Key advocacy messages: mobility and disaster risk reduction
This paper presents IOM’s approach to bring together disaster risk reduction and mobility management practices to improve people’s livelihoods and well-being. It asserts that: (i) mobility can save lives, enhance resilience and reduce risk; (ii) mobility can also make people more vulnerable and expose them to new risks; and that (iii) the Hyogo Framework for Action gave limited recognition to human mobility as a driver of risk.
It calls on the post-2015 agreement on DRR (HFA2) to adequately recognize mobility as a global dynamic that can increase risk but also be central to building resilience; (iv) for better understanding and management of mobility in global, regional, national and local policies to help prevent the creation of new risks and support investments in resilience; and (v) it proposes a set of actions to build the resilience of communities through improved attention to mobile populations.
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