The handbook on law and disaster risk reduction
Handbook on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction (the Handbook) has been developed in support of the Checklist on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction (the Checklist), a tool to assess whether and to what extent the existing legal framework of a country is meeting its full potential in supporting DRR. The Checklist was developed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) drawing on three years of research and consultations with key stakeholders. The Handbook elaborates on the Checklist by providing explanations of each assessment question and related ‘issues to consider’, as well as a range of suggestions on how to conduct a legislative review process using the Checklist. It also provides some background on the findings of the IFRC/UNDP research, the related standards set out by the Sendai Framework, and lessons learned from legislative review processes around the world.