A ripple in development? - Channel Research
A ripple in development? - Channel Research
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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