Civil Society and Cross-Cutting Issues for Risk Reduction: Food Security, Health, Human Security, Environment and Microfinance

Abstract

Each agency or individual researcher addresses different cross cuttingissues in disaster risk reduction (DRR) based on the areas of theirexpertise and focuses. These cross cutting issues can be categorizedmainly into five groups: Sector-focused (Health, Livelihood, etc.),Target-focused (Elderly, Children Persons with disabilities, etc.),Underlying causes-focused (Environment, Urbanization, etc.),Tool-focused (Information management, Capacity development etc.), andApproach-focused (Multi-hazards, Gender and cultural diversity,Community and volunteer participation etc.). A number of projects andactivities that target different cross cutting issues in conjunctionwith DRR have been implemented by CSOs. Developing a creative andinnovative project that can tackle both disaster risks and various crosscutting issues together requires a holistic and scaling-upmultidisciplinary approach, and this is an area that CSOs can highlycontribute to.This chapter addresses five topics as cross cutting issues: foodsecurity, health, human security, environment and microfinance. When thecapacity of these cross cutting issues is successfully developed, it hasa huge impact on DRR improvement. It is discussed why the five topicsare important to be included in the cross cutting issues.