Swedish Best Practices

Documentation is added below as attachments (Institution, description) or as links to original documentation

Sustainable, risk reducing community activities (cooking equipment, reforestation, early warning etc)

Swedish Church, Diakonia (ACT alliance)

• Solar cookers, briquette - machines to make fuel, reforestation, capacity building

• A folder with many best practices: the project above; people-centred early warning system in partnership with affected communities; building green and hazard resistant schools.

• Several DRR good practices at community level

Child centred approach to DRR

Plan Sweden/International

• Stod barnarbete! Plan Sveriges arbete med DRR

• Child-centered DRR in Central Philippines

• Child rights and climate change adaptation: voices from Kenya and Cambodia (Plan & Children in a changing climate)

  • The benefits of a child-centred approach to climate change adaptation (Unicef & Plan)

  • IDS policy briefs on Children in a changing climate, Issue 13, Nov 2009 (IDS & Children in a changing climate)

Modelling, vulnerability assessments, mapping

SDC - Swedish Defence College

• Diffuse pollution modelling for Malawi with GIS

• Groundwater vulnerability mapping for Gaza strip with GIS

• Decision-making support model for vulnerability assessment in urbanized areas with GIS

Preparedness to respond

MSB - Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency

• • WASH response - is seen as a good model by for example the WASH cluster (preparedness to respond)

• MSB DRR operations, report 2010

SLV - Swedish National Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket)

• Drinking water safety

• VAKA - a network for drinking water preparedness

Human knowledge

Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University & Centre of Health and Buildings, Royal Institute of Technology

• Human bodies and the Forces of Nature: Regulated Rivers, Safety and Embodied Knowledge

Storm water drainage

Swedish Water (Svenskt Vatten)

• Swedish Water developed a report in 2011 about sustainable storm and drainwater management (Swedish: Hållbar dag- och dränvattenhantering) which describes well the retention mechanisms that can be applied. These are important to reduce extreme flows downstream e.g. not to overload the treatment facility with to much water at once.

• Sustainability in urban storm drainage, planning and examples by Peter Stahre, published by Swedish Water (svenskt vatten) in 2006. to order copies contact svensktvatten@svensktvatten.se

Insurance Industry

About 80% of all water related insurance claims concerned with damage caused by the household itself ie leaking pipes, burst washing machines etc (an estimation by Insurance Sweden).

Insurance Sweden

• A report about damage from sewage back ups by IVL published on 1 April 2012. Here, other countries have developed technology Sweden can learn from. A press release in Swedish can be found here.