Disaster Risk Reduction Group

The group is a network of representatives from different UK NGOs from both emergency and development. The purpose of the group is to share information on an informal basis, to exchange experiences and knowledge, explore opportunities for closer co-ordination and collaboration and to advance common issues.

The group meets 3-4 times a year and meetings are hosted alternately by member NGOs.

Chair
Sarah Moss, Christian Aid
Email: smoss@christian-aid.org

Future Meetings

The next Disaster and Risk Reduction Group meeting will be:

Date: Monday 22 September 2008 (tentative date)

Venue: To be confirmed

Time: To be confirmed

To register for the September meeting, please email groups@bond.org.uk giving your name, organisation and specifying the DRRG meeting.

Membership of the Disaster and Risk Reduction Group is open to all BOND members. If you are from a BOND member organisation and would like to be added to the DRRG mailing list, please email groups@bond.org.uk.

Group News

DRRG meeting - 6 June 2008

The theme of the meeting on 6 June was 'Accountability in DRR'.

Monica Blagescu from Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) gave a presentation on HAP (ppt, 212KB) - what it is, their standards, implications for partners and links to DRR work. There was then a general discussion about why an organisation would sign up to HAP.

Marcus Oxley from Tearfund presented an update on the Global Review planned by the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for DRR (ppt) to monitor progress towards implementation of the Hyogo framework

There was also an update on UN climate change negotiations in Bonn and updates from the group about their work plans.

Please see the minutes of the 6 June 2008 meeting for more information.

DRRG meeting - 3 April 2008

DRRG organised a workshop on 3 April 2008 to plan a strategy for climate change advocacy for the group. Minutes of the 3 April 2008 meeting are here.

DRRG meeting - 14 February 2008

The DRRG met on 14 February at the Christian Aid offices. At the meeting, Oenone Chadburn from Tearfund handed over the role of Chair temporarily to Sarah Moss from Christian Aid, as Oenone is going on maternity leave from the end of February. Welcome to Sarah, and we wish Oenone a restful maternity leave and best wishes for the new arrival!

Please see the minutes of the 14 February meeting for more information.

DRRG meeting - 15 November 2007

The DRRG last met on 15 November at ActionAid's offices. The group discussed practical ways to address DDR on the ground and the recent evaluation report of the Action Aid Tsunami Team. Please see the minutes of the 15 November meeting for more information.

DRRG meeting - 6 September 2007

The group met on 6 September at the CAFOD offices. The group discussed opportunities for group action and reviewed advocacy and networking opportunities. Please see the minutes of the 6 September meeting for more information.

DRRG ad hoc meeting - 13 July 2007

The group met on 13 July 2007 at BOND. This was an ad hoc meeting called following the First Global Platform held in June (in Geneva) which opened up many opportunities for the group to engage in. One of these opportunities was to give formal feedback to the draft Global Review of Hyogo Framework for Action. This report assesses the progress against the actions of the Hyogo Framework during its first 2 years of implementation. The report's author, Andrew Maskrey was particularly keen to receive feedback from the NGO community and flew over to London to facilitate this feedback session with the BOND DRRG. Notes of the meeting will be posted here shortly.

DRRG recovery standards sub group meeting - 21 February 2007

Please see the minutes of the 21 February sub group meeting for more information.

DRRG meeting - 9 February 2007

The DRRG met on 9 February 2007 at the Christian Aid offices. The theme of the meeting was Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). Tom Mitchell from the IDS gave a presentation, 'On Better Terms', and led discussions on DRR and Climate Change Adaptation terminology. Terry Cannon from the University of Greenwich presented recent results of research reviewing how to adapt Vulnerability Analysis for CCA. Please see the minutes of the 9 February meeting for more information.

DRRG recovery standards sub group meeting - 17 January 2007

A Recovery Standards working group of the DRRG met on 17 January 2007 at the Muslim Aid offices. Please see the minutes of the 17 January meeting for more information.

2006 activities

The DRRG met on 2 November 2006 at Tearfund's offices. Please see the minutes of the 2 November meeting for more information.

The Group met on 10 July 2006 at the British Red Cross. The meeting was followed directly by a joint BOND and DEC workshop on DRR Principles/Standards in Recovery. The workshop was facilitated by Philip Buckle from the Coventry Centre for Disaster Management. For more information, please see the minutes of the 10 July 2006 meeting.

The Group's April 2006 meeting was held at Plan International. The theme of the meeting was the links between climate change and disaster risk reduction (pdf, 110KB). Minutes are available by following the link above.

Papers and Reports

If you would like a copy of any of the following reports, please contact groups@bond.org.uk:

'The Code of Conduct. Principles of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Response Programmes'

'Ahead of the Game. CAFOD and Disaster Preparedness' by Alistair Dutton, Emergencies Officer.

'Poverty, Disasters and the Environment in Bangladesh: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Causal Linkages' a DFID Bangladesh Issues Paper, April 2003.

'Development at Risk' a multi-agency brief (including ActionAid and UCL) for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002. This report examines the need to reduce the impact of disasters on the world's economies, societies and environment if sustainable development is to become attainable).