Helena Molin Valdes

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 all, excellent comments and summary. I am still curious if any of you could provide some experience on how to provide better incentives for local government to prioritize disaster risk reduction and resilience. And hence invest resources - how…

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes March 2013
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
First of all I want to introduce and thank our moderator for this dialogue, Bernadia Irawati Tjandradewi. Bernadia has a long history with the CityNet secretariat and is currently based in the City of Yokohama. As a partner she worked with UNISDR t…

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes March 2013
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
All good points. For the differentiated quantative risk assessment methodology that Tomojeet mentions: does any of you have an example where this is applied, and in that case, can you share with us? Helena

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes October 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
Thank you, Jose Luis Doy la bienvenida también a aquellos que quisieran hacer comentarios en español, o francés

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes October 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
Thank you for your contributions: Jalilur touching on the difficulty of defining indicators to measure the knowledge of disadvantaged groups inclusivements- and how even exsiting legislation is acted upon, or not. John and Ansel calling on 'd…

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes October 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
Thank you I am now going to a funeral for one of my best friends, also from the disaster reduction community. She fought a cancer and in the end fell offer for other organs failure sue to treatment. This is what happens in society as well: we treat …

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes October 2012
How to make women and girls the visible force of resilience?
I welcome your comments also on the current topic: how to best address needs of groups with special needs and ensure their participation as a force.

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes October 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
24 Oct- Today is the UN Day and of the World Development Information Day Thanks for the comments posted so far. One critical point you raised is the need to integrate the organization of resilience and disaster risk reduction within and among all …

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes October 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
In addition, please focus on what you recommend as top three issues that should be addressed in the post-2015 Framework for DRR to address groups with special needs.

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes October 2012
How to make women and girls the visible force of resilience?
Thank you Shakeb, Abend and Joseph for your example and proposals. I repeat Loy's suggestion from the previous round in this dialogue: please revisit the current Hyogo Framework for Action at https://www.unisdr.org/we/coordinate/hfa Now is the…

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes October 2012
How to make women and girls the visible force of resilience?
Thank you to all those who posted comments on the International Day site, to Loy Rego, Anohar John, Getnet Abebe, Santiago Vaca, Chrsitian and others (you find it at: https://www.unisdr.org/2012/iddr) I want to quote, Mara Bun, from the Green Cross,…

Comment by Helena Molin Valdes October 2012

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