Who does what where exercise in disaster risk reduction in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Multi-stakeholder and inter-agency platforms can help mobilize knowledge, skills and resources required for mainstreaming DRR into development and emergency policies, plans and programmes by providing coordination, analysis and advice. This updated version of 3W publication provides an overview of who does what and where in the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and represents an outcome of a 'who does what where' exercise on the International Day for DRR in October 2015. 

This version, finalized in May 2016, now features 39 agency/institutional profiles detailing what DRR practitioners do in different locations in the country. The publication further includes 14 maps developed in QGiS open source software in order to provide spatial analysis of agencies’ geographical presence and focus areas of their involvement. 

This type of analysis provide DRR practitioners with a better overview of where and in what thematic areas to target their ongoing and future DRR interventions. The introduction of spatial guidelines and the enhanced collaboration of policy-makers, scientists, urban planners, engineers, architects, development workers and civil society, lays the ground for the adoption of comprehensive approaches and innovative solutions for any of DRR related efforts.