1. Home
  2. Update

Empowering disaster risk reduction in local communities by benchmarking resilience

Source(s): Institution of Civil Engineers
Upload your content

The upcoming Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Brunel International Lecture Series will explore how proactive and interdisciplinary cooperation between different stakeholders can be developed to support local Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The8-month travelling lecture series will run from June 2016 to January 2018. In addition, a legacy system will remain active and relevant after the 11th Brunel Lecture series draws to a close in early 2018. Eelco H. Dykstra MD has been appointed as the 11th International Brunel Lecturer.

In conjunction with the 11th Brunel International Lecture Series, Daily Impact Emergency Management (DIEM), an Expert Network and Primary Research Group, will also offer highly interactive seminars (half-day) and workshops (full day) that use the DIEM Focused Feedback Methodology. 

This methodology does not only provide a common frame of reference for different stakeholders uasing a scenario-approach to produce a sense of co-ownership, it also generates concrete, consensus-based conclusions and recommendations within and between local communities enabling local resilience and disaster risk reduction.  

This 18-months worldwide project looks for cooperation and linkages with existing or planned initiatives that also seek to establish and engage local communities-of-interest (CoI) in exchanging and benchmarking (examples of) good/best practices, thus creating a wider, trusted community-of-users (CoU) and communities-of-practice (CoP), leading to ongoing and sustainable activity in support of local DRR. 

PLEASE NOTE: Attendees of each lecture and participants in each seminar and workshop will receive a summary of the results of their feedback in the form of a DIEM Focused Feedback Report/Initial Trend Analysis.    

For more information:
ICE: Catherine Cole, International Director, catherine.cole@ice.org.uk  
DIEM: Eelco H. Dykstra, Executive Chairman, eelco.dykstra@diem.nu or dykstra.disaster.stories@gmail.com

Explore further

Themes Structural safety
Share this

Please note: Content is displayed as last posted by a PreventionWeb community member or editor. The views expressed therein are not necessarily those of UNDRR, PreventionWeb, or its sponsors. See our terms of use

Is this page useful?

Yes No Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).