BRDR is a five-year program with the aim of safeguarding development achievements and fostering regional collaboration on inclusive and gender-equal risk reduction strategies.
The programme concentrates on establishing evidence-based methodologies, tools, and practices to bolster the resilience of the most marginalised communities in three pilot countries (Papua New Guinea, Nepal, and the Philippines). RWI, operating through its Regional Asia Pacific Office in Jakarta, Indonesia, was a member of the implementing consortium, led by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), and comprised the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).
RWI successfully developed a Framework for Integrating Rights and Equality (FIRE), which reflects the systematic consolidation of gender equality principles and key international human rights-based standards and guidelines relevant to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. FIRE has been used in a range of contexts including analysis of law and policy relating to land use planning, design of research relating to municipal-level pandemic preparedness and response, and training on rights-based and inclusive approaches to emergency preparedness for response. At the policy level, Indonesia’s Ministry of Law and Human Rights has adopted and incorporated FIRE into the country’s Guidelines for Mainstreaming Human Rights in the Regulation and Legislation Formulation Process. Moreover, FIRE also has served as a framework to organise a public sector innovation program focusing on disaster displacement in African cities.
