David Peppiatt Manager ProVention Consortium Secretariat

1
Workshop on DisasterAvoidance in Urban Areas of
Africa Lusaka, 5 May 2004
2
ProVention Consortium

• What is ProVention?
• Partnerships
• Policy
• Practice
• Knowledge sharing

3
What is ProVention?
4
Who are the partners ?

• Multi-stakeholders
• Governments committed to supporting disaster risk
  reduction
• Multilateral and regional development banks
• International development and humanitarian
  organisations
• UN agencies
• Academic institutions
• NGOs
• Private sector

5
Rationale of ProVention

• Increasing frequency and severity of disasters
  social, economic and environmental impact on the
  poor
• Growing awareness of the link between disasters,
  vulnerability, poverty and development
• Value of connecting different sectors and
  disciplines through a Consortium initiative

6
Goal and objectives
7
Goal and objectives

• Objectives
• Forging partnerships, linkages and closer
  interaction between members of the Consortium.
• Advocating for disaster risk management amongst
  senior policy makers in international
  organisations, national governments and the
  private sector.
• Developing and demonstrating innovative
  approaches to the practice of disaster risk
  identification/analysis risk reduction and risk
  sharing/transfer.
• Sharing knowledge and information about best
  practices, tools and resources for disaster risk
  management.

8
Partnerships
Forging linkages, partnerships and closer
interaction between members of the ProVention
Consortium

• Private sector
• International Finance Institutions
• Civil society

9
Policy
Advocating for disaster risk management amongst
senior policy makers in international
organisations, national governments and the
private sector

• Internal policy reform amongst ProVention members
• Policy reform of donors and International Finance
  Institutions

10
ProVention activities Work Plan 2003-2006
Developing and demonstrating innovative
approaches to the practice of disaster risk
management

• Reducing Flood Risk in Africa Strengthening
  community flood resilience in Sudan through local
  partnerships
• Urban Disaster Risk in Africa Analysis of urban
  risk accumulation in 7 African countries and the
  development of risk reduction strategies
• Handbook for damage and needs assessments
• Hotspots project Identification and analysis of
  global disaster risk hotspots
• Measuring Mitigation Development of guidelines
  for assessing natural hazard risk and net
  benefits of mitigation

11
ProVention activities Work Plan 2003-2006

• Learning Lessons from Disaster Recovery
  Disseminating the lessons learned from recovery
  efforts following five major natural disasters -
  regional workshops, policy guidelines, good
  practice handbook and community survey methods
  manual.
• Assessing Risk Improving the methodology for
  participatory Vulnerability Capacity Assessment
  at the community level.
• Regional Risk Transfer Application of micro
  finance and micro insurance as instruments to
  help poor communities manage risk and protect
  livelihoods.
• Private Sector Partnerships on Risk Management
  Forging links with the insurance industry on
  advancing risk management in developing
  countries.
• Applied Grants Programme II Support of
  innovative disaster reduction research projects
  and promotion of young professionals in
  developing countries.

12
ProVention and Urban Risk

• ProVention provided support to
• The Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative
  (EMI)
• The Protecting Critical Infrastructure project
  development of guidelines for strengthening
  social infrastructure, such as schools and health
  facilities (OAS, PAHO)
• Building Safer Cities Conference at World Bank
  in December 2002

13
Proposed Role of ProVention in Strategies for
Disaster Avoidance in Urban Areas of Africa

• Facilitate linkages with
• EMI, Red Cross, African Development Bank, Asian
  Disaster Preparedness Centre (Urban Disaster
  Management Programme)
• Influence policy African Development Bank, local
  governments (through Red Cross), NGOs
• Dissemination of project findings on ProVention
  website, through Newsletter, through partner
  organisations

14
Ideas for next project phase (1)

• Putting risk reduction into practice
• Identification/mapping of potential stakeholders
  and clarification of their role.
• Development of a framework for risk analysis.
• Support the development of risk assessment
  practice in each urban area.
• Development of risk reduction and management
  plans for each urban centre. Decision on focus
  preparedness for response, structural or
  non-structural mitigation, awareness raising.
• Preparation and implementation of risk reduction
  action plans by stakeholders.

15
Ideas for next project phase (2)

• II. Linking Risk Reduction and Development
• Advocacy efforts aimed at integrating risk
  reduction within existing city development plans
  and strategies (e.g. land use planning, improving
  building standards, relocation of at-risk
  population).
• Lobbying for better environmental management
  (improved water and sanitation, solid waste
  management, improved drainage, reduce
  pollution).
• Integration of risk reduction within broader
  poverty reduction strategies.

16
Ideas for next project phase (3)

• III. Dissemination, knowledge sharing and
  networking
• Develop a dissemination programme to encourage
  and support urban risk reduction work in other
  countries in this area.
• Organization of inter-city exchanges.
• Identification of an African institution to
  manage the Urban Disaster Risk Network.

17
www.proventionconsortium.org