Integrated risk management law and policy checklist
This Integrated Risk Management (IRM) policy checklist has been developed for Partners for Resilience (PfR) Alliance colleagues and their in-country counterparts. The aim of the checklist is to identify areas for improvement within current legislation, policies and implementation in relation to PfR's IRM approach.
The checklist can help practitioners develop a basis for advocacy strategies aiming to integrate disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and ecosystem management and restoration into laws, policies and implementation on the ground. The checklist doesn't provide guidelines to develop such strategies or to assess and support advocacy capacity with partners. See the reference page at the end of the document for tips and tools on these follow-on steps.
The checklist is composed of three sections: "policy review," a critical analysis of existing policies and legislation; "policy in planning and budget," an analysis of the translation of these policies into annual plans and budgets at national, district/provincial and local level; and "review of policy implementation," the actual implementation and perceived impact of these policies on the ground. Each section contains a unique set of key questions to help readers ensure they have looked at a policy from all relevant angles related to IRM.
There are multiple ways to use this checklist. If working with limited time and resources, the checklist can be used to do a 'Policy Quick Scan,' (see Annex 1). For an example of how the checklist can be customized, see Annex 2, which presents the work done by PfR Indonesia in creating guidelines and instruments to fit the Indonesian context.
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