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Animals: build community resilience with innovative solutions
Description
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) in partnership with the Chihuahua Aldama District Municipality of Mexico is hosting a pioneering event on the innovative and important role animal welfare plays towards building community resilience within the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (HFA2) and post-Hyogo recommendations. Animals play a central role in the lives of people in communities across the world, many of them vulnerable to disasters. The contribution of animals to many development issues – such as nutrition, food security, agricultural output, financial and social functions – is enormous. Their indirect contribution is often undervalued when attempts are made to understand the impact of disasters.
WSPA is a global animal welfare organization that recognises promoting responses that protect the lives of millions of animals, we also protect communities’ livelihoods and food security, and build ultimate resilience to disasters.
The inclusion of animal welfare into risk reduction measures and programming can allow for innovative and solution focused approaches that meet the needs of communities who rely on their animals for economic wellbeing, social status and companionship. WSPA will highlight in this side event how working in partnership with governments, such as the Chihuahua Aldama District Municipality of Mexico has helped support the inclusion and roll out of these solutions towards building stronger, more resilient communities in the Chihuahua region. While great strides are being taken in developing new approaches in effective risk reduction, animal welfare is yet to be recognised as a key solution to many current challenges.
The side event aims to demonstrate how this can be integrated successfully through proven and effective approaches.
Background Papers
- Animals and people in disasters (110.02 kB)
Presentations
- Presentation speakers list (184.39 kB)
