Análisis del desarrollo de la gestión del riesgo de desastres en Colombia

Abstract

The growth and development of a community cannot be conceived without considering the risks that its modes bring to it and to future generations, it is necessary to link it to a planning that contemplates the risks of its execution to guarantee safe modes; It must also consider the risks that could dramatically intervene in its natural course. Colombia as a developing country is in the process of learning, forced by the multiple and costly economic and social havoc that have brought about events, both of great magnitude that have impacted several communities, such as those whose repercussions are more punctual, but also more frequent. Disaster Risk Management appears in this scenario as a obligatory tool to ensure sustainable development, a tool with an outstanding regulatory framework that was taking shape as a normative response with each event that impacted the community, becoming Public Policy of Risk Management with Law 1523 of 2012, with three fundamental paths: knowledge of risk, risk reduction and emergency response preparation, as can be seen with a strongly preventive approach in contrast to the norms prior to it. However, the implementation process has had obstacles concerning institutional weakness, intersectoral articulation, poor apprehension of the norm by the actors responsible for this application and the lack of resources necessary for this implementation. The aforementioned with an essential background such as the inadequate election of public officials, which is precisely the starting point to prosecute the correct implementation of the Public Policy of Risk Management, together with other components such as national accompaniment and Departmental, accountability and community empowerment through ambitious education and training programs at all levels, both academic, social and economic.