The main focus of the project was a desktop-based vulnerability assessment of road segments in a region of the Republic of Georgia particularly prone to the impacts of severe weather, especially in the form of landslide related events.
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Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management
GIDRM
Networks and Others
Mission
The Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management (GIDRM) was founded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and is implemented by the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The project was set up to strengthen the German contribution to improved disaster risk management worldwide and to support our partners with the implementation of the Sendai Framework.
In short, the Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management supports partner countries in their efforts against extreme natural and weather-related events, to safeguard development and to protect lives.
Disaster Reduction Goal
Our Goal: to foster practical coherence for resilience. With practical coherence we consider an approach to HOW coherence can be achieved. More specifically, we look at three processes: planning, implementing and reporting as key areas for coherence, which will lead to increased resilience - the ultimate goal.
In its first phase (2013 - 2018) the project had aimed at matching the demand for specialized services and technologies ‘Made in and with Germany’. To this end, it brought together German and regional experts from the public and private sector, academia and civil society to facilitate mutual learning across regions and to develop and pilot innovative solutions.
In its second and current phase (2018 - 2021) the focus has shifted to highlight the increasing need for more coherence in planning, implementation and reporting regarding the global agendas (meaning the Sendai Framework, but also the Agenda 2030, the Paris Climate Agreement and the New Urban Agenda).
Furthermore, we believe to effectively reduce the impacts of disasters, risk factors have to be identified and tailor-made solutions developed. To achieve this, it is important to raise risk awareness, to encourage knowledge-sharing between experts and decision makers and to create space for innovation across regions.
DRR activities
Policies and Programmes in DRR
GIDRM identifies national and subnational examples of successful agenda-coherence. With respect to the implementation of global agendas, we define agenda-coherence as concerted state action in all relevant sectors and at all relevant levels in order to achieve both common and respective goals of all agendas more efficiently and effectively.
Websites
http://www.gidrm.net
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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This paper discusses why we need to be more risk-informed and how we can become more risk-informed in international cooperation. We are facing increasingly complex, interconnected, and unpredictable risks.
GIDRM aims to strengthen the capacities of decision-makers by making methods for risk-informed development (RID) interventions available. In Lesotho, GIDRM is piloting a climate risk-assessment tool with the water sector as an entry point for RID.
Risks are increasingly cascading across social, economic and environmental systems, making them impossible to address retrospectively. The level of systemic risk is about to become a potential existential threat to current social-economic development.
GIDRM addresses complex and systemic risk by applying the principle of risk-informed development in key sectors. Public investment in resilient infrastructure emerges as a sensitive variable for recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
This study has been conducted in the Caraga region of northeast Mindanao, in order to better understand the interlinkages between coherent planning and conflict and to explore the possibilities and limitations of coherence approaches in conflict-s
In Germany, several initiatives to disseminate public warnings and behavioural advices by government agencies and organizations responsible for safety and security directly to the affected people via smartphone application
An affordable and community-based approach with high potential for transferability.