Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015
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Voluntary standards
Voluntary standards have the potential to become a transformational force in strengthening accountability. They can help raise awareness and engagement in risk management by offering simple and agreed metrics put forward in a language and formats familiar to businesses, local governments and communities (UNECE, 2014
UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe). 2014,Standards and Normative Mechanisms for Disaster Risk Management, Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. Currently risk management standards use tools, indicators and language that can enable diverse stakeholders to pool expertise and resources and effectively ground both business strategies and policy-making objectives. But promoting and widening the reach of the transformative energy of voluntary standards requires investment by both governments and the private sector (UNECE, 2014
UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe). 2014,Standards and Normative Mechanisms for Disaster Risk Management, Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. These investments will allow a meaningful comparison across geographies and time frames on the basis of agreed and clear metrics. Even without a formal certification process, their successful implementation can generate not just a sense of shared responsibility but also real shared value (UNECE, 2014
UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe). 2014,Standards and Normative Mechanisms for Disaster Risk Management, Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. In order to harness the power of voluntary standards, governments can play a crucial role in promoting and widening their reach by making them available to and encouraging their application in small and medium enterprises, universities and vocational institutions, and by convening the standardization community for disaster riskrelated consultations and decision-making processes (UNECE, 2014
UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe). 2014,Standards and Normative Mechanisms for Disaster Risk Management, Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. Setting targets and monitoring progress
Accountability also depends on some form of monitoring, evaluation and reporting as well as benchmarking and target-setting. Another critical means of transformation, therefore, would be to strengthen the monitoring of progress in a way that increases transparency and accountability. There are a number of ways in which this could happen.
The first is to set global and national targets for the reduction of disaster risks, together with understandable and measurable indicators. As disaster losses are only indicators of development failures, monitoring trends in those losses can be a powerful tool for measuring the transformation of development. Measuring whether disaster losses and impacts are trending up or down can provide insight not only into the progress of disaster risk reduction, but also into the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Secondly, in order to capture the full scope of progress, it is necessary to monitor risk management outputs not just across the disaster risk reduction sector but across all development sectors with respect to whether the different
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