Hi John,
Am home now - got home last night.
Am completely blown away by Fraser. I wouldn't have understood before.
Anna
PS That link at the bottom may confuse some people as the end has been cut off.
At 13:26 27/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>This new working paper bt Tom Mitchell introduces an operational Disaster
>Risk Reduction (DRR) Mainstreaming Framework for application at a national
>level. The paper argues a disaster risk reduction framework must be
>flexible enough to be modified through a participatory process and specific
>benchmarks or grades should be locally derived. Both the framework and the
>participatory process will help to generate political will and a sense of
>ownership, which are seen as vital to achieving disaster risk reduction
>gains. The paper also places the framework in the context of other similar
>initiatives and discusses the debates around definitions of 'disaster risk
>reduction' as a precursor to formulating a framework. The DRR Mainstreaming
>Framework is included in the body of the paper and is divided into four
>sections: Politics and Legislation, Policy, Knowledge, Practice. Overall
>there are 20 indicators with associated benchmarks, covering a broad range
>of disaster risk management issues. In conclusion, the paper calls for
>further testing of the DRR Mainstreaming Framework in diverse political,
>cultural and physical environments and also the need for building advocacy
>amongst academics, development organisations and governments.
>
>The paper can be downloaded from the Benfield Hazard Research Centre website
>http://www.benfieldhrc.org/SiteRoot/disaster_studies/working_papers/workingp
>aper8.pdf
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