Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster.
KHAIRPUR: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster. It aims to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them: It has been strongly influenced by the mass of research on vulnerability that has appeared in print since the mid-1970s. It is the responsibility of development and relief agencies alike and it should be an integral part of the way such organisations do their work. The scope of DRR is much broader and deeper than conventional emergency management. There is potential for DRR initiatives in just about every sector of development and humanitarian work.
The United Nations Development Programme has launched a project about DRR in Pakistan. We have had a terrible experience with floods in Pakistan last year. If this project is taken seriously, we can learn how to deal with disaster and understand what steps are needed to reduce damages.
Ayaz Hussain Soomro
Published in The Express Tribune, June 24th, 2011.
