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Evidence shows these institutionalisations can instrumentalise DRR under neoliberal agendas driven by international donors. This article, however, highlights how the fixation on dedicated laws, institutions and funding has produced a siloed DRR policy. Using Chile as a case, and the implementation of the Law 21.364, it describes the instrumentation created to deal with disasters at the local level, including DRR and emergency plans, as well as new functions and municipal structures. Given Chile\u2019s subnational governance, municipalities are forced to self-fund a policy issue that is not prioritised, and it leads to the separation of risk reduction, climate change and development into discrete sectors. This obsession with everything-should-be-dedicated results in a fragmentation that diverts attention from the structural causes of risk creation embedded in neoliberal development.\nContribution:\u00a0The analysis emphasises the need to rethink dedicated DRR institutionalism towards integrated, adaptive approaches addressing underlying risk drivers rather than isolated sectors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4102\/jamba.v18i1.1985","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,17]],"date-time":"2026-08-17T08:03:48Z","timestamp":1786953828000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4102\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["On dedicated institutions and funding to support disaster risk reduction: Reflections on local instrumentation in Chile"],"prefix":"10.4102","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3930-8312","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ricardo","family":"Fuentealba","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/044cse639","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of O'Higgins"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5487-6997","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"JC","family":"Gaillard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/03b94tp07","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Auckland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2580","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref0","unstructured":"Baeza, H., 2025, \u2018Implementaci\u00f3n de planes comunales para la reducci\u00f3n del riesgo de desastres en Chile: Estudio de caso en la comuna de Pe\u00f1alol\u00e9n entre los a\u00f1os 2021 y 2025\u2019 [Implementation of communal plans for disaster reduction in Chile: Case study in the municipality of Pe\u00f1alol\u00e9n between the years 2021 and 2025], Undergraduate thesis, Universidad de Chile, Repositorio Institucional Universidad de Chile, viewed 11 March 2026, from https:\/\/repositorio.uchile.cl\/bitstream\/handle\/2250\/209221\/implementacion-de-planes-comunales-para-la-reduccion-del-riesgo.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y."},{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Bankoff, G. & Hillhorst, D., 2022, Why vulnerability still matters. 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