please read the below report on the cost of DRR. There is a lot of good information in this document, as well a number of interesting statistics, charts and points.

Reference: Watson, C., Caraveni, A., Mitchell, T., Kellett, J. & Peters, K. (2015). Finance for reducing disaster risk: 10 things to know. Retrieved from https://www.odi.org/publications/9248-finance-reducing-disaster-risk-10-things-know-full-report

Read through this document in its entirety and reflect on what you learn. Answer the following questions in the forum post for this week:

What is one thing that you learned from reading this report? This should be one thing that you did not know about before. What surprised you? This should be one thing that you understood differently before, or had no awareness of. If there was one thing that you could take away from this report to champion in practice (advocate for), what would it be? Why? In what area would investment make the biggest difference or produce the highest ROI (return on investment)? Why do you think that?