Himadri Maitra

How do we:
- motivate Local Government leaders to invest in DRR and resilience
- encourage national actions to improve DRR implementation at local level
- enhance collaboration between citizen groups and local governments for effective risk reduction
Dear Friends, I would like to share my experience as follows: Global settings or Climate Change issues have created enough visibility in the international community. It is a vast subject and temporarily and spatially much greater issue than DRR, as…

Comment by Himadri Maitra March 2013
Linking DRR and CCA in policy, programming and institutional partnership
Dear all, Lot of discussions are going on to integrate DRR and CCA in development. But at operational level it seems that these discussions have make no fruitful impact. The visibility of CCA and DRR is less than other pressing issues (means these a…

Comment by Himadri Maitra December 2012
Including disaster risk reduction and resilience in post-2015 development goals - what are the options?
Dear all, Once again! Perception of disaster risk is a vague idea to people whose daily livelihood is under stress and at risk. But only poverty is not the vulnerability. Poverty can be reduced by funding but that cannot reduce the vulnerability. Th…

Comment by Himadri Maitra November 2012
Including disaster risk reduction and resilience in post-2015 development goals - what are the options?
Dear all, Nature is the main source of our livelihood and assets which in turn are the main risk reduction options of mankind. Nature, on the other hand, is the main source of different shocks and hazards which a resilient society is able to mitigat…

Comment by Himadri Maitra November 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
Dear All, From the discussions above, I am enriched. Different processes are discussed. I can understand VCA and its utility in identifying ‘Groups of Special Needs’. It is possible to collect disaggregated data regarding these groups. But the ques…

Comment by Himadri Maitra October 2012
How to make women and girls the visible force of resilience?
One more thing, Gender Mainstreaming is more bottom-up approach than development and empowerment processes, which are normally top-up command and control mechanism initiated by Government and Legislation. Himadri

Comment by Himadri Maitra October 2012
How to make women and girls the visible force of resilience?
Dear All, I would like to furnish two cases of women development and empowerment. 1) In India, Self-Help Groups are reckoned as Co-operatives within a Co-operative. Women focused SHG initiative is taken to enhance economic, health, nutrition, educat…

Comment by Himadri Maitra October 2012
What top three elements should be addressed in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?
Dear Friends, My priorities are: 1) Climate change adaptation, DRR and Development activities should be integrated. 2) Reduce underlying Risk Factor with a special emphasis on Perception of Risk in risk analysis. 3) Integration of Scientific knowled…

Comment by Himadri Maitra October 2012
What are major challenges to action on disaster risk reduction and building resilience? How do we tackle them?
HFA mentions underlying causes of risk. This underlying causes are said to be direct consequences of political and economic environment of a country. It is a subject of political economy. Power relation, socio-economic structure, availability of re…

Comment by Himadri Maitra October 2012
How do we accelerate HFA implementation and enhance the momentum for DRR in the remaining three years till 2015?
1) Humanitarian crises may in no small way be due to planner’s inability to anticipate potential hazards and anticipate their significance. Reticence to sensitive and effective planning and decision making due to psychological and institutional cons…

Comment by Himadri Maitra October 2012
Key achievements in building resilience since the adoption of the HFA in 2005
Dear All, Human being has been doing DRR from the very begining of civilisation, it is all those activities through which we survive. So, HFA or no-HFA we would do some activities mentioned above. But HFA has a positive role, particularly in case of…

Comment by Himadri Maitra October 2012
What are your expectations from the first online dialogue as a whole?
Sorry, I am late. My expectations are: 1) Inclusion of DRR, Development and Climate Adaptation in the same frame of action. 2) Clear understanding of Disaster Management, DRR and CBDRR. Funding agencies and INGOs are implementing projects in the nam…

Comment by Himadri Maitra September 2012

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