Risk-Informed Local Governance for Enhancing Resilient Communities: Training Facilitator’s Manual

Overview
Integrated risk management planning is crucial for sustainable development, with participatory planning focusing on safeguarding against new risks or enhancing existing ones. This resilience-planning manual aims to instill this approach in development and humanitarian planning practitioners for integrated disaster and climate risk reduction, improving resilience to all hazards.

The national government provides an overarching policy guide for lower-level units to develop integrated development plans, ensuring equitable distribution of public resources and gender considerations. The new trend is to incorporate climate change and disaster-proof development at all levels, considering economic development and investment priorities against the creation of new risks and preventing and mitigating existing ones. Local governments should be responsible for integrating disaster risk reduction measures into local government planning and budgeting processes, strengthening local governance, and building their capacities on integrated risk management.

Risk assessments and profiling at the local government levels are essential sources of information and data for the upper local government planning process for both a normal time or during the hazard strikes and aftermath. This facilitator's manual outlines the process for risk-informed planning for resilient local government, aiming for knowledgeable, skilled, and empowered government authorities, trainers, and development facilitators among practitioners.