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The Role of Land Tenure in Disaster Risk Management in FAO

The Role of Land Tenure in Disaster Risk Management in FAO. FAO Land Tenure Group Adriana.Herrera@fao.org. Presentation The dynamics and impacts of natural disasters in land tenure The institutional framework in FAO´s work on land tenure

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The Role of Land Tenure in Disaster Risk Management in FAO

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  1. The Role of Land Tenure in Disaster Risk Management in FAO FAO Land TenureGroup Adriana.Herrera@fao.org

  2. Presentation • The dynamics and impacts of natural disasters in land tenure • The institutional framework in FAO´s work on land tenure • Theapproach and activitiesthat FAO ispresentlyundertakingonlandtenure and natural disasters

  3. Thedynamics and impacts of natural disasters in landtenure Natural disasters frequency and severity has been increasing steadily in the past decades. Severity of impacts is linked to the relation between peoples vulnerability and resilience. Vulnerability to natural disasters is increased by poverty, bad nutrition, poor access and tenure insecurity of land and natural resources, weak governance.

  4. Impacts of natural disastersonpeople´slivelihoods Throughthedisruption of landaccess and tenuresecurity: • loss of access to their houses or land for production; • destruction of land tenure records: land titles, cadastre maps, land registry records, identity cards, and insurance claims; • destruction of physical evidence of property boundaries or death of the people with the memory to recognise them; • emergence or exacerbation of conflict; • land rights conflicts in resettlement areas.

  5. Addressing land tenure access and security is fundamental to reduce vulnerability of peoples livelihoods to natural disasters

  6. Theinstitutionalframework in FAO´sworkonlandtenure • Based in the FAO Framework forDisasterRiskReductionforFood and Nutrition Security • PILLAR 1: Enable the Environment. Institutional strengthening & good governance for DRR in agricultural sectors. • PILLAR 2: Watch to Safeguard. Information and early warning systems on food & nutrition security and trans-boundary threats. • PILLAR 3: Prepare to Respond. Preparedness for effective response & recovery in agriculture, livestock, fisheries & forestry. • PILLAR 4: Build Resilience. Mitigation, prevention and building resilience with technologies, approaches & practices across all agricultural sectors

  7. Based in the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 Aim at • the integration of disaster risk and prevention into sustainable development policies, planning and programming, • the strengthening of institutions, and • the incorporation of risk reduction into emergency preparedness, response and recovery programmes

  8. Approach and activitiesonlandtenure and natural disasters Approach: Strong collaboration withthe Inter-Agency StandingCommittee to create awareness, tools and approaches for the incorporation of land tenure issues into mitigation, preparedness and disaster response programmes

  9. Activities FAO, UN-HABITAT and the IASC Early Recovery Cluster decided to produce material jointly to: • analyse the linkages between vulnerability on land tenure and DRM; • promote awareness on the importance of land tenure for nationals and internationals working on DRM; • elaborate training tools to support the work of decision making people dealing with land tenure matters in DRM in natural disaster affected countries.

  10. Outputs1.Addressing land tenure issues following natural disasters. National Briefs2. Addressing land tenure in countries prone to natural disasters: Philippines, Indonesia, Honduras, Madagascar, Bangladesh and Ecuador3. Land and Natural Disasters. Guidance for Practitioners 4. Assessing and Responding to Land Tenure Issues in Disaster Risk Management: Training Manual

  11. NextChallenges Undertake wider initiatives to: • create awareness especially at national decision-making level; • train nationals and internationals working in land tenure and DRM programmes, legal frameworks and institutions; • encourage the exchange of experiences between countries addressing land tenure and DRM; • develop within existing DRM national programmes tools and approaches to incorporate land tenure issues; • support innovative initiatives to improve mechanisms for better access and security on land and other natural resources rights; • address governance of tenure to allow for a responsible and without corruption approach to tenure in DRM.

  12. Governance of Tenure Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGs). They address the main issues responsible governance on tenure needs to address in DRM. They are under negotiation in a process led by the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), housed in FAO, with a view to their finalization and endorsement during the 37th Session of CFS in October 17-21 2011.

  13. THANK YOU

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