The Climate Centre first developed Minimum standards for local climate-smart disaster risk reduction (DRR) in late 2012, testing them in programme planning through the Partners for Resilience (PfR) network in Africa, Asia and Central
The Climate Centre first developed Minimum standards for local climate-smart disaster risk reduction (DRR) in late 2012, testing them in programme planning through the Partners for Resilience (PfR) network in Africa, Asia and Central America and in dialogue with practitioners and policy-makers.
A major revision followed and updated “2.0 standards” were launched at the COP 19 UN climate talks in Warsaw; they are also available in Arabic, French and Spanish, and have been distributed by PreventionWeb, among others.
The Minimum Standards are intended to be a bridge between national climate policy and local capacity for DRR.
They are practical approaches, achievable by communities with relatively few external resources, and national actors can use them to incorporate community action into national-level adaptation.
"Interactive posters" to apply the Minimum Standards in workshops are available here. Note the first poster is to be used by communities and the second poster is for Civil Society Organisations.
The Minimum Standards have now been used in all the PfR countries and, for example, by the Philippine authorities in the Metro Manila area for local risk reduction planning.
They are a living document that will be honed by programme experience.
The Australian Red Cross, for example, has expanded the Minimum Standards to include examples of gender-sensitive climate-smart approaches to risk reduction.
The Minimum Standards can also be used to shape