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into public investment policies and planning including community-based interventions. Policymakers and other relevant key stakeholders should encourage the development and financing of plans in a coordinated and coherent manner across sectors
recognising community inputs (DMC 2015).
The following three concepts discussed in this chapter converged to mainstream
disaster risks in the development process:
Integrated Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (ICBDRM): The traditional approach to CBDRM was augmented to ICBDRM by an all-inclusive
approach from the lens of disaster risk management. From the disaster management point of view, ICBDRM was promoted amongst the disaster management
stakeholders at the practitioner and policymaker levels.
Risk-Sensitive Development Planning (RSDP): The advocacy for greater risk
sensitivity in the development planning was promoted amongst the development
practitioners and policymakers through the concept of risk-sensitive development.
This concept was advocated through the lexicon familiar amongst development
stakeholders to mainstream disaster risk reduction and it was found to be effective
than talking about ICBDRM to the development partners.
Community Resilience Framework (CRF): The concept of community resilience
was the converging point for disaster and development practitioners. CRF was the
driving theme behind the ICBDRM and RSDP, which provided a common meeting
point as an overarching framework for discussion amongst the key stakeholders.
13.4 Method
The main goal of the Community Resilience Framework (CRF) is to help Sri Lankan
communities achieve resilience through the understanding of underlying risk factors.
It intends to provide an insight into community-based resilience for any stakeholder
working on DRR. For policymakers, it is a document that will assist in designing
strategies to overcome obstacles imposed due to natural or man-made hazards.
The key objective of CRF is to guide and facilitate local authority (including
divisional secretariat and local government) officials and other stakeholders in
disaster management to work towards resilience building at local to divisional
level (DMC 2015). This entails guiding development planning committees to
assess risks and accordingly plan disaster preparedness so as to reduce community
vulnerability.
In this process, the disaster risk assessment is led by the community and facilitated
by local authority development planning groups together with external stakeholders.
The representatives from the most vulnerable community will also be a part of the
risk assessment whilst the inclusion of women, children, persons with disabilities and
the aged will be ensured. Community Risk Assessment leads to the formulation of
development plans at the community level with adequate emphasis on risk reduction
measures as well as exploring the required resources. Annual Divisional Development Plans and other sources facilitate the budgetary requirement, which leads to
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into public investment policies and planning including community-based interventions. Policymakers and other relevant key stakeholders should encourage the development and financing of plans in a coordinated and coherent manner across sectors
recognising community inputs (DMC 2015).
The following three concepts discussed in this chapter converged to mainstream
disaster risks in the development process:
Integrated Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (ICBDRM): The traditional approach to CBDRM was augmented to ICBDRM by an all-inclusive
approach from the lens of disaster risk management. From the disaster management point of view, ICBDRM was promoted amongst the disaster management
stakeholders at the practitioner and policymaker levels.
Risk-Sensitive Development Planning (RSDP): The advocacy for greater risk
sensitivity in the development planning was promoted amongst the development
practitioners and policymakers through the concept of risk-sensitive development.
This concept was advocated through the lexicon familiar amongst development
stakeholders to mainstream disaster risk reduction and it was found to be effective
than talking about ICBDRM to the development partners.
Community Resilience Framework (CRF): The concept of community resilience
was the converging point for disaster and development practitioners. CRF was the
driving theme behind the ICBDRM and RSDP, which provided a common meeting
point as an overarching framework for discussion amongst the key stakeholders.
13.4 Method
The main goal of the Community Resilience Framework (CRF) is to help Sri Lankan
communities achieve resilience through the understanding of underlying risk factors.
It intends to provide an insight into community-based resilience for any stakeholder
working on DRR. For policymakers, it is a document that will assist in designing
strategies to overcome obstacles imposed due to natural or man-made hazards.
The key objective of CRF is to guide and facilitate local authority (including
divisional secretariat and local government) officials and other stakeholders in
disaster management to work towards resilience building at local to divisional
level (DMC 2015). This entails guiding development planning committees to
assess risks and accordingly plan disaster preparedness so as to reduce community
vulnerability.
In this process, the disaster risk assessment is led by the community and facilitated
by local authority development planning groups together with external stakeholders.
The representatives from the most vulnerable community will also be a part of the
risk assessment whilst the inclusion of women, children, persons with disabilities and
the aged will be ensured. Community Risk Assessment leads to the formulation of
development plans at the community level with adequate emphasis on risk reduction
measures as well as exploring the required resources. Annual Divisional Development Plans and other sources facilitate the budgetary requirement, which leads to