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Social capital plays a key role in flood management because when social capital is high, society members are willing to collaborate and invest time and money to develop the community and reduce vulnerability, even if they are not vulnerable. This is proven no better than by Abu Quir, which enjoyed many positive changes after mobilising its social capital.
'[The governments] are engaged and they are committed to work on [disaster preparedness],' says Abu-Swaireh, UNISDR. 'But I wouldn’t say it’s in the top five priorities right now because of a very simple reason: We’ve been lucky in the last decade that we haven’t lived through a Haiti.'...
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.