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Disaster Risk Reduction in DG ECHO
The EU as a humanitarian donor
• EU largest donor of humanitarian aid in the world
• Member States + Commission = more than half of official
global humanitarian aid
• In 2011, Commission (ECHO) spent over €1.1 billion,
helping millions of crisis victims in more than 70
countries
Situation analysis
• 60.000 killed per year, 97 % of them in developing
countries
• 200 m people affected per year by disasters
• 69 billion EUR material damage per year
• increasing population pressure
• climate change
• more disasters and conflicts in the future
What is Disaster Risk Reduction?
• The concept and practice of reducing disaster risk through
systematic efforts to analyse and manage the casual factors of
disasters including through reduced exposure to hazards,
lessened vulnerability of people and property, wise
management of land and the environment, and improved
preparedness for adverse events.
• DRR is an approach
DRR policy context
DRR and its relations with Climate change and sustainable
development is high in the international and EU agenda
EU Consensus on
Humanitarian Aid –
Dec 2007
The EU Communication
on the EU Strategy
on DRR for
developing countries –
2009
Hyogo Framework
for Action (HFA)
ECHO Policy Guidelines
on DRR
Under preparation
DG ECHO Strategic Approach in DRR
ECHO Main Objective:
“to work on strengthening disaster risk
reduction and preparedness capacities
among vulnerable communities (based on
high level of community participation and
ownership)”.
PREPAREDNESS
MITIGATION
PREVENTION
Areas of Intervention
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Mainstreaming:
- integrate DRR/CCA into response
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Targeted Actions:
- Dipecho
- Drought
- Epidemic
- Livelihoods
Advocacy
Capacity Building
The DIPECHO programme
• Addresses DP in a regional framework, targeting areas most prone
to natural disasters:
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Caribbean
Central America
South America
Central Asia and South Caucasus
South Asia
South-East Asia
Southern Africa and Indian Ocean
Pacific region
• Focus on preparation rather than mitigation
• Budget for 2012: 35 M€
• Bottom-up, community based approach targeting most
vulnerable and poorest communities
DIPECHO : Scope and Approach
Community-based approach with articulation to
policy level
Covers natural disasters only
Favours the implementation of pilot projects that
have demonstrative purposes and exit strategies.
Encourages the replication and scaling-up of such
projects by development actors or communities
themselves
Reinforces local response capacities
ECHO’S DRR FUNDED ACTIVITIES
Local capacity building/Training: search and rescue teams,
provision of material and equipment, organisation of
simulation exercises…
1. Awareness campaigns with the population (e.g. at schools):
recognising disaster risks & necessary measures.
Building local capacity
ECHO’s DRR funded activities
Technical surveys : mapping of villages/risks/existing structures…
Institutional building : reinforce regional information sharing and
coordination between different actors
ECHO’S DRR FUNDED ACTIVITIES
1.
Early warning systems: collection of hydrometric data,
communication systems, awareness signs, etc.
3.
Small-scale mitigation works: protection walls along river
banks, drainage works, reforestation, structural works on
existing public buildings to increase their resistance to
disasters, etc.
BOLIVIA
BOLIVIA
Location 1
Altiplano region (highlands):
Drought, cold waves,
hailstorms, landslides and
floods
Departments: La Paz, Oruro,
Potosí
Location 2
Amazon region and Chapare:
Floods, drought and forest fires
Departments: Beni, Pando and
Cochabamba
Location 3
Chaco region:
Drought, floods, forest fires
Departments: Santa Cruz de la
Sierra, Chuquisaca, Tarija
•Local disaster management components & capacity
building
•Institutional linkages and advocacy
•Information, education, communication
•Small scale infrastructure and services
•Stockpiling of emergency and relief items
•Coordination with VIDECI in the formulations of proposals
•Use of the Country Document as a reference
Who is implementing DIPECHO
• International NGOs
• Red Cross Societies
• UN Agencies
• As well as local agencies working with the above
organizations
Thank You
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