Skip to main content

UNDRR Logo

Knowledge

  • Global Assessment Report (GAR)
  • PreventionWeb

Special Events

  • Global Platform
  • International Day for Disaster Reduction
  • World Tsunami Awareness Day

Tools

  • Sendai Framework Monitor
  • Voluntary Commitments

UNDRR

  • UNDRR Africa
  • UNDRR Americas
  • UNDRR Asia-Pacific
  • UNDRR Europe
  • About UNDRR
    About us
    As the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNDRR convenes partners and coordinates activities to create safer, more resilient communities.
    Learn more

    We Mega Menu - About us

    • Our work
    • The Sendai Framework
    • Head of UNDRR
    • Funding
    • Our team
    • History
    • Work with us
  • Our impact
    Our impact
    UNDRR works globally towards the prevention of new, and the reduction of existing disaster risk.
    Learn more

    We Mega Menu - News & Events

    • Latest news
    • Event calendar
    • Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework
    • Global and Regional platforms
    • Media centre
    • Awards
    • Campaigns
    • Our impact

    We Mega Menu - News & Events 2

    • Focus areas
      • Sustainable development
      • Climate action
      • Humanitarian action
      • Inclusion
      • Financing prevention
      • Risk governance
      • Least Developed Countries
  • What we do
    What we do
    UNDRR helps decision makers across the globe better understand and change their attitude to risk
    Learn more

    We Mega menu - Sendai Framework 1

    • Global risk analysis and reporting
    • Monitoring the Sendai Framework
    • Disaster Losses and Damages tracking system
    • Early warnings for all
    • Comprehensive Disaster and Climate Risk Management (CRM)
    • Training

    We Mega menu - Sendai Framework 2

    • Partnerships
      • Partners and stakeholders
      • Initiatives
  • Where we work
    Where we work
    UNDRR works with partners around the world to reduce disaster risk and build resilient communities.
    Learn more

    We Mega Menu - Where we work 1

    • Africa
    • Americas & Caribbean
    • Arab States
    • Asia & Pacific
    • Europe & Central Asia

    We Mega Menu - Where we work 2

    • Bonn Office
    • Kobe Liaison Office
    • New York Liaison Office
    • Office for North East Asia and Global Education and Training Institute
    • Suva Sub-regional Office
  • Research and publications
    Research and publications
    We invest in collecting and analysing risk data through a range of tools, knowledge products, and mobilising like-minded partners.
    UNDRR publications

    We Mega menu - Knowledge 2

    • Global Assessment Report (GAR)
    • UNDRR publications
    • UN resolutions & reports
    • Terminology

    We Mega menu - Knowledge 1

    • PreventionWeb
    • Words into Action
  1. Documents and publications
Reports
Author(s) Manu Gupta Vijayalakshmi Viswanathan

Local leadership for Disaster Resilience: Profiles from Asia and the Pacific

Source
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Cover of report showing a local leaders leading a preparedness exercise.
Publication Year
2020
Number of pages
28 p.

Disaster risks are growing more intense, complex, and unpredictable. This growing unpredictability and intensity of extreme events, in the midst of increasingly complex socio-economic dynamics fuelled by growing inequalities, call for a new approach to resilience building and planning. This is a challenge that cannot be addressed by formal institutions alone.

With a deep understanding of their contexts, local leaders are a vital cog in the wheel of resilience building. They have a unique ability to reach excluded communities who lack access or fall outside the gambit of large-scale programming. Local leaders often possess the capacity to innovate and have a strong understanding of local systems, politics, and culture. Put together, this means a strong position to link preparedness, response, and long-term recovery. 

Capable local leaders are able to surmount these challenges with scarce resources and in difficult conditions. They continuously engage with their communities to educate, empower, and build skills that contribute to long-term community resilience. These roles give local leaders a significant comparative advantage in driving overall change. 

Local leaders also have a direct role in helping achieve Target E of the Sendai Framework, which aims to ‘Substantially increase the number of countries with national, and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020’, and are among the most influential drivers in achieving the SDGs.

There are countless success stories across Asia-Pacific and the local champions behind them and this publication aims to highlight a few of them.

Share this
www.undrr.org/quick/12963 Copy to clipboard
Go back
Also featured on

PreventionWeb

Download
Download file
(4.73 MB/PDF)
Related information
Related links
‘How can I make this better?’ Profiles of women’s leadership in disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific
National leadership: How a change in thinking about vulnerability and systemic disaster risk is shaping nation-wide reforms and national programs of work in disaster risk reduction in Australia
Localizing climate actions in Nepal: The role of local governments in implementing National Climate Change Policy and Nationally Determined Contribution
Women’s Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction: examples from the Arab States
Keywords
Themes
Civil Society/NGOs
Community-based DRR
Disaster Risk Management
Early Warning
Governance
Inclusion
Indigenous Knowledge
Country & Region
Asia
Oceania

Stay in touch

Sign up for UNDRR updates

UNDRR Tools

  • Making Cities Resilient
  • PreventionWeb
  • Sendai Framework Monitor
  • Voluntary Commitments

Contact us

Sendai Framework

© UNDRR

Footer

  • Fraud Alert
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Sustainable Development Goals Logo