Community-led policy monitoring for disaster risk reduction

Christian Aid has developed a collection of practice notes that aims to help civil society organisations and communities to better monitor, influence and secure commitment to the Hyogo Framework for Action at the local level by: documenting and analysing the different approaches and tools to community-led policy monitoring that will be needed to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action, making specific recommendations for achieving effective and successful policy monitoring and mainstreaming disaster risk reduction (DRR) at a local level, based on lessons learned from existing policy-monitoring initiatives and case studies.
These practice notes are complemented by, and may be read in conjunction with, a recently published toolkit Monitoring Government Policies, which provides extensive information on how to monitor and influence government policies.
The practice notes are being tested in an 18-months pilot phase conducted in cooperation with the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) and Christian Aid's partners in Africa, Asia and Central America.

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