Outline

• Why a Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach?

• Development of the CSDRM Approach• The ‘Three Pillars’ of the Approach• Applications and uses of the Approach

Why Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management approach?

• The type, frequency and/ or intensity of extreme events are expected to change as Earth’s climate changes (IPCC 2007).

• Increase in disaster shocks and livelihoods stresses, often affecting the poorest people.

• People are being exposed to changing risks. for which they have little experience or local knowledge

• Development efforts at all scales must become resilient to climate change and disasters in ways that take account of increasing uncertainty

• Capacity development of local governments and authorities are essential for dealing with this uncertainly.

What is Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management?

CSDRM is:

an integrated social development and disaster risk management approach that aims simultaneously to tackle

• changing disaster risks, • enhance adaptive capacity, • address poverty, exposure, vulnerability and their

structural causes and • promote environmentally sustainable development

in a changing climate

Strengthening Climate Resilience: a new initiative

• DFID funded initiative began in October 2009.• Led by a consortium of Institute of Development Studies (lead agency),

Christian Aid and Plan International

• Strengthening Climate Resilience programme is working in 10 countries:• South-East Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines (led by Plan

International)• South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka (led by Christian

Aid)• East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan (led by Christian Aid)

Development of the approach: an engaging process

Iterative development: following expert group meeting at IDS in Feb 2010

Co-creation: • Total of 14 consultations in 12 countries• Over 500 disaster, climate and development policy-makers and practitioners involved from over 100 organisations • Live editing sessions• Ideas based on sharing good practices

Validation in complex environments: • Three detailed case studies looking at applying the ideas in practice – Sri Lanka, Orissa, Mekong River Commission

The Three Pillars of the Approach:detailed view

followed by summary

Three “pillars” as foundation of approach

1Tackle changing disaster risks

2Enhance adaptive capacity

3Address poverty & vulnerability

Integration of actors working on disasters, climate & development

Increase ability of actors to innovate & experiment

Promote socially just & equitable economic systems

Assess effects of CC on disaster risks

Promote learning to improve policies and practice

Forge partnerships for rights to access basic services, assets

Integrate knowledge of changing risks into vulnerability reduction

Ensure flexible & integrated policy & practice across sectors and scales

Empower communities & local authorities to influence the powerful

Increase knowledge & support on risk & climate impacts

Plan for uncertainty and unexpected events

Promote environmental & climate-smart development

Climate Smart DRM

The CSDRM approach builds on • disaster risk management, • climate change adaptation, and • development concepts and approaches so as to support progress on the HFA and to promote disaster-resilient communities

Next two slides show the Pressure and Release Model (“Crunch model”) to illustrate links of Pillar 3 to Pillars 1 & 2

National & International

Political Economy

Power relations

Demographics

Conflicts & War

Environmental Trends

Debt Crises

Etc

SocialStructures & Power Systems

Class

Gender

Ethnicity

Caste

Other power relationships

Hazard

Flood

Cyclone

Earthquake

Tsunami

Volcanic eruption

Drought

Landslide

Biological

DISASTER

Vulnerability component

Livelihood & its resilience

Base-line status

Well-being

Self-protection

Social Protection

Governance

SOCIAL

FRAME

“Crunch” Pressure and Release (PAR) model (Cannon, adapted from At Risk)

ROOT

CAUSES

National & International

Political Economy

Power relations

Environmental Trends

Debt Crises

Etc

SocialStructures & Power Systems

Class

Gender

Ethnicity

Caste

Other power relationships

Hazard

Flood

Cyclone

Drought

Landslide

Biological

DISASTER

Vulnerability component

Livelihood & its resilience

Base-line status

Well-being

Self-protection

Social Protection

Governance

SOCIAL

FRAME

ROOT

CAUSES

Climate change makes hazards worse

Poverty hits environmentCC undermines livelihoods

Application and use of the Approach

Applying the Approach

• The Approach seeks to guide planning and evaluation of existing DRM policies, projects or programmes, as well as inform advocacy.

• Approach is not a ‘checklist’ - but offers guidance on how to evaluate current interventions and identify how to change practice and policy for better development outcomes.

• This should be applied in a ‘dynamic and hands-on manner’ to enable local governments and authorities to integrate multiple dimensions / considerations (pillars) to make their initiatives adaptive to the changing climate

Lessons from field research

• Promoting the integration requires a range of ‘soft’ skills• require staff investment and must be understood in terms of

building people’s capabilities to create change.• Dialogue and access to decision making are critical at all

levels • Creating spaces for a range of stakeholders to access

information and participate in decision making • This requires partnership and confidence between

stakeholders.

 Climate change can be a driver for greater integration across sectors, intuitions, policies and programmes

• Different type of “window of opportunity”• Adaptation funding – a curse or an opportunity?

More information

Strengthening Climate Resilience

http://community.eldis.org/.59d49986/

CSDRM www.csdrm.org

Terry Cannon t.cannon@ids.ac.uk Project Director

Katie Harris k.hariss@ids.ac.uk Project Manager

Paula Silva Villanueva P.SilvaVillanueva@ids.ac.uk Planning, monitoring and evaluation (PM&E)