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Study on disaster risk reduction, decentralization and political economy
Source
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Oxford Policy Management

Publication Year
2011
Number of pages
52 p.
This report aims to answer the questions: i) how can decentralisation strengthen disaster risk reduction (DRR), and ii) what obstacles are encountered and how can these be overcome. The evidence in this report is drawn from a global literature review and field research in Colombia, Indonesia, Mozambique and South Africa.
The authors propose a deconcentrated disaster risk reduction and offer recommendations regarding its components: i) incentives, ii) disincentives, iii) capacity building. Regarding the latter one, the report proposes to:
- strengthen current but imperfect systems and institutions;
- not to decentralise down to the lowest possible level;
- take a "layered" approach;
- use academic and civil society organisations.
This document is an input paper of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.
Themes
Country & Region