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About Trialogues
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• About Trialogues
• Trialogues is a concept that emphasizes the need
  for government, science and civic society to work
  together in assessing risks and take adaptive
  actions to manage disasters more effectively
• There is no one way of organizing a trialogue. In
  fact, they can also be referred to as poly-logues
  or even governance in general.
• More social scientific research is needed to
  study institutional arrangements of co-production
  in the field of disaster management and draw
  recommendations on how to improve co-production
• What is especially needed is the dissemination of
  experiences and practical tools and instruments
  to organize and manage the process of
  co-production between actors and stakeholders

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• Major issues to be bridged
• How to create awareness of risks among civic
  society and make them participate in disaster
  prevention and preparation
• How to make governments concerned and take
  responsibility to strengthen risk management
  (including science and civic society)
• How to go from consultation of stakeholders to
  integration of government, science and civic
  society (people and NGOs) in assessing risks,
  planning strategies and implementing solutions
• How to facilitate knowledge sharing and joint
  learning between government, science and civic
  society
• 5. How to improve mutual understanding and a
  shared language between government, science and
  civic society

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• Actions / initiatives to help the bridging
  process
• 1. How to go from consultation of stakeholders to
  integration of government, science and civic
  society (people and NGOs) in assessing risks,
  planning strategies and implementing solutions
• Establish and develop linkages and cross-sector
  initiatives and networks and bear in mind that
  this is a long term process
• Start now, do not wait until the disaster has
  occured
• Increase transparency and clarity of roles and
  strengthen institutions
• Bottom-up (regional) planning, including
  community participation by building the
  capacities of the civic society and include flood
  models and scientific information (e.g. water
  depth) in spatial plans

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• Actions / initiatives to help the bridging
  process
• 1. How to go from consultation of stakeholders to
  integration of government, science and civic
  society (people and NGOs) in assessing risks,
  planning strategies and implementing solutions
• Create cooperative arrangements of government
  officials, scientists and representatives of
  civic society
• Develop and implement solutions that fit in,
  build on initiatives and capacities in civic
  society isolated solutions can work
  counter-productive
• Take a holistic approach towards disaster
  management and sustainable development

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• Actions / initiatives to help the bridging
  process
• 2. How to facilitate knowledge sharing and joint
  learning between government, science and civic
  society
• Collaboration between parties within countries
  but also between countries international
  knowledge and experience exchange
• Strengthen capacities of governmental
  institutions, knowledge institutions, NGOs and
  community-based organizations

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• Actions / initiatives to help the bridging
  process
• 3. How to create awareness of risks in the civic
  society and make them participate in being
  prepared for dealing with these risks
• Strengthen civic society with the aid of NGOs,
  especially in societies with stronger social
  networks, and use events to strengthen awareness
  and self-organization
• Repeat the story to the civic society to increase
  awareness and help remember the previous events
  with the assistance of science
• Empower civic society by using trigger events to
  get them involved by showing their vulnerability
  and to create responsibility of the civic society
  to act to decrease their vulnerability

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• Actions / initiatives to help the bridging
  process
• 4. How to make governments concerned and take
  responsibility to strengthen risk management
  (including science and civic society)
• Promote international cooperation and knowledge
  exchange to strengthen capacities of governments
• Invest in resources before the disaster occurs

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• Actions / initiatives to help the bridging
  process
• 5. How to improve mutual understanding and a
  shared language between government, science and
  civic society
• Ongoing conversations to build trust, confidence
  and clarity regarding who does what
• Get the 3 parties to the discussion table and
  visualize the risks and possible results
• Create an in between institution to overcome
  the language and culture barrier
• Academics and science can bring transparency that
  supports in convincing society about the risks
  and increase awareness, also among government
  officials

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• Sound bytes
• Memories are short. We have remember disasters
  and keep telling each other the stories again,
  again and again!
• A disaster is also a window of opportunity to
  maintain awareness and commitment a a good
  trialogue starts well before the disaster occurs
• Trialogues not only manage the consequences, but
  address the risks
• Be the change you want to see in the world

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• Initiatives
• ISDR call for contribution for its annual
  publication on disaster risk reduction Disaster
  Reduction in Asia Pacific
• AIT Relief packs for disaster management
• DeltaDialogues on managing processes of
  co-production