This short brief, Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management: In brief, explores how the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach provides a guide to strategic planning, programme development and policymaking and should be used to assess the effectiveness of existing DRM policies, projects and programmes in the context of a changing climate.
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This project and publication, Ability of Local Multi-Stakeholder Action to Catalyze Shifts in Program and Policy Environment towards Mainstreaming DRR CCA, studies the effectiveness of Local Multi-Stakeholder Action as an enabling factor for mainstreaming DRR- CCA in post disaster programs and ultimately in state and national policies.
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Katie Dietrich from START reflects on the key lessons that have emerged from the CDKN/ START research programme on climate-smart disaster risk management in South Asia.
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Mihir Bhatt, CDKN’s Senior Advisor in India, considers what we can learn about resilience from CDKN’s South Asia research programme.
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Sumana Bhattacharya, ICSD, India looks at how the disconnect between disaster management and climate change adaptation is posing a risk for development in India.
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