Georgia

Who Does What Where in Disaster Risk Reduction in Georgia. September 2009

Georgia is a highly disaster-prone country, which frequently experiences natural hazards as well as man-made emergencies. Compounding development factors amplify the frequency and intensity of disasters and call for a proactive and multi-hazard approach.

Disaster risk reduction requires close collaboration of policy-makers, scientists, urban planners, engineers, architects, development workers and civil society representatives. Such cooperation is a precondition for adopting a comprehensive approach and inventing adequate solutions. Multi-stakeholder and inter-agency platforms can help provide and mobilize knowledge, skills and resources required for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development policies, for coordination of planning and programmes, and for provision of analysis and advice.

For this reason, UNDP established a Disaster Risk Reduction Think-Tank in Georgia in March of 2009 in close collaboration with the Georgian National Committee for Disaster Risk Reduction and Environmental Sustainable Development (formed in 2008).

One of the first joint initiatives was to obtain an overview of who does what and where in the field of disaster risk reduction in Georgia.

This 3W-exercise was launched at the first Disaster Risk Reduction Think-Tank meeting in March of 2009. It is based on information received from partner agencies and organizations and requires continuous review and updating in order to provide an accurate picture of the disaster risk reduction scenario in Georgia.

The directory is co-published by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Georgian National Committee of Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development, and the UN Development Programme in Georgia.

It is important that partners provide regular updates to their profiles in order to keep the publication current.

For any modification, feedback, suggestion, and addition of new partner profiles, please contact Ms. Micol Scherrer (micol.scherrer@sdc.net), International Programme Officer for DRR at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

The final deadline for input to the next version of the 3W-exercise is October 31, 2009.

The updated version will be published in November of 2009 and made available to agencies as ready reference.

Who Does What Where in Disaster Risk Reduction in Georgia. September 2009 (1.1 Mb)