Maggie Gibson

Including disaster risk reduction and resilience in post-2015 development goals - what are the options?
Hello again I'd like to emphasis the issue of aging and lifecourse development as an important consideration to keep in mind as goals and indicators are developed. Disaggregaton of data by age, including age categories across adulthood, is esse…

Comment by Maggie Gibson November 2012
How are groups with special needs best recognized and their knowledge harnessed for their participation in the different priority area for resilience?
Hello all Just returning to this dialogue, and I'm again impressed by the wisdom that is being shared. Also want to say thanks to Loy for an off-line conversation we had last week about issues of vulnerability, capacity and the need for includi…

Comment by Maggie Gibson October 2012
What are major challenges to action on disaster risk reduction and building resilience? How do we tackle them?
Hello As well as challenges to action on disaster risk reduction that can be considered "top-down", there are "bottom up" challenges that reflect the difficulties inherent in engaging people in routine health-promotion and risk-…

Comment by Maggie Gibson October 2012
What are opportunities & challenges in the consultation process described in the background paper?
The application of communication technology to facilitate the discussion as we are doing in this consultation is a great opportunity. One of the challenges is to consider the implications of population aging, a world-wide trend, for DRR. It will be …

Comment by Maggie Gibson August 2012
What are your expectations from the consultation process towards the development of the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction?
Hello and thank you for this important initiative. I'm hopeful that these consultations will result in progress on the "how to" aspect of good DRR practices, with the goal of engaging stakeholders across a wide variety of sectors in D…

Comment by Maggie Gibson August 2012

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