Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to fund disaster risk reduction measures; and to which countries funding on such measures is allocated.

In response to the 2011 Humanitarian Emergency Response Review, DFID committed to embed disaster resilience within all country programmes, influencing DFID’s overall bilateral spend, rather than having a separate funding line for disaster risk reduction.

More recently, the UK’s new Humanitarian Reform Policy continues our commitment to build resilience. It has identified managing risk better as a critical pillar of an improved global response to humanitarian crises, this includes a commitment to:

“Anticipate and track the risk of crises, including conflicts, natural disasters and epidemics, and ensure UK funding is allocated according to risk and need.”