NORCAP and iMMAP have launched From Risk to Action: A Systems Diagnostic of Disaster and Climate Risk Management in Asia-Pacific.

NORCAP and iMMAP have launched From Risk to Action: A Systems Diagnostic of Disaster and Climate Risk Management in Asia-Pacific.

The report draws on interviews with practitioners across the region and a review of the policy and technical literature. It reads a national system as a chain of five stages, from risk information through decisions, finance and actions to outcomes. This frame was built to identify common challenges across a region where contexts and systems vary widely.

The report finds:

• The greatest weaknesses often lie not within the individual parts of the system, but at the points where those parts connect. Analysis that never reaches a decision. Decisions that release no money. Money that never arrives where the risk sits.
• Upstream, where risk information is produced, the chain is relatively strong. The binding constraints sit downstream: unclear decision-making authority, financing that is largely reactive and often fails to reach the local level where risk is felt, the choice of what to actually do, and how rarely avoided loss is measured at all.
• The same intervention behaves differently at capital level and at local level. Work done at the capital needs an explicit test of what it does at the far end of the chain, where communities are already managing their own risk.

While not an exhaustive assessment, the study argues for investment in the joints of the system: the institutional interfaces, decision rules and financing pathways that connect knowledge to action. On that basis, NORCAP and iMMAP are beginning to shape a role for embedded, trusted technical capacity working through national and regional institutions, reinforcing national ownership.

 

Read the full report: https://immap.org/publications-and-resources/from-risk-to-action-a-systems-diagnostic-of-disaster-and-climate-risk-management-in-asia-pacific