Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management: Strategies for Building Resilience in the Face of Multiple Hazards and Compounding Shocks
Effective responses to shocks and stressors through disaster risk management (DRM) can help build resilient capacities to manage future crises.
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Shocks and stressors, such as the impacts of climate change and Russia's unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine, require billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, erode development gains, increase the risk of political instability and diminish future economic growth. Disaster risk management (DRM) offers an approach for understanding risk probability and exposure by providing a set of tools for managing risks. Preplanning and prefinancing for known disasters significantly increases the timeliness and effectiveness of responses once a disaster strikes.
Early, predictable and well-coordinated responses to shocks and stressors through DRM can mitigate negative coping mechanisms, such as reduced food consumption, livestock death and distressed productive asset sales. DRM can also help individuals and communities build resilient capacities to manage future crises.
This webinar featured Lara Evans and Kathryn Stahlberg of USAID’s Center for Resilience in a presentation and discussion surrounding the role of DRM in building resilience. Watch the recording now.
About the Speakers
- Lara Evans is a social protection advisor with USAID’s Center for Resilience. In her work, Lara endeavors to build and strengthen social protection systems by helping governments to enact policies and implement programs that reduce socioeconomic deprivations, promote human dignity, strengthen social cohesion and provide equal access to public goods and services for all. Lara has been in the field of international development since childhood growing up overseas. She has over 23 years of experience.
- Kathryn Stahlberg is a senior risk advisor with USAID’s Center for Resilience. Kathryn has 20 years of humanitarian and development experience, both domestically and internationally. She leads the DRM portfolio for the Center for Resilience, focusing on strategies for comprehensive risk management, including prearranged disaster relief. Previously at USAID, she served as a senior policy advisor for the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance focusing on refugee and internally displaced persons policy and global partnerships. Prior to joining USAID, she served as an agricultural advisor in the U.S. Senate focusing on risk management mechanisms.
