Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction: Guidance Notes for Development Organisations

Content:

Since the late 1990s, there has been increasing recognition of this need to ‘mainstream’ disaster risk reduction into development. A number of development organisations have begun efforts to mainstream disaster risk reduction into their work, undertaking various related institutional, policy and procedural changes and adjusting operational practice. This publication supports this process, providing a series of 14 guidance notes for use by development organisations in adapting programming, project appraisal and evaluation tools to mainstream disaster risk reduction into development work in hazard-prone countries. The guidelines are deliberately intended as short, practical briefs supplementing existing, more general, guidelines on programming, appraisal and evaluation tools. The series covers the following subjects:

1. Introduction
2. Collecting and using information on natural hazards
3. Poverty reduction strategies
4. Country programming
5. Project cycle management
6. Logical and results based frameworks
7. Environmental assessment
8. Economic analysis
9. Vulnerability and capacity analysis
10. Sustainable livelihoods approaches
11. Social impact assessment
12. Construction design, building standards and site selection
13. Evaluating disaster risk reduction initiatives
14. Budget support

The publication was translated into Bahasa Indonesia by Hivos and Circle Indonesia.

Author:

Charlotte Benson and John Twigg with Tiziana Rossetto

Organisation:

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies / ProVention Consortium

Details:

full document: 1.1MB, pdf

Language:

English