Engagement Priority Sendai Framework Disaster Risk Reduction Caretaker

Engagement Priority Sendai Framework: Disaster Risk Reduction Caretaker Ramage/ 31 Jan 2018 8 th GEO Programme Board Meeting

Sendai Framework Disaster Risk Reduction Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 -2030 adopted at the Third UN World Conference in Sendai, Japan, on March 18, 2015. Supported by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) at the request of the UN General Assembly. Successor instrument to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 20052015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. Most significant shift on emphasis on disaster risk management as opposed to disaster management [broadened to focus on both natural and man-made hazards and related environmental, technological and biological hazards and risks. Health resilience strongly promoted]

Sendai Framework Disaster Risk Reduction Seven global targets and five priorities. Targets measured at global level and will be complemented by work to develop appropriate indicators. National targets and indicators will contribute to achievement of outcomes/goals of present Framework. Two targets UNISDR propose as relevant for GEO: 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 this 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.

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Sendai Framework Disaster Risk Reduction • Engagement with UNISDR ü Participated in the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction ü Global Data Readiness Review, Global Summary Report 2017 mentioned GEO and EO, particularly GEO-DARMA and GSNL ü Participated in CEOS WG Disasters at NASA/CONAE Disaster Summit ü Participated in UNISDR workshop on risk models in Geneva, November 2017 ü Invited to High Level Panel at Global Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience, November 2017, Tokyo, Japan ü Ongoing engagement with UNECE, UNESCAP and UNISDR on Measuring Extreme Events in Disasters (MEED) project [national disaster statistics] ü Long-term strategic engagement with UN-GGIM relating to thematic areas, including EO in the Strategic Framework on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters and aligning with Sendai Framework; also regional alignment with, for example, AO GEOSS and UN-GGIM Asia Pacific

2018 Planned Activities GEO DRR related activities • Mapping exercise and gap analysis of the GEO Work Programme (WP) activities in support of the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction – establish Sub Group • Highlighting and sharing GEO work on GSNL and GEODARMA to UN-GGIM Working Group on Disasters (led by Jamaica and Philippines) • GEO keynote at GI 4 DM in Turkey in March 2018 • Engagement with Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR, World Bank) at Understanding Risk in Mexico City, May 2018, as well as possible GEO-DARMA steering committee [GFDRR on steering committee] and joint submission made with CEOS