Winrock International India (WII) is a partner on this collaborative program led by Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, US (ISET-US) with support from DFID (UK).  The overarching objective is to develop, apply and evaluate (in terms of their costs and benefits) pro-active disaster risk management strategies, including risk reduction and risk transfer, in selected disaster-prone developing countries--India, Nepal and Pakistan. It adopts a multi-hazard case-study approach where the project can draw on prior and on-going field studies. Geological and meteorological hazards are planned to be investigated, including earthquakes, tropical cyclones, floods and droughts. Besides micro- and macro-modeling, methodologies will include literature reviews, stakeholder interviews and detailed field surveys using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Analytical frameworks will be used in this project. These will explore the role played by governance and institutional considerations at local and national levels in determining the functioning of, and anticipated quantitative or qualitative benefits from, investments in risk reduction or risk transfer.

The program is jointly implemented by Winrock International India, ISET (US) & ISET-Nepal, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria (IIASA) and Pakistan Institute for Economic-Development Action Research (PIEDAR), supported by Daanish Mustafa from Kings College, London.