Lizti Irene Pinta

Liz joined IRM ADB in August 2021 as an Associate Project Officer (Infrastructure). She supports processing and administering sovereign projects and technical assistance in the transport sector in Indonesia. She possesses over 10 years of professional experience, mainly in international development cooperation, including project and contract management, procurement, policy analysis, and institutional arrangement.

Paul Venton

Dr. Paul Venton specializes in strengthening people’s disaster and climate resilience and is passionate about the protection, restoration and sustainable management of nature. He has 24 years of experience in more than 25 countries and an action-research PhD in improving the sustainability and scale of community-based disaster risk management. Paul co-designed and teaches a course on Emergency Response, Disasters and Public Health at Harvard University as part of a Master of Public Health degree. 

Event 1: Build Back Better Sector Dialogue: Cross-cutting Themes

This introductory webinar explored the principles and crosscutting measures likely relevant to any post-disaster recovery and reconstruction project, regardless of sector. This included governance arrangements, risk assessment, early warning systems, land-use planning, design standards, capacity development, social protection, and community-based disaster risk reduction.