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A ripple in development? - Channel Research

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More effort has gone towards build<strong>in</strong>g the capacity of others, and<br />

<strong>in</strong>to build<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>termediary bodies for disaster risk reduction, than has<br />

gone <strong>in</strong>to assess<strong>in</strong>g whether capacity build<strong>in</strong>g is well handled <strong>in</strong>ternally,<br />

and spreads to local associations and the community. In the overall<br />

scene, there is a need for more long term fund<strong>in</strong>g, for more local level<br />

coord<strong>in</strong>ation such as was carried out by BRR <strong>in</strong> Indonesia. More fundamentally,<br />

disasters should not be seen only <strong>in</strong> terms of the assets<br />

destroyed, but also <strong>in</strong> terms of the priority to be given to the opportunity<br />

they create to cultivate resilience.<br />

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