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Implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action
in Asia
Sálvano Briceño
Director, International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
(UN/ISDR)
Regional Conference on Hazards of Nature, Risks and
Opportunities for Development in South Asia
New Delhi, 20 December 2006
www.unisdr.org
Global Trends - Disasters are NOT natural
Natural and human-induced hazards
Climate change and variables
(global warming, “global dimming”…)
HAZARDS +
EXTREME EVENTS
Socio-economic: poverty,
unplanned urban growth, lack of
awareness and institutional capacities...
Physical: insufficient land use planning,
housing, infrastructures located in hazard
prone areas or poorly built...
VULNERABILITY
Environmental degradation
ecosystem degradation; coastal,
watershed, marshlands…), etc.
Natural hazard
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Vulnerability
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Disaster Risk
WCDR outcomeHyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (HFA)
 3 Strategic goals
 5 Priorities for action
 Implementation and follow-up
• Integrate disaster risk reduction into policies, plans and
programmes of sustainable development and poverty reduction
• Recognize risk reduction as both a humanitarian and
development issue – in the context of sustainable development
• Focus on national and local implementation, with bilateral,
multilateral, regional and international cooperation
• Targets and indicators to be developed according to needs…,
needs to be done rapidly…
HFA - 5 Priority Areas
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Disaster risk reduction is a national and local priority
with a strong institutional basis for implementation
Identify, assess and monitor risk and enhance early
warning systems
Use knowledge, innovation and education to build a
culture of safety and resilience at all levels
Reduce underlying risk factors in all sectors
(environment, land-use planning, health, recovery,
building codes, livelihoods, financial services…)
Strengthen disaster preparedness for effective
response at all levels
Overview and challenges
Twenty Two months after the second World
Conference of Disaster Reduction and adoption of the
Hyogo Framework...
• Vulnerability increases more rapidly than expected,
disasters also…
• Governments are taking concrete action, possibly not
enough…
• Greater focus is needed on more explicit, systematic
approaches to support implementation of HFA
(guidelines, methodologies, indicators, standards …)
• ISDR System is being strengthened…
Building a disaster risk reduction
movement – broadening the
ISDR system
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The objective:
To reduce disaster risk,
worldwide, focusing on
nations and communities
 The instrument: Hyogo Framework for Action
2005-2015
 The vehicle:
ISDR system - ‘movement ’
Main elements of the strengthened ISDR System in
support of the Hyogo Framework for Action
Responsible for
national
strategies and
programmes,
baseline studies,
reporting…
Nations and
communities
National Platforms,
Government agencies, local authorities,
NGOs, CBOs, technical organisations,
private sector , media…
Governance
Global
coordination
Global Platform for DRR and
subsidiary bodies (PAC…)
UN General Assembly,
ECOSOC
USG Humanitarian Affairs
Management Oversight Board
ISDR secretariat
Management, oversight, programme guidance,
support, joint work programme, monitoring
Supporting
mechanisms
ISDR regional and thematic
platforms
International and regional org.
WB Country offices, UN Country
Teams, Red Cross/ Red Crescent
societies
Support and technical advice to agencies,
authorities, institutions and organizations
ISDR system levels of action
(Platforms)
National implementation
Regional
Based on existing regional and sub-regional mechanisms
local capacities
coordinated international and regional
efforts to support national and
ISDR programme
National platforms, multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral and multi disciplinary,
support from WB and UN country team – when appropriate
Thematic
Building on existing networks, clusters, programmes and other mechanisms
Global
Annual sessions
Subsidiary body: Programme Advisory Committee
Progress in implementing HFA at regional level
(paragraph 31, HFA)
• Regional and sub-regional coordination is being strengthened through
cooperation among UN, non-UN and regional organizations
• Inter-governmental strategies adopted (SAARC Disaster Policy
Dialogue, ASEAN, ECO, …)
• Regional collaborative centres: SAARC Center for Disaster
Management, initiatives of China (drought), Iran (seismic risk)…
• ISDR Asia Partnership (ESCAP, ADPC, ADRC, UNDP, OCHA and others
joining gradually)
•In Indian Ocean, tsunami early warning and recovery stimulated a wider
risk reduction agenda (Asia and Africa)
Region Initiative
Asia
- Beijing Action Plan for
Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia
- Asian Conference on Disaster
Reduction 2006 in Seoul
(preparatory to Ministerial
Conference)
-Sub-regional Central Asian
Consultative Meeting
-Sub-regional consultations
planned in ECO, ASEAN and
SAARC regions
Status
- Adopted at the 1st Asian
Ministerial Conference on
Disaster Reduction, Beijing,
Sep 2005; India to host the 2nd
Asian Ministerial Conference in
Nov 2007
- Next Asian Conference on
Disaster Reduction to be held in
Kazakhstan in June 2007
-Kyrgyzstan, June 2006
-In discussion with sub-regional
secretariats
Follow-up by ISDR
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ISDR will support the implementation of recommendations of
this workshop : technical project formulation including risk
assessment with WB and national authorities under the
GFDRR
Develop national risk mitigation strategies based on lessons
learnt from reconstruction experiences in South Asian region
Disseminate the proceedings and publication of this
workshop at forthcoming Global Platform on Disaster Risk
Reduction, Geneva, 5-7 June 2007
Promote regional co-operation amongst South Asian
members
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Way Forward……
• Intimate connections between poverty, environment,
climate and disasters require integrated approaches to
reduce risk
• Capacity needs for future climate risks are mostly
similar to those for today’s risks
• Urgent need to integrate risk management into
development sectors: health, education, environment,
science, culture...
• Build alliances for action utilizing ISDR mechanisms:
governments with media, NGOs, academic institutions,
private sector...
" More effective prevention strategies would save not only
tens of billions of dollars, but save tens of thousands of lives.
Funds currently spent on intervention and relief could be
devoted to enhancing equitable and sustainable development
instead, which would further reduce the risk for war and
disaster. Building a culture of prevention is not easy. While
the costs of prevention have to be paid in the present, its
benefits lie in a distant future. Moreover, the benefits are not
tangible; they are the disasters that did NOT happen. "
Kofi Annan, “Facing the Humanitarian Challenge:
Towards a Culture of Prevention”, UNGA, A/54/1