Mainstreaming hazard risk management into rural projects
Disaster risk management working paper series no. 13
This paper addresses the issue of streamlining hazard risk management into individual projects in the rural sector. The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness and understanding of risk and disaster management and to provide concrete examples of past projects demonstrating ways to mainstream hazard risk management components. It does not provide a comprehensive checklist for incorporating risk management into project design. This effort may lead to follow-up work addressing technical aspects in a more comprehensive way.
The underlying premise of this paper is that taking disaster risks into account when designing and implementing rural projects can be done in a manner which does not greatly change the project’s scope. Mainstreaming risk management can be done in a cost-effective manner whose benefits in terms of both lives protected and the sustainability of projects outweigh the cost.
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