Annual Report 2013 Inroads to Resilience / iii
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t has been a privilege for me to co-chair GFDRR’s Consultative Group over the past 12 months. I have immensely enjoyed working with all the Consultative Group members in helping to shape GFDRR’s future direction and I have been impressed by the progress that has been made. The United Kingdom’s objectives for this role have been modest in FY13, including the development of a GFDRR work plan that is backed by a robust monitoring, evaluation, and reporting framework. We see these as the necessary building blocks to allow GFDRR’s program to grow and to give donors the confidence to make new investments. GFDRR has delivered on both these goals, and in May 2013 the Consultative Group endorsed both the work plan and its new monitoring and evaluation framework during a meeting we held in Exeter. I was also pleased that the core theme of the informal Consultative Group in Washington, DC, was monitoring and evaluation. This was a good opportunity for GFDRR to provide an update on the roll out of their monitoring and evaluation framework and the preliminary findings from country impact evaluations. I hope the benefits of this will be evident in next year’s annual report.
With the recent devastation caused by Cyclone Phailin and Typhoon Haiyan, we have seen yet again the importance of investing in disaster risk management. Looking ahead, international discussions will increasingly focus on disaster risk management, from negotiations for a new international development framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals to a successor for the Hyogo Framework for Action. Disaster risk management will also have an important role to play in the upcoming international climate change negotiations in 2015 and the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016. Throughout, it will be critical for GFDRR and the World Bank to set a clear and ambitious vision for their role in helping countries to manage their risks and recover quickly from disaster. The United Kingdom now passes the co-chair of the Consultative Group into Norway’s capable hands. We will remain an active partner for GFDRR in the Group and as chair of the Technical Advisory Group on Monitoring and Evaluation until April 2014. We wish GFDRR every success for the future. Jo Moir Co-Chair, GFDRR Consultative Group 2012-2013 Deputy Head, Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department, Department for International Development (DFID)