Through the Inclusive Community Resilience (ICR) initiative, GFDRR taps into grassroots expertise in disaster risk management and promotes scalable models that engage directly with communities, making them equal partners with governments. In the event of disaster, studies show that 90% of survivors are rescued by their own neighbors. This core community strength in responding to—and protecting against—natural hazards and climate change is at the center of the ICR initiative.
Highlights from Social Resilience
Pillars of our Social Resilience Work
By bringing disaster and climate risk management into large-scale country investment operations, GFDRR helps to channel risk management resources directly to poor households and communities.
- For example, in the Philippines, GFDRR is training people in selected villages on risk management and community mapping and is drawing on local knowledge as part of the effort. This information is then shared with all community members, who factor it into overall investment decisions in a broader community-driven development program. The end goal is to expand this initiative to all villages included in the program, in some 800 municipalities.
Integrating gender and citizen engagement into investments.
Through its Gender Action Plan, GFDRR is bolstering its commitment to integrating gender issues into climate and disaster risk management efforts by:
- Understanding and addressing the different needs of men and women in disaster risk management investments; and
- Promoting women’s empowerment for broader resilience strengthening.
GFDRR places a high priority on documenting and sharing evidence on successful community-driven disaster and climate risk management approaches.
