Incentives for reducing disaster risk in urban areas

This document summarizes experiences of three case study areas—Da Nang in Viet Nam,the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, and Naga City in the Philippines—in incentives for disaster risk reduction. Targeted at national and city governments, this summary document:

• sets out what incentives are and how they are currently used in the three casestudy urban areas to encourage investment in disaster risk reduction;
• identifies actions to establish and foster an enabling environment for a successful incentive program;
• sets out the key considerations for the design of a successful incentive;

While these incentives are not designed with disaster risk reduction as the primary purpose, many of them have either indirectly contributed toreducing disaster risk or, with minor modification, could directly contribute to risk reduction.

This document is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO licence.