1. Resilience and disaster risk reduction working group
Meeting #4 – December 6th, 2016

2. Resilience and disaster risk reduction working group
1) Introduction – RegionsAdapt Secretariat; 2) Brief presentation on the priority topic "Implementing the 'Priorities for Action' of the Sendai Framework"; 3) Brief presentation on the priority topic "Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction"; 4) Group discussion based on a proposed action plan for 2017; 5) Closing remarks – RegionsAdapt Secretariat.

3. Resilience and disaster risk reduction working group
Priority Topics:
Index-based insurance (also referred to as parametric insurance);
Implementing the “Priorities for Action” of the Sendai Framework;
Monitoring and alert systems;
Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction.

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6. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 was adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, which represented a unique opportunity for countries:
(a) To adopt a concise, focused, forward-looking and action-oriented post 2015 framework for disaster risk reduction;
(b) To complete the assessment and review of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005– 2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters;
(c) To consider the experience gained through the regional and national strategies/ institutions and plans for disaster risk reduction and their recommendations, as well as relevant regional agreements for the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action;
(d) To identify modalities of cooperation based on commitments to implement a post 2015 framework for disaster risk reduction;
(e) To determine modalities for the periodic review of the implementation of a post 2015 framework for disaster risk reduction.

7. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Scope and Purpose:
The present framework will apply to the risk of small-scale and large-scale, frequent and infrequent, sudden and slow-onset disasters, caused by natural or manmade hazards as well as related environmental, technological and biological hazards and risks. It aims to guide the multi-hazard management of disaster risk in development at all levels as well as within and across all sectors.

8. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Expected outcome over the next 15 years:
The substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries.
To attain the expected outcome, the following goal must be pursued:
Prevent new and reduce existing disaster risk through the implementation of integrated and inclusive economic, structural, legal, social, health, cultural, educational, environmental, technological, political and institutional measures that prevent and reduce hazard exposure and vulnerability to disaster, increase preparedness for response and recovery, and thus strengthen resilience.

9. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
7 Targets:
(a) Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower the average per 100,000 global mortality rate in the decade 2020–2030 compared to the period 2005–2015;
(b) Substantially reduce the number of affected people globally by 2030, aiming to lower the average global figure per 100,000 in the decade 2020–2030 compared to the period 2005–2015;
(c) Reduce direct disaster economic loss in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030;
(d) Substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services, among them health and educational facilities, including through developing their resilience by 2030;
(e) Substantially increase the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020;
(f) Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present Framework by 2030;
(g) Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030.

10. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
Resilience and disaster risk reduction working group
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Priorities for Action:
There is a need for focused action within and across sectors by States at local, national, regional and global levels in the following four priority areas.
Priority 1: Understanding disaster risk.
Priority 2: Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk.
Priority 3: Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience.
Priority 4: Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.

11. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

12. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
Resilience and disaster risk reduction working group
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (Global Platform), as recognized by the UN General Assembly, is the main forum at the global level for strategic advice, coordination, partnership development and the review of progress in the implementation of international instruments on disaster risk reduction. It was established in 2006 and is now the world's foremost gathering of stakeholders committed to reducing disaster risk and building the resilience of communities and nations. The Global Platform holds biennial sessions. To date, there have been four, in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013, all of them held in Geneva. The 2015 edition did not take place, given that that year saw the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) is pleased to invite civil society and other relevant stakeholders to attend the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (22-26 May 2017, Cancun).

13. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
Resilience and disaster risk reduction working group
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (22-26 May 2017, Cancun):
Side event applications open until: January 15th
Ignite Stage applications open until: January 31st
Market Place applications open until: January 31st

14. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
Other useful Links:
Preventionweb:
Preventionweb´s Guest Editorial:
Words into action (Call for contributions):
Resilient Cities Campaign & Toolkits:
UNISDR Global Platform:

15. Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction
Resilience and disaster risk reduction working group
Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction
The Habitat III – United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, took place in Quito, Ecuador, from October, 2016 and gathered approximately attendants.
nrg4SD was also in Quito, organizing opportunities of discussions on the RegionsAdapt, supporting and representing members regions’ voice in this process. In particular relevance to regions, topics of territorial development, urban-rural linkages, multilevel governance and metropolitan areas were widely discussed in Ecuador.
Habitat III celebrated the adoption of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) – a plan of action to guide the future of urbanization, with clear recommendations to the efforts on this area. The document widely recognize the core relevance of involving subnational governments to pursue this ambitious agenda.
Regions in the New Urban Agenda – a report of nrg4SD at Habitat III

16. Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction
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Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction
The Conference strengthened the Global Climate Action Agenda by launching the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, which aims at concretizing the Agenda and providing a roadmap for action from 2017 to 2020.
This Partnership seeks to step up climate action by bringing together Parties and non-Party stakeholders committed to climate action within the same platform in order to share successes, lessons, best practices and barriers, as well as providing a platform for new initiatives.
The launch of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action represented the culmination of a series of thematic events, which focused on 8 key areas: Forests, Water, Industry & Business, Human Settlements, Energy, Oceans, Transport and Agriculture.

17. Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction
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Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction

18. Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction
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Land use planning and urban planning as a means for risk reduction
The events on Human Settlements were divided into two parts: Buildings and Resilience in Cities. nrg4SD actively participated in the Resilience Workstream, which was convened on 10 November around three critical themes: multi-level, multi-scale partnerships and initiatives; synergy among key global policy frameworks; and finance. The meeting was led by COP21 Champion Ambassador Laurence Tubiana and was the first multi-level, multi-stakeholder dialogue after the adoption of Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing Sustainable Development, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the New Urban Agenda. A total of 32 national, regional and global initiatives and processes on resilient cities and regions were highlighted, including RegionsAdapt as a prominent example, among others. Proposals made at the event include:
• Supporting NDCs: Mobilizing the potential and power of integrated sustainable urban and territorial development and disaster risk reduction for climate adaptation;
• Ensuring synergy through long-term, structured and regular dialogue and engagement of urban resilience and adaptation community in key processes; and
• Increased flow of global climate finance and other investments to urban resilience initiatives and a Global Action Framework for Localizing Climate Finance.
The outcome of the event was included into the announcement of the Local Governments and Municipal Authorities’ (LGMA) representative Ulrich Sumptoh, City Mayor of Port Vila, Vanuatu at the High-Level Event on Accelerating Climate Action.
More information on the event, as well as the outcome document can be found here.

19. Group discussion based on a proposed action plan for 2017
Resilience and disaster risk reduction working group
Group discussion based on a proposed action plan for 2017

20. Group discussion based on a proposed action plan for 2017
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Group discussion based on a proposed action plan for 2017

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Closing remarks – RegionsAdapt Secretariat
Next meeting:
January ?
February 6th – 17th ?