Community and local level approaches for disaster
  risk reduction
• UNDP/WB-GFDRR initiative on Pre-disaster
  Livelihood Recovery Planning Pre-DLRP
• The Local Economic Recovery -LER- Guidelines for
  Post Disaster Recovery.

Pre-disaster recovery planning deals specifically
with planning for recovery, however, resilience
to hazards reduces the damage and losses and the
amount of recovery support needed after a
disaster occurs. Therefore, no Pre-disaster
recovery planning process is complete unless it
includes the significant and systematic
addressing of the issue of risk reduction.
LER is a time-bound process where different local
and international actors operating in a
crisis-affected area are brought together to plan
for the revitalization of the productive
activities and the restoration of the local
capital. The latter consists of skills,
knowledge, resources and networks which are
embedded within institutions, nature,
entrepreneurs, workers, Local resources are
identified and strengthened, and their allocation
and use are optimized to better contribute to
socio-economic resilient recovery.
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The role of the ILO in climate change adaptation

• Promoting Employment and Social Protection
  policies and Social Dialogue and ensuring that
  Climate Change Adaptation for vulnerable economic
  sectors is a policy priority based on strong
  institutional mechanisms.
• Raising awareness and disseminating information
  on climate change adaptation measures for
  productive economic sectors.
• Assessing livelihood vulnerabilities and risks
  and the impact of climate change on employment
  and income, including in the informal sector.
• Ensuring that institutional and technical
  national capacity is in place to implement
  climate change adaptation measures for productive
  livelihoods.
• Enhancing the employability of job seekers
  (women, men, youth) through vocational training
  and the functioning of the labour market.
• Promoting and facilitating the consolidation and
  emergence of new micro-businesses and SMEs as a
  means of increasing resilience of the economy to
  climate change shocks by ensuring diversification
  of job opportunities and income generating
  activities.
• Support to Microfinance Schemes. In order to
  contribute to livelihood disaster risk reduction
  and increase resilience of employment and income,
  ILO promotes the development of financial
  risk-sharing mechanisms, particularly insurance
  and reinsurance against disasters, as
  appropriate.
• Through the mobilization of its constituents,
  ILO encourages all stakeholders to foster a
  culture of disaster prevention, putting greater
  emphasis on climate change adaptation and
  promotes the establishment of forms of
  publicprivate partnerships to better engage the
  local private sector in those activities.
• Ensuring that social security and safety nets
  schemes are functioning in high-risk zones, in
  order to reduce vulnerabilities and risks related
  to climate change events.
• Ensuring preparedness of central and local
  authorities and stakeholders for quick livelihood
  recovery in case of future disasters through
  pre-disaster livelihood recovery planning.
• Promoting and supporting the creation of Green
  Jobs

Contribution to the UNFCCC workshop on
Increasing Economic Resilience To Climate Change
And Reducing Reliance To Climate Change On
Vulnerable Economic Sectors Through Economic
Diversification (Cairo, Egypt 28-30 April 2009)