ISDR Asia Partnership

Desk Review of                                 

Initiatives on Stocktaking of DRR 

Interventions in Asia and Pacific

What is the expected outcome?

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Who are the partners involved in DRR? 

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What are they working on (Thematically)? 

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Where are they working (Geographical 

coverage)?

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Which geographical areas needs more level of 

intervention considering its level of risk?

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Which thematic area should receive more 

focus?

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Which all initiatives from other sub-regions we 

could learn from?

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In which geographical area more financial 

resources are being put in? Where not?

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In which thematic area there is more partners 

involved? Which all needs stronger 

partnership?

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In which area (geographical/thematic) we 

can partner with others to scale up?

Regional Stock take

; 

System on DRR 

interventions in all sub 

regions of Asia and 

Pacific

Output 2

These are the type of 

questions the 

stocktaking system 

should answer

Why this review?

Type of information 

required

Actors

Location

Thematic 

intervention

Amount of funding

Duration of 

intervention

Type of outputs

Thus look at 

various 

stocktaking 

initiatives which 

have collected 

such type of 

information

Hence the desk review

What did the review look at?

More than 15 

initiatives on 

Stocktaking/Mapping

/Systems of DRR 

interventions

Objective of the 

initiative

Geographical 

coverage of the 

initiative

Final output of the 

initiative (study, 

report, on line system)

Start and Completion 

Date and 

Implementation Date

Current status of the 

initiative (if it is aimed 

to be a system)

What sort of answer 

did the system 

provide?

Is it a one off 

exercise or is a 

system which is 

being maintained 

and used

Initiatives captured in the review included….

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Global Initiatives

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Capacity Building for DRR in Recovery 

Management, IRP

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Financial Tracking System of UN/OCHA

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HFA Monitor by UN/ISDR

Initiatives captured in the review included….

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Regional Initiatives

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Various stocktaking under Pacific Disaster Net by SOPAC

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Stocktaking of DRR initiatives based on Delhi Declaration by UN/ISDR

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Matrix for mapping DRR and CCA by UN/ISDR

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Stocktaking of DRR initiatives under the KL Regional Action Plan by 

UN/ISDR and ADPC

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Regional Synthesis Report on HFA Implementation in Asia and Pacific - An 

Overview of Reports by Countries up to 2007 by ADRC, ADPC and ISDR

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CBDRM Database by ADPC

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Stocktaking of Capacity Building Initiatives in Asia and Pacific by ADPC

Initiatives captured in the review included….

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National Initiatives

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Disaster Risk Reduction Database; Indonesia and Sri Lanka 

Who does What, Where by UNDP 

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Stocktaking of DRR initiatives as part of development of 

National Action Plans on DRR, Cambodia, Indonesia, 

Myanmar

Studied the scope of each of the initiative…

Type of information it provides

Which organizations are working on DRR in 

different regions of the world?

What is their ‘Focus’ area of work in relation to 

different phases of disasters namely; 

Prevention, Preparedness, Early Recovery, 

Response etc. ?

IRP Database

Studied the scope of each of the initiative…

Type of information it provides

Information on the activity; title, 

duration, location, amount, agency, 

partners

Mapping the activity against the HFA 

indicators and Nairobi Work 

Programme

Mapping the activities (specific to 

CCA) against cross cutting issues

Stocktaking by UNESCAP and UNISDR

Studied the scope of each of the initiative…

Type of information it provides

Name of programs and projects on 

CBDRR

Which organizations are implementing 

programs and projects on CBDRR

Details on Training Courses on CBDRR

List of experts on CBDRR

Good practices and tools on CBDRR

Publications on CBDRR

CBDRM Database by ADPC, ESCAP, ECHO

Studied the scope of each of the initiative…

Type of information it provides

Projects being implemented against the 

five HFA priorities for action

Projects being implemented under various 

sectors (e.g. coordination, education, 

environment, logistic, health etc)

Projects being implemented by various 

organizations (name of the organization)

Projects being implemented in different 

location (province, district)

Projects being implemented by various 

type of organizations (government, donor, 

UN Agency, INGO, National NGO, University 

etc)

Who does What Where, 

Indonesia, UNDP

Typical features of stocktaking

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Location of intervention

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Information by Programs/Projects

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Information by Action/Activities

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Information against a framework e.g. HFA

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Classified under the phases of DM

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Project Amount

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Information on donor, implementing agency, partners

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Outputs in form of studies/online tools

Typical Scope of the stocktaking

Typically Database of organizations working in DM…..sometimes database on 

interventions related to specific themes such as CBDRR, Capacity Building etc.. 

Stock take against some particular framework .. In this case it is more of stock 

take of outcomes…….

Lot of times undertaken as a base work for developing some specific output.. 

Hence one off excel sheet exercise and not updated……

Information provided but no visual representation hence not easy for 

analysis….

Provides information on the project but not necessarily the outputs developed 

under the project which could be used by other partners…..

To learn more from experiences in the Pacific…….