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Sri Lanka has faced a number of disasters in the recent past, including droughts, floods, tsunamis, and landslides. Combining climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures is needed to achieve sustainable development and enhance disaster resilience in the future.
'It seems that in the future, this disparity in the availability of water within the country would become worse; wet-zone receiving more rain and the dry-zone receiving less rain, than what is received currently. The obvious solution is to develop some means to take the surplus water from the wet-zone to the water-deficit dry-zone,' writes Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri...
'Climate change is a complex challenge and well-designed policies for adaptation are necessary to face the impacts of it. Adaptation is a dynamic process of adjustment in response to changing conditions of climate. A pragmatic approach towards adaptation policy has to fulfil a few essential steps,' writes Dr Athula Senaratn in The Island and he goes on to elaborate on these steps...
'Mainstreaming rainwater harvesting systems as a Disaster Risk Reduction Tool, funded by the USAID, the project aspires to mainstream the viability of rainwater harvesting systems as a practical widespread DRR tool'...
'To facilitate and strengthen this development process, and preserve the environmental and cultural heritage of the north, a Strategic Environmental Assessment integrating disaster risk reduction aspects is a vital component', said Professor Buddhi Marambe, at the launch of the ISEA North project in Colombo earlier this week...
Voluntary Commitments
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.