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2. Climate Smart Disaster Risk
Management Approach
An Overview
Presented at the Christian Aid – Regional Consultation on Resilience – South Asia
06-08 Feb 2013, Kathmandu, Nepal
3. Why a Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management
approach?
• The type, frequency and intensity of extreme events are
expected to change as Earth’s climate changes (IPCC
2007)
• This is delivering a catalogue of disaster shocks and
livelihoods stresses to the poorest and most vulnerable
countries and communities.
• Development efforts at all scales must become resilient to
climate change and disasters in ways that appreciate
increasing uncertainty.
4. Characteristics of a Climate Smart Approach
• To respond, disaster risk managers must:
Triangulate local experiences of changing disaster risks with the
evidence of the climatological and meteorological community
Tackle people’s exposure to disasters.
Help to create adaptive capacity among people, communities and
organisations that helps them deal with surprises and new risks
Tackle the underlying drivers of vulnerability and poverty unless
disaster risk will continue to increase, recognising the role of
climate change in exacerbating these.
Ensure that disaster risk management interventions are
environmentally sustainable and do not unnecessarily emit
greenhouse gases
5. Overview of the Development of the Approach
• Development of the approach through national and
regional consultations in 11 at risk countries in South East
Asia, South Asia and East Africa and 3 cases studies.
• Expert Review in February – mix of practitioners,
academics and decision makers – sought to simplify the
approach in order to operationalise it.
• Together we identified 3 key pillars:
I. Tackle Changing Disaster Risk and Uncertainties
II. Enhance Adaptive Capacity
III. Address Poverty, Vulnerability and their Structural
Causes
6. Pillar I: Tackle Changing Disaster Risk and
Uncertainties
• Supports priority areas of HFA highlighting importance of
collaboration between multiple actors
• Focuses on improved information on risk – detailed risk
assessment, based on multiple source of knowledge
• Increased access to information by all stakeholders-
education, EWS, Information dissemination
• Integrating climate change as key consideration.
7. Pillar I: Tackle 1a: Strengthen collaboration and integration
between diverse stakeholders working on
Changing disasters, climate and development
Disaster Risk
1b: Periodically assess the effects of climate
and change on current and future disaster risks
Uncertainties and uncertainties
1c: Integrate knowledge of changing risks
and uncertainties into planning, policy and
programme design to reduce the vulnerability
and exposure of people’s lives and livelihoods
1d: Increase access of all stakeholders to
information and support services concerning
changing disaster risks, uncertainties and
broader climate impacts
8. Pillar II: Enhance Adaptive Capacity
• Adaptive capacity within this approach can be understood
as our ability to manage and create sustainable change.
• Promoting adaptive capacity for social systems means
that institutions and networks learn and use knowledge
and experience, integrate uncertainty, accept non-
equilibrium, create flexibility in problem solving and
balance power among interest groups.
• From our literature (Bahadur et al, 2010) review we have
identified 10 Characteristics of resilience which promote
adaptive capacity.
9. Pillar II: Enhance 2a: Strengthen the ability of people,
Adaptive Capacity organisations and networks to experiment
and innovate
Cont
2b: Promote regular learning and reflection
High Levels of Diversity
to improve the implementation of policies and
Flexible and Effective Institutions
practices
Cross Scalar Perspective
Integrating Uncertainty 2c: Ensure policies and practices to tackle
Ensuring Community Involvement changing disaster risk are flexible,
Promoting Equity integrated across sectors and scale and
Accepting Non- Equilibrium have regular feedback loops
Promoting Learning
Preparedness, Planning & 2d: Use tools and methods to plan for
Readiness uncertainty and unexpected events
Social Values and Structures
10. Pillar III: Address Poverty, Vulnerability and
their Structural Causes
• Focused on MDGs which highlight agreed goals for
poverty reduction, builds on Pressure and Release model
by Wisner ( Root causes underscore the importance of
access to power , structure and resources). A lack of skill
and institutions (organizations) coupled with macro
process increases vulnerable.
• Sought to include key drivers of poverty: social, political,
economic & climatic processes.
• Low greenhouse gases & Sustainability.
McGray et
al. 2007
11. 3a: Promote more socially just and
equitable economic systems
Pillar III: Address
Poverty, 3b: Forge partnerships to ensure the
Vulnerability rights and entitlements of people to
access basic services, productive
and their assets and common property
Structural resources
Causes 3c: Empower communities and local
authorities to influence the decisions of
national governments, NGOs,
international and private sector
organisations and to promote
accountability and transparency
3d: Promote environmentally
sensitive and climate smart
development
12. Thank You from the SCR team!
Strengthening Climate Resilience (SCR) website:
www.csdrm.org