The role of accountability within disaster risk governance
This publication tries to articulate the role of accountability in disaster risk governance and how a workshop titled “Ensuring Accountability in Disaster Risk Management and Reconstruction” held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 8 December 2015, contributed to this agenda. This international workshop and policy dialogue involved the participation of disaster risk management experts and state and non-state stakeholders to deliberate on and develop a possible framework for social accountability to be considered for inclusion in a national disaster management plan.
The workshop was focused on key aspects of accountability, but was not entirely on the government but looked at other stakeholders and a wide range of DRR settings. It is hoped that incorporating social accountability into disaster management would improve significantly the outcomes of external interventions leading to an improvement of life chances and quality of life of potential and actual victims of disasters. It culminated on the theme with a view to determine the scope of accountability in DRR within a public policy framework.
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