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- Summary:
- This document focuses on the increasing linkages between disasters and under-nutrition, particularly how disasters accentuate and magnify the underlying structural forces that cause malnutrition. Action Contre la Faim (ACF) advocates for integrated disaster risk management (DRM) at the community level, moving beyond the humanitarian mandate of saving lives to include the protection of livelihoods and sustainable development as a means to address malnutrition, poverty, and vulnerability to disasters. ACF defines and analyses disaster risk using a sustainable livelihoods approach with particular emphasis on malnutrition and how communities access and control the factors that determine their livelihood choices. The document highlights how vulnerability to disasters and under-nutrition is often related to disparities in power, a lack of self-determination, poor access to markets, and the existence of institutions and policies that neglect certain segments of a population. The next section focuses on the interaction between household cycles of risk and broader contexts of risk. Households plagued by poverty generally exist in locations facing the greatest threat from natural hazards. These populations are also most likely to engage in risky livelihood strategies that increase their vulnerability to disaster, and the potential of falling deeper into poverty. This dynamic is further problematic because it is occurring within the broader context of climate change, environmental degradation, rapid population growth, unplanned urbanization, poor governance, and increasingly volatile market forces. ACF calls for integrating DRM into its responses to under-nutrition and disaster situations by understanding the dynamics of both processes in order to proactively work to lessen their impacts. ACF’s five DRM objectives are to establish contingency planning in all operations, to develop a culture of safety, to reduce vulnerability and build resilience to disasters by hazard-proofing livelihoods and ensuring equitable access to socioeconomic opportunities, to build institutional capacity at the local level, and to minimize key drivers of risk by integrating climate change adaptation, sustainable resource management, social protection, and disaster risk reduction into ACF’s activities. ACF also places significant value on the role of communities in these processes, advocating for the incorporation of indigenous knowledge in the managing of disaster risks, adopting no-regret strategies that positively impact communities whether or not they face disaster, and building their adaptive capacity by securing their access to information. ( English )
- Subject:
- Disaster Risk Management ( English )
- Scope and Content:
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY p. II; Acknowledgements p. IV; List of acronyms p. IV; 1. INTRODUCTION: PURPOSE OF THE POLICY p. 5; 2. DEFINING RISK DYNAMICS p. 6; 2.1 Disaster risk p. 6; 2.2 Disaster risk management p. 6; 3. DISASTER RISK CHALLENGES p. 8; 3.1 Risk for households… p. 8; 3.2 …is driven by the context… p. 9; 3.3 …with a worsening exposure to hazards... p. 10; 3.4 ...driven by deteriorating long-term trends. p. 10; 4. ACF INTEGRATED DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT p. 12; 4.1 Doing the right thing… p. 12; 4.2 …at the right time… p. 16; 4.3 ...in the right way. p. 17; 5. BUILDING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE – THE DRM INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGY p. 19; 6. CONCLUSION p. 22; Annex 1: Glossary p. 23; Annex 2: ACF Charter and 2010-2015 Strategic Framework p. 24; Annex 3: Hazard Classification p. 25; Annex 4: An integrated conceptual framework for maternal and child undernutrition p. 26; Annex 5: The impacts of climate change and areas of high risk p. 27; Annex 6: Overview of previous DRR and CCA projects of ACF p. 28; Annex 7: International codes and initiatives acknowledged by ACF p. 29; Annex 8: Hyogo Framework for Action p. 30; Annex 9: Integrating DRM within programme and project cycles p. 31; Annex 10: Recommended DRM action around the disaster cycle p. 32; Annex 11: Characteristics of community approaches along a spectrum of DRM action p. 33; NOTES and REFERENCES p. 34 ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Mitchell, A. (2011). Disaster risk management for communities. Action Contre la Faim (ACF) International.
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