Disaster risk reduction products and processes: Knowledge sharing for place-and contextspecific actions

This policy brief analyzes how scientific evidence can be incorporated into policymaking at local, regional, and national levels through specific disaster risk reduction (DRR) action-oriented products and approaches that draw on context-specific, diverse, and plural knowledge.

The brief presents the following recommendations:

• To encourage place- and context-specific development of DRR processes, products, and approaches that enable impactful risk reduction actions and support collaboration between research, data, and local policymaking communities. It is essential to embed specific users, including local communities and practitioners, in the co-design and co-production of these approaches and products.
• To promote the adoption of local science advisory mechanisms that help make science useful, relevant, and credible by integrating diverse forms of knowledge into DRR products. By leveraging new technologies, these mechanisms can support the identification, analysis, and dissemination of evidence for policy development and evaluation, bridging technical capabilities with the diverse expertise and needs of real-world users.