Past experience in disaster risk management capacity building underlines the importance of training the trainers at national and local levels.
While there is an encouraging growth in social vulnerability research, disaster risk research capacity building should explicitly advance the multidisciplinary investigation of risks, and go beyond fragmented approaches to the understanding of risk (Holloway 2009; Cutter et al. 2015).
According to a review of disaster risk management capacity in Montserrat carried out by UNDP (2010), the focus of DRM activities is too often related to the Soufrière Hills volcano, with insufficient emphasis on a multi-hazard approach.
This article presents the outcomes of these young people's participation in the disaster risk reduction capacity building events and policy-making, as well as the follow-up actions envisioned by the young participants of the Forum.
In addition to a high exposition to extreme events, impacts in SSA are heightened by weak disaster risk management capacities, and a high vulnerability among the population (Hellmuth et al. 2007).
Heading into 2017, the Forum will focus on disclosure, access to insurance, sustainable insurance roadmaps, climate risk, disaster risk reduction and capacity building for supervisors.
The country programme has also integrated the four cross-cutting areas of the UNDAF: human rights, gender, disaster risk reduction and capacity development for programme implementation.
For both events, abrupt changes in levels of disaster risk and limited local capacity to respond led to greater external interference in local DRM decisions.
The emergence of transnational knowledge consortia and academic networks (see Work Streams 1 and 3) that can transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries allows for a wider scope of disaster risk knowledge transfer and capacity building.
In addition, the sharpened focus on disaster risk reduction and local capacity development as explicit strategies contribute to communities' own flexibility in the face of multiple shocks, throughout the broader cycle of prevention, response and recovery.
