DRR Mainstreaming into Sectors

Guidance and illustrations on DRR mainstreaming

This section aims to illustrate examples of DRR mainstreaming as a guidance for planers, managers and implementers of projects and interventions of different sectors. Meainstreaming refers to the consideration of the three dimensions; Disasters Risk Reduction (DRR), climate change (CC) and environmental (E) issues since these are closely interlinked. For simplification reasons hereinafter the term “DRR mainstreaming” is used, but it covers also climate change and environmental aspects.

Tackling risks emanating from climate change, environmental degradation and natural hazards in an integrated manner is one of the greatest challenges of today. These risks significantly influence the resilience of systems and communities. Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to those risks due to their limited coping capacities. Furthermore, the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, avoid environmental degradation and prevent the building-up of new risks is a key challenge for all countries.

Mainstreaming DRR is crucial to development and humanitarian interventions in order to protect poverty reduction and development gains and to prevent new risks that may arise due to development and humanitarian activities (“do-no-harm”). Mainstreaming DRR is important for all projects located in a hazard-prone area (see disaster risk map).Development and humanitarian aid activities, which have an impact on land use (e.g. agriculture, fishery, forestry, water and sanitation, infrastructure construction, resource management), need special attention. Other important sectors are migration (e.g. shelter management) or education (e.g. school construction but also school disaster management). DRR considerations should be integrated in planning and operational processes from an early stage on. SDC makes informed decisions as to whether or not disaster risks are an issue in a specific context and how these risks can be reduced.

Mainstreaming DRR refers to: 

• A systematic analysis of disaster, climate change and environmental risks.

• The integration of appropriate measures to reduce disaster risks, climate change effects, and environmental degradation.

• Structure of this section's sub-pages, i.e. sectors
  

An overview of  DRR mainstreaming into sectors / contexts  is given in this section and related sub-pages as illustrated with the colours of the mind map overview below:

• Numbers (1 to 9) refer to a sub-page, which are typical sectors or entry points to mainstream DRR

• Colors refer to sectors / topics where further information can be found.

Each sub-section i.e. sector, contains:

• a list of typical project of the sector under "Types of projects"

• an overview of typically relevant problems in this sector under "Problems, impacts of disasters"

• the rational for DRR mainstreaming in this sector under "Aims of mainstreaming DRR, climate change and envirnment"

• an overview of measures for DRR mainstreaming in this sector under "Typical measures"

• further information for tools, guidances, best practices etc. under "web-resources"