Dear <<Full name>>,
It is my great pleasure to share with you the Partners for Resilience
(PfR) newsletter. It is a first great collection of stories from local
communities and civil society organisations that work together with one
common ambition: to save and protect lives through disaster risk
reduction.
PfR pro-actively works to reduce disaster risk at a landscape scale,
however not all disasters can be prevented. With collective action we
can reduce their impact. And save lives and livelihoods. Applying an
Integrated Risk Management (IRM) approach increases the resilience of
communities and reduces the risks of disasters happening. Acknowledging
that the world’s problems are complex and interconnected, integrated
solutions are required.
Such solutions will not bear fruit when confined to the offices and
minds of individuals and organisations. They need to be designed with
the people they serve, be tested, shared and discussed. And when
solutions do not yield the intended results, we need to investigate
failures, and apply the learnings. While PfR uses social media
extensively to promote its approach, not all of its learnings can be
presented within the bite-sized, 280-character chunks offered on
Twitter. Hence this newsletter combines concise and to-the-point
stories, with an occasional deep-dive into the complexity of today’s
problems and the integrated solutions that are needed to address them.
By sharing these stories with you, we hope to inspire through the
learnings from the collective action of communities, civil society
organisations, knowledge institutes and policy makers, to strengthen
communities' resilience and the capacity of civil society organisations.
I invite you to share or
subscribe to this newsletter, and in doing so, support us to expand the network of change-makers.
Juriaan Lahr,
Chairman Partners for Resilience
