6th Regional Training Course On Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction Into National Development Process

Course overview

Disaster risk within a country has its roots in development decisions that do not adequately address disaster concerns, and the resulting disasters are coming at the cost of development and poverty reduction. By not considering disaster risk in development planning, new risk could be unintentionally created or existing ones exacerbated through investments in infrastructure and public services, and through improper planning and regulation.

Thus it is essential that the process of development planning identifies and analyzes the underlying causes of risk, and factors in measures for risk reduction. By Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into National Development Processes, disaster risk considerations would be factored into and would made integral part of development processes as well as in priority sectors such as agriculture, education, health, housing and roads.

This course has been developed to enhance the capacity of government officials, development partners and stakeholders involved in development planning to mainstream DRR into development activities and practices.

Development process of the course

The process of development of this course included engagement of technical experts from various sectors, and draw upon extensive experience and examples of countries demonstrating application of mainstreaming approach into national and sectoral development planning processes. Comments and suggestions generated from the four previous conduct of the course were considered to ensure relevance and appropriateness of the content.

Course goal

The goal of the course is to enhance understanding on mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the development planning process, in order to build the capacities of government officials, development partners and stakeholders to implement disaster resilient development. The specific objectives of the course include:

• To increase awareness among participants on the need to mainstream DRR into the development planning processes,
• To enhance the capacity of participants on ‘how to’ mainstream DRR concerns into the national, sub-national, sectoral development planning processes,
• To provide a platform for experience sharing, discussion and interactive professional exchange on MDRD application and practice.