Assessing Urban Resilience to Disasters

CBA 7 Mainstreaming DRR into Local

Development Planning

URBAN DRR ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK: LINKING DRR

AND DEVELOPMENT

Urban DRR Assessment Framework

Localizing HFA

Climate and Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI)

Understanding city resilience

PHYSICAL

- Electricity - Water - Sanitation & Solid Waste - Roads - Housing & Land- use

SOCIAL

- Population - Health - Education & Awareness - Social Capital - Community Preparedness

ECONOMIC

- Income - Employment - Household Assets - Finance & Savings - Budget & Subsidy

INSTITUTIONAL

- Mainstreaming - Crisis Management - Knowledge dissemination - Institutional Collaboration - Good Governance

NATURAL

- Intensity of Hazards

- Frequency of Hazards - Ecosystem - Land-use - Environmental Policies

Poor 1 Bad 2 Moderate

3 Good 4 Best 5

DIMENSIONS PHYSICAL SOCIAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONAL NATURAL

Parameters

considered for

AoRA

Electricity

Water

Sanitation and solid waste disposal

Accessibility of roads

Housing and land-use

Population

Health

Education and awareness

Social capital

Community preparedness during a disaster

Employment

Finance and savings

Budget and subsidy

Mainstreaming of DRR and CCA

Effectiveness of zone’s crisis management framework

Knowledge dissemination and management

Institutional collaboration with other organisations and stakeholders

Good governance

Ecosystem services

Land-use in natural terms

Environmental policies

Remaining

parameters not

considered in

AoRA

Income

Household assets

Intensity/severity of natural hazards

Frequency of natural hazards

Understanding community voice; Defining actions!

Action-oriented Resilience Assessment (AoRA)

7

Physical

Human

Institutional External

Natural

HFA* for Education

Disaster resilience indexes

School Disaster Resilience Analysis (SDRA)

WV BANGLADESH: URBAN DRR PROGRAM

• WASH • Environmental

policies • Health • Social capital;

collaboration • Community

preparedness • Economic • Mainstreaming

DRR • Knowledge

dissemination

LESSONS FOR EFFECTIVE MAINSTREAMING

ENABLERS OF MAINSTREAMING DRR IN DEVELOPMENT

NGOs and other stakeholders GOVERNMENT

DEVELOPMENT DONORS

COMMUNITIES: THE HEART OF PRACTICE AND INNOVATIONS

INTENTIONAL AND SUSTAINED PARTNERSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT ON MAINSTREAMING DRR IN DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPMEN T PROCESS

Policy

Planning

Implementation

Monitoring & Evaluation

Budget cycle

Aid cycle

Project cycle

Nicaragua’s Potters For Peace

NGOs and other stakeholders

Government’s Planning and Sector Ministries

MAINSTREAMING DRR IN

DEVELOPMENT

ENGAGING DEVELOPMENT DONORS

D R R is SAFE DEVELOPMENT

THANK YOU!

Ronilda Co DRR and Community Resilience Specialist

World Vision Asia Pacific Region Master in Urban and Environmental Planning and Management

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)