Promoting a ‘Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management Approach’

LEARNINGS

• Need to avoid “mal-adaptation” & ensure that “spontaneous adaptation” is better informed and leads to effective adaptation

• Increasing exposure to risks – economic risks driving urgency of urban DRR

• Entry points for CCA: rebuilding from disasters (build back better -PDNAs) & building new cities (urban planning, Water & Sanitation, etc)

LEARNINGS:Vertical Integration • Moving beyond DRR pilot projects & building ownership from

governments (ISDR baseline data showing that 90% of DRR/CCA projects are initiated by NGOs)

• Incentives to promote duty bearers’ action on DRR & CCA: e.g. award schemes (Philippines)

Horizontal Integration • Making DRR & CCA useful for development• Addressing root causes of vulnerability: integration into Livelihoods,

Education, Health programmes• DRR & CCA integration into Good Governance - e.g.: Philippines’

rationalised planning system (combines 29 separate planning processes into one)

QUESTIONS

• How to engage the private sector (and how to deal with extractive industries, palm oil Industry, tea plantations, etc)

• How to integrate climate science into DRR interventions (HVCAs, DRR Action plans M&E, etc)

• How to address the new challenges climate change brings to ecosystems

• What should we aim to do: integrate, link, mainstream DRR & CCA?

• How to make DRR & CCA “useful” for development – poverty reduction, social justice and gender equity

Climate Smart approach to DRM involves the integration of three main components:

• tackling exposure to changing hazards and disaster impacts (DRR);

• enhancing adaptive capacity (CCA); • addressing poverty, vulnerability and their causes

(DEVELOPMENT).

OPPORTUNITIES

• 4th Asia Ministerial Meeting on DRR, Incheon, Korea: October 25-28

• United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) - strategic programme framework for the UN country team

• UNESCAP’s Multi‐Hazard Climate Information Initiatives in the Region

• Regional CCA Knowledge Platform• Rockefeller Foundation’s Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience

Network • Asian Program of Regional Capacity Enhancement for Landslide

Impact Mitigation (RECLAIM) led by ADPC• Influence programmes/projects to be implemented through the

Adaptation Funding