Jaroslav Mysiak on multi-sector partnerships in ENHANCE
Shortly before the March 2015 Sendai conference, Jaroslav Mysiak of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei described what the ten ENHANCE case studies shared and why partnerships still lacked yardsticks.
Dr Jaroslav Mysiak was a senior scientist at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and director of the Risk assessment and adaptation strategies division at CMCC. In ENHANCE he coordinated the research across the case studies and led the work package on regulatory policy instruments. FEEM studied the EU and national legislation that supports multi-sector partnerships.
He gave the interview in early March 2015, the week before he left for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, where ENHANCE partners joined a side event on flooding in Europe and appeared on the Ignite stage.
All ten case studies, he said, pursued the same aim: reducing risk, or building resilience, against events of low probability and high impact. They did it through different kinds of partnership, public-private, between public bodies, or across borders. He gave two examples:
- Flood Re in the UK, a partnership between government and insurers for high-risk properties;
- the controlled flooding of farmland used to protect towns in Northern Italy after the 2012 earthquake.
His standard for partnerships was demanding. They must be effective, efficient, transparent and inclusive. The difficulty, he admitted, was that yardsticks to evaluate them against those criteria were still missing in 2015.
The two examples are covered in the Flood Re profile and the Po basin case study. His letter from inside the Sendai negotiations is the sixth Letter from Sendai.