The provention consortium was created inFebruary 2000 as a formal partnership between the WorldBank, other International Financial Institutions (IFIs),bilateral donor organizations, the insurance sector, theacademic community, and civil society. Designed as athink-tank to commission research and to disseminate riskreduction tools, the provention secretariat was to rotatefrom one partner organization to another. Thus, after threeyears at the Bank, the secretariat was transferred to theInternational Federation of the Red Cross and Red CrescentSocieties (IFRC) in Geneva. The overall goal of proventionis to reduce the social, economic, and environmental impactsof natural disasters on vulnerable populations in developingcountries in order to alleviate poverty and contribute tosustainable development. This is achieved through (a)forging partnerships; (b) promoting policy; (c) improvingpractice; and (d) sharing knowledge. Under theWashington-based Secretariat, provention supported fourtypes of activities: applied research studies, pilot anddemonstration projects, education and training activities,and workshops and conferences. Provention was repeatedlycriticized for its weak governance structure. Therefore, thesecretariat commissioned a governance review in 2005. Thegovernance review recommended reactivating the presidingcouncil (PC); replacing the Steering Committee (SC) by aforum to discuss the impact of disasters in developingcountries; and creating an Advisory Committee as the maingoverning body.
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