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The guidance emphasizes the Checklist on Scaling Up Disaster Risk Reduction in Humanitarian Action as a crucial tool for humanitarian, development, and peace actors, providing comprehensive direction to reduce risks and integrate risk reduction into planning and programming globally and at country levels.
It outlines key steps for applying the checklist effectively, such as implementing risk-informed planning, raising awareness, customizing for national contexts, facilitating workshops, promoting collaboration, and utilizing additional resources. Following these steps enables actors to bolster risk reduction efforts, enhance response capabilities, and foster resilience in humanitarian contexts.
Context
The world is experiencing an unprecedented moment of fragility and uncertainty. We have no option but to change how we reduce risk and manage crises. In our increasingly connected world, where risks cascade, we are missing critical opportunities to improve how we reduce risk in humanitarian contexts. Response efforts have typically been focused on short-term needs. Few humanitarian planning documents fully analyse disaster-related risks and the impact of climate in humanitarian settings. Very few humanitarian appeals include disaster risk reduction (DRR) or climate adaptation efforts. With protracted crises typically making up 80% of the humanitarian portfolio it is important to address root causes of humanitarian needs. By bringing together humanitarian and development actors in protracted settings, we can address both needs and risks. To achieve this, more systematic approaches to risk analysis and planning are required.