Experience tells us that peer learning works. When
it crosses either geographical or subject boundaries,
it can become even more stimulating and engaging.
Therefore, for national stakeholders, the best venues
for inspirational and impactful learning are regional. To
accomplish this wider value, regional organization and
international development agencies should facilitate
and provide multidimensional capacity development
and promote an enabling policy environment for
building disaster resilience grounded within both
DRR and development practice. The Rio+20
outcome specifically emphasizes the important role
of regional organizations in promoting a balanced integration of economic, social and environmental
dimensions of sustainable development and requests
that these organizations support efforts for capacitybuilding,
development and implementation of regional
agreements and arrangements as appropriate, and
exchange of information, best practices and lessons
learned, particularly for integrating disaster risk
reduction and resilience into development plans.