Creating an enabling environment for reducing disaster risk: Recent experience of regulatory frameworks for land, planning and building in low and middle-income countries
The focus of the study is on which governance mechanisms, partnerships, institutional frameworks and incentive structures are effective for the design and implementation of plans, codes and regulations in both formal and informal settlements, with reference to what political/economic/cultural conditions contribute to this.
The recommendations proposed in this publication and regarding the use of regulatory frameworks for achieving disaster risk reduction, are the following:
- enabling access to safe land;
- adopting regulations that require less oversight from government;
- laws and policies from the national level that require local governments to take responsibility for planning and building and include budgets and resources that enable local governments do this; and
- need for investments in the capacity of local governments to plan for and encourage safe development.
This document is a contributing paper of the 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.
