Improved Understanding and Governance of Systemic Risk: Unpacking the 2022 Global Assessment Report

Globally disaster risk is on the rise. As challenges combine, the risk of system collapse increases. We are currently off track to reach our global goals and targets to reduce disaster risk and build resilience, foster sustainable development, and mitigate and adapt to climate change. This trend has been exacerbated by increasing poverty levels and inequalities driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. 
However, the pandemic experience has improved our understanding of systemic risk drivers and root causes. These include both biophysical (e.g. human and environmental health) and socio-economic aspects (e.g. systemic inequalities and poverty). The Global Assessment Report (GAR) 2022 identifies risk management and risk communication approaches required to transform current risk governance practices. By managing risk across disciplines, understanding the systemic characteristics of its root causes and drivers, and by creating synergies among global agendas we can use disaster risk reduction as a tool to accelerate the 2030 Agenda. 
This Thematic session will feature one of the lead authors of GAR 2022, as well as top thinkers in the risk governance domain. We will discuss findings of the report and suggest follow-up actions for transforming findings into action.

 

Session objectives 

  • Introduce GAR 2022 key findings and recommendations on novel risk governance approaches and necessary transitions   
  • Foster a common understanding of the systemic nature of risk and how it can be managed  
  • Suggest follow-up actions to put GAR 2022 findings into practice for academicians, practitioners, and governments 
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  • Mandisa Kalako-Williams - Independent Consultant

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  • Aromar Revi – Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
  • Conor Seyle - Senior Strategic Advisor, One Earth Future Foundation, Inc.
  • Irasema Alcantara Ayala –Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  • Ibrahima Cheikh Diong - Director-General, African Risk Capacity
  • Claudia  Herrera Melgar - Executive Secretary, The Coordination Center for Natural Disaster Prevention in Central America (CEPREDENAC)
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Read this section to learn more about systemic risk and the findings of the Global Assessment Report. 

Where do we stand? 

 

Key challenges:

Systemic risk, like all risk, is the result of the interrelationship of hazard, exposure and vulnerability with resilience. These variables are socially constructed through a range of underlying drivers, including poverty and inequality, badly planned and managed urban and infrastructure development, environmental degradation, climate change, conflict, displacement and weak governance. Additionally, risk-related decisions are influenced by human nature where risk perception and biases can override scientific facts. Prevailing political economy may also set barriers to address and prioritise some of the drivers that shape risk. 

Key opportunities: 

By managing risk across disciplines, understanding the systemic characteristics of its root causes and drivers, and by creating synergies among global agendas DRR can be used as a tool to accelerate the 2030 Agenda. This way we can counter current setbacks in reaching the Sendai Framework Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Behavioural science offers an opportunity to improve risk management outcomes and long-term change. We need to consider how human minds perceive risk and make decisions in order to adapt and reconfigure regulatory and incentive systems as well as market risk reduction products and services.

Risk management and communication can be steered towards co-design and data driven consultative decision making that gives agency to end users. Knowledge beyond conventional risk data is needed for better understanding of the systemic impacts of risk. Outputs of scientific risk models can be complemented with traditional knowledge. 

Systemic risk modelling is advancing rapidly and is a game changer for risk management. To be successful we need to collaborate beyond traditional sectors and disciplines. Risk governance systems must address the challenges of economy, environment, and equity as a whole while also tackling structural inequalities, vulnerability and exposure. 

Session guiding questions 

  • What do we need to know and understand about systemic risk to enable us to manage it at global, regional and national but also local level? 
  • How has the risk management context changed since 2015, and how should this guide how we accelerate or (re-)engineer modalities for risk management and risk governance, in the remaining period of the Sendai Framework, until 2030? 
  • What are key obstacles towards public sector and private sector and societal resilience across different sectors and SDGs, while facing climate extremes? (Data, knowledge, perception, governance, or compliance?) 
  • What is needed to foster and empower policy makers action, especially in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic?
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  • Dr. Leo Brewster, Barbados, Coastal Zone Management Unit 

  • Luis Doñas, Chile, National Emergency Office (ONEMI) 

  • Bazarragchaa Duugai, Mongolia, The National Emergency Management Agency 

  • Sarah-Jayne McCurrach, New Zealand, Earthquake Commission 

  • Bhola Saha, Confederation of Risk Reduction Professionals, India 

  • Ali Ahmed Riad, Estmrarya Consulting 

  • Alessandro Attolico, Province of Potenza, Italy 

  • Victor Manuel García Lemus, Red Universitaria de las Américas y el Caribe para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, Guatemala 

  • Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann, Risk Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (Risk KAN) 

  • Angelika Planitz/Rajeev Issar, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 

Transformative Financing Options to Build Resilience

Societies continue to bear increasing costs from natural hazards as population growth, the geographic concentration of economic and infrastructural assets in vulnerable areas, and the effects of climate change are accelerating exposure to potential losses. 
The financial losses from disasters are a systemic financial risk. They cascade through the financial system, with capital flight from vulnerable sectors and communities, sovereign credit risk, sovereign defaults, sudden and sharp write downs from devaluation and insurance premiums. This can create new risks and/or reinforce existing inequalities. Ultimately, they challenge the ability to raise investment to increase resilience.  
Resilience requires a layered financial strategy bringing to bear all sources of financing and risk prevention projects need to draw on all potential beneficiaries for funding. Innovative financing models such as blended finance and impact investing have emerged as tools for addressing risks and encouraging the private investments that can transform people’s lives and contribute toward Sendai Framework implementation. This session will discuss and explore the implementation and scale-up of innovative market-driven products and options for the financing of resilience.

Session objectives

  • Identify barriers to, and opportunities for, developing and implementing transformative disaster risk reduction financing.
  • Share examples of transformative financing options that demonstrably reduce risk and build resilience.
  • Relevant stakeholders from the public and private sector within the disaster risk reduction and financing communities, are engaged and committed to improve cooperation on transformative financing.
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  • Gerard Guèdègbé - Independent journalist

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  • Didier Trebucq - UN Resident Coordinator in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, United Nations Resident Coordinator Office
  • H.E. Walton Alfonso Webson - Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations
  • Don Iveson - Executive Advisor, Climate Investment and Community Resiliency, Co-Operators Insurance
  • Charlotte Benson - Unit Head, Disaster Risk Management, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank
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Read this section to learn more about the topic of innovative and transformative financing for resilience, ensuring you come prepared to the session. 

Where do we stand? 

While financing for disaster risk reduction has received significant attention, with high-level events and publications emphasizing the need for financing, key challenges remain. These include: 

  • Lack of specific measures to ensure resilience to future disasters. 
  • Insufficient financing for prevention.  
  • Lack of incentives for stakeholders to invest in prevention and resilience. 
  • Lack of comprehensive and layered financial strategies.  

At the same time, there are opportunities which could put us on the path to sustainability and resilience. These include: 

  • Accelerate financing in prevention through mechanisms such as blended finance, Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) standards, bonds and integrated national financing frameworks (INFFs).  
  • Mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction in the activities of financial institutions. 
  • Introduce prevention as a key criterion in ESG standards, as well as in existing bonds (climate-resilience bonds, green bonds, social and sustainability linked bonds), to help leverage finance for prevention, adaptation and mitigation actions. 
  • Identify paths for improved cooperation between sectors and stakeholders for holistic decision-making and implementation of options 

Session guiding questions 

  • In what ways are current finance models contributing or not contributing to resilience? What barriers need to be removed? 
  • What sorts of innovative models are there that could be scaled up and implemented in different contexts?
  • What policies and incentives for financing should be put in place to meaningfully engage different stakeholders?
  • How can we ensure that humanitarian, development, DRR and climate change financing mechanisms support resilience in a more coherent, efficient and effective manner?
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  • New Zealand (Jo Horrocks) 

  • Australia / DFAT (Inge Stokkel) 

  • GIZ (Oliver Milosch, Matthias Range) 

  • The Nature Conservancy (Eric Roberts) 

  • University of York/UK and Future Earth (Knowledge Action Network) (Paul Hudson) 

  • Global Urban Development (Jane Katz) 

  • Adaptation Research Alliance (Jesse DeMaria-Kinney, Poorti Sapatnekar) 

  • Global Policy House (Michelle Nsanzumuco Chivunga) 

  • Womenvai (Yvette Ramos) 

  • Phonenix Cretro - Private sector (Kirill Savrassov) 

  • World Farmers’ Organization (Luisa Volpe) 

  • UN DESA (Resina Katafono) 

Enhancing Understanding and Management of Disaster Risk in Humanitarian Contexts

In a world experiencing increasingly unpredictable and intense moments of fragility, stemming from human-induced climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, violence and conflict, protracted crises make up about 80% of the humanitarian portfolio. Without more effective ways to understand the nature of risk in protracted crises, the number of communities in need of humanitarian assistance will only increase. This at a time when reducing vulnerability is critical to preventing hazards from turning into disasters. This session will highlight the challenges related to managing disaster risk in complex and protracted emergencies, while providing concrete recommendations of how to address these challenges. Panelists and exchanges with participants on good practices will demonstrate ways of treating risk drivers differently, considering common analysis frames that address intersectional vulnerability. Recommendations will be made of how to connect action to progressive financing and partnership options to make gains stick. 

Session Objectives

This session aims to strengthen understanding of how to address multi-hazard and systemic risk across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in protracted crises and complex emergencies.

It also seeks to identify ways to address systemic challenges and barriers, including underlying risk drivers, siloed financing and planning, for instance through comprehensive DRR pathways tailored to specific contexts.

Finally, this session will inspire transformative commitments from humanitarian and development actors as well as research, public and private finance, donors, governments and media, to take new approaches to managing risk in complex emergency contexts.

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    • Irwin Loy - Asia editor, The New Humanitarian

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    • H.E. Marina Berg – Ambassador, Embassy of Sweden, Jakarta
    • Gernot Laganda - Chief, Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction, World Food Programme
    • Banak Dei Wal - Director-General for Disaster Management, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs & Disaster Management, South Sudan
    • Pablo Ruiz Hiebra - UN Resident Coordinator for Uruguay, United Nations Resident Coordinator Office
    • Aisha Jamshed - Country Director, Pakistan, Welthungerhilfe
    • Maina Talia – Secretary, Tuvalu Climate Action Network
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    Where do we stand

    In a world where humanitarian emergencies, driven by conflicts, violent insecurity, human-induced global warming and the recent COVID-19 pandemic, do not cease to decrease, better understanding systemic risk and implementing DRR approaches is a necessity. Key challenges needing to be addressed include: 

    • Systemic and multi-hazard nature of risk blurs the boundaries between individual risk factors, threats, borders and sectors. 
    • Complexity of protracted crises and humanitarian emergencies renders controlling hazards and threats particularly difficult for the actors involved, as it is often outside of their mandates and capacities. 
    • Difficulty of addressing root risk drivers, such as inequality, and key barriers to DRR implementation, such as siloed financing and planning 

    Parallelly, key opportunities for addressing DRR in humanitarian contexts include

    • Implementing joint approaches across the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus, where a very diverse range of actors can cooperate and complement each other’s activities, for example in terms of risk analysis and DRR planning. 
    • Jointly addressing the intersectional vulnerability associated with conflict contexts is a practical and important way of reducing risk. 
    • Developing multi-year and flexible financing allows humanitarian-development actors and communities to plan ahead. 

    Session guiding questions

    • How must risk assessment and analysis be adapted to account for the unique characteristics that make reducing disaster risk different in complex emergencies? 
    • What are the gaps in addressing DRR in crisis settings and how might these be overcome? 
    • What collaboration is needed between HDP nexus organizations, Government agencies and donors to reduce drivers of risk? 
    • What kinds of changes are needed in our financing and partnership modalities to unlock disaster risk reduction bottlenecks in complex emergency settings? 
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    • Bangladesh, Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies 
    • Ecuador, National Service for Risk and Emergency Management (SNGRE) 
    • The Philippines, Office of Civil Defense 
    • United States, Agency for International Development (USAID) 
    • German Red Cross 
    • Habitat for Humanity International 
    • HelpAge India 
    • Integrated Research on Disaster Risk 
    • International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EBA) Network 
    • Mercy Corps 
    • Organización Venezolana de Jóvenes para las Naciones Unidas (OVJNU) Venezuela 
    • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 
    • World Food Programme (WFP)  
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    Implementing Nature-based Solutions to Reduce Systemic Risk

    Over the last twenty years, 7,348 major disaster events were recorded, claiming about 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people and costing the global economy approximately US$2.97 trillion. At the heart of these systemic risks as well as non-systemic disaster risks is our disconnected relationship with nature as well as the strong socio-economic inequalities between and within countries. This session is designed to: 

    1. Showcase how and why Nature-based Solutions (NbS) need to be an integral part of decision-making for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA), and how NbS can help address root causes of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as climate risks and socioeconomic inequalities; 
    2. Generate commitment to further mainstream NbS into risk-based decision-making in all sectors by identifying means of action and success factors; 
    3. Share knowledge and best practices to address existing challenges and the potential and current barriers of implementation. 

    Session Objectives

    This session will discuss how Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can be implemented in order to reduce systemic risks. More specifically, it will aim to: 

    • Raise awareness and knowledge on the use of NbS for reducing and managing systemic risks 
    • Encourage governments, policy makers, Civil Society Organisations and private sector to step-up their commitments in implementing, reporting and financing Nature-based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction, as well as in using technology transfers for the design and implementation of NbS for DRR and CCA 
    • Inspire donors to allocate more considerable funds for the implementation of projects and initiatives aimed at promoting good practices using NBS. 
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    • Luther Anukur - Regional Director, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

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    • Karina Whalley - Head of Public Sector, AXA Climate
    • Tabi Joda - Director, GreenAid international
    • Sonja Leighton-Kone - Acting Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
    • Carolina Díaz Giraldo - Director of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia, National Planning Department
    • Muchamad Saparis Soedarjanto - Director of Planning and monitoring of the Watershed Management, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia
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    Read this section to learn more about the topic of Nature-based Solutions for disaster risk reduction, ensuring you come prepared for the session. 

    Where do we stand 

    NbS for DRR and CCA are being implemented worldwide. Yet, their inclusion in national and local DRR and CCA strategies is still rare, and no country has reported on them in the Sendai Framework Monitor. This session will be an opportunity to identify and tackle the main challenges related to NbS implementation in DRR: 

    • Lack of financing, technology transfers and innovative solutions for the implementation of NbS in DRR/CCA 
    • Lack of awareness on the benefits provided by NbS 
    • Lack of knowledge on efficacy parameters (i.e. thresholds) and key performance indicators 

    NbS offer the following opportunities for reducing disaster risk: 

    • Improved knowledge and awareness of dynamics of hazards, exposure, vulnerabilities and resilience of both societies and ecosystems 
    • Synchronization of NbS for DRR/CCA with programmes targeted to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, climate risks and socioeconomic inequalities; 
    • Integration of risk-based decision making in sectoral policies and planning, e.g. agriculture, fishery, aquaculture and forestry 
    • Better harmony of individuals and communities with nature 

    Session guiding questions

    • What is the added value of NbS implementation to systemic risk reduction? 
    • How can we scale up NbS good practices for DRR/CCA under different institutional and disaster contexts? 
    • What is needed to strategically integrate NbS in DRR/CCA decision-making that also contributes to the achievement of multiple societal objectives? 
    • What are the barriers to the implementation of NbS for DRR and how can we strategically address these through innovative approaches? 
    • Which financing mechanisms are available to enable NbS? 
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    • Cameroon, Ministry of Environment 
    • People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Natural Resources 
    • Colombia, Gestion del Riesgo 
    • Sri Lanka, National Building Research Organization  
    • Asian Disaster Preparedness Center 
    • Canadian Institute of Planners 
    • Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa, University of the Free State 
    • HelpAge International 
    • Indigenous Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction Network 
    • InsuResilience Global Partnership 
    • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH 
    • Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) 
    • The World Farmers’ Organisation 
    • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

    Breaking the Silos – Towards multi-hazard, multi-sectoral approaches to managing risks

    Strengthening resilience in the face of complex shocks requires transitioning away from treating hazards in isolation to recognizing the systemic nature of risk. Shocks typically cascade and compound in complex ways with broad social, economic, and environmental implications. A better understanding of the systemic and multi-sector nature of risk is essential for accelerating risk-informed action by governments, communities, and businesses.    
    This GP2022 Thematic Session will showcase emerging practices in multi-hazard, multi-sectoral approaches to risk assessment and risk governance.   

     

    This session will: 

    • Showcase good practice, use cases, and learnings from multi-hazard and multi-sector risk assessments  conducted at regional, national, and sub-national levels.  
    • Advance the state-of-the-art of multi-hazard risk assessment  by sharing  methodologies, approaches  and  tools  for  scenario building, modelling, and predictive analytics for risk reduction.  
    • Promote ‘silos busters’ and advance multi-sectoral partnerships.  
    • Improve risk governance by accelerating  cooperation  to effectively manage inter-connected and systemic risks. 
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    • David Smith - Coordinator, Institute for Sustainable Development, The University of the West Indies

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    • Olaf Neußner - Independent expert, German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV)
    • Nasreen Elzen - Civil / Water Resources Engineer, Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation, Sudan
    • Peter Binder - Director-General, MeteoSwiss
    • Bijay Kumar - Executive Director, Global network of civil society organizations for disaster reduction (GNDR)
    • Susana Juangco - Director, Office of Civil Defense, Philippines
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    Join the session to learn more about the latest practices in multi-hazard and multi-sector risk assessments, established to meet the challenges emerging from increasingly interconnected and systemic risks. 

    Where do we stand? 

    A survey by the OECD highlighted that while many countries had strategies to manage risks in some critical infrastructure sectors, few map interdependencies across sectors and only half have the capacity to identify new, unforeseen and complex crises (OECD, 2018).  The COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis further underscore the need to address these shortcomings. The increasing frequency and scale of shocks calls for application of better risk analytics to guide and underpin national and sectoral plans, investments, and resilience building. 

    The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction stipulates that the global community must come to terms with a new understanding of the dynamic nature of systemic risks. New structures are needed to govern risk in complex, adaptive systems and new tools for risk-informed decision making are required. Only with such approaches can human societies flourish amid uncertainty. Coming to terms with the limitations of a hazard-by-hazard view of risk management, the Sendai Framework encourages dialogue and action to refine, extend and enhance our ability to understand and manage systemic risks.  

    Member States, the UN system, and partners need to be better equipped to undertake multi-hazard and multi-sectoral risk assessments. More cross-sectoral collaboration is needed in order to move beyond linear risk analysis. Interconnected and systemic risk requires informed multi-stakeholder action.

    Session guiding questions 

    • How can we transition from hazard-by-hazard risk assessments towards multi-hazard and multi-sectoral risk assessments? 
    • What lessons, good practices and use-cases can be distilled from emerging practices, and what approaches can be pointed to that have been effective in reducing aggregate risk and barriers across sectors? 
    • What does this transition to assessing multi-hazard, multi-sectoral and inter-connected risk mean for communities of practice in terms of building the state-of-the-art, ensuring the fitness of analytic tools and approaches, improving risk data and information ecosystems, and broader risk governance across institutions at multiple levels? 
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    • Alexander Rudloff, International Science Council, GeoUnions Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction  

    • Andrea Davis, The Resiliency Initiative 

    • Christophe Lienert, Steering Committee on Intervention in Natural Hazards, Switzerland  

    • Daniel Tsegai, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)  

    • Denis Chang Seng, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)  

    • Esline Garaebiti, Ministry for Climate Change Adaptation, Meteorology, Geohazards, Environment, Energy and Disaster Management, Vanuatu  

    • Felix Dodds, University of North Carolina  

    • Franziska Hirsch, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)  

    • Gothami Chandraratne, Janathakshan (Gte) Ltd, Sri Lanka  

    • Hongliang Zhang, Ministry of Emergency Management, People's Republic of China  

    • Janaka Hemathilake, Janathakshan (Gte) Ltd, Sri Lanka  

    • Jane Henrici, Women's Major Group  

    • Marcie Roth, World Institute on Disability  

    • Max Linsen, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)  

    • Orhan Altan, International Science Council GeoUnions Standing Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction  

    • Shiro Kawakita, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

    Diversity in Disaster Risk Reduction Leadership

    The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines the inclusive, all-of-society approach that is needed to reduce disaster risks. It explicitly recognises the need to promote women and youth leadership and to empower women and persons with disabilities to publicly lead and promote gender equitable and universally accessible disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, and risk informed and resilient development. However, truly inclusive diverse leadership must extend beyond the three groups explicitly mentioned. Addressing the structural barriers, capacity gaps, discriminatory attitudes and stereotypes that continue to restrict participation in decision-making, including in DRR, must be a priority to effectively manage disaster risk and build resilience.  

    Session objectives 

    This session will: 

    • Showcase the transformative impact that diversity in DRR leadership can have on risk informed development and resilience that leaves no one behind. 
    • Stocktake progress and recognise the skills, knowledge and achievements of diverse leaders that are building resilience in their communities. 
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    • Amal Ridene - Young Climate Change Negotiator,  
    • Abel Walekhwa - Deputy Secretary General, Africa Youth Advisory Board on Disaster Risk Reduction, African Union Commission

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    • Sarah Knibbs - Officer-in-Charge, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UN-Women
    • Lizra Fabien - Executive Director, ARISE Dominica | Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce
    • David Zambrano Maya - President, Community Risk Management Committee of Olón
    • Noelene Nabulivou - Executive Director, Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for equality
    • Elham Youssefian - Inclusive Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Advisor, International Disability Alliance
    • Manuel Bessler - Deputy Director-General and Head of Humanitarian Aid Department, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
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    Where do we stand? 

    Increasingly, there is recognition that diverse leadership is fundamental for challenging and addressing norms and discriminations that drive unequal disaster risk; and for ensuring more effective and resilient outcomes that leave no one behind. Yet significant barriers remain for women, persons with disabilities, youth, elderly, and other groups most at risk to take a transformative leadership role and meaningfully participate in disaster risk reduction recovery and resilience building. These barriers include: 

    • Lack of targeted funding 
    • Inadequate capacity development and challenges in accessing knowledge and skills for leadership 
    • Insufficient coordination between representative organisations and DRR/climate change adaptation/resilience actors 
    • Collective influencing and advocacy power of national and local groups to ensure DRR/resilience processes are influenced by their priorities, needs and capacities. 

    At the same time, there are opportunities, which could accelerate diverse leadership in DRR and resilience building and fast-track gender-responsive and inclusive implementation of the Sendai Framework. These opportunities include 

    • Building awareness of the rationale for diverse leadership in DRR and how diversity in decision-making can reduce disaster risk for all 
    • Identifying the enablers of change to overcome key barriers to diverse leadership 
    • Disseminating and applying existing tools to measure and accelerate progress 
    • Securing commitments to move beyond box ticking to systemic inclusion of diversity 
    • Identifying priority actions for different stakeholder groups. 

    Session guiding questions 

    • How can diverse leadership drive progress in achieving the implementation of the Sendai Framework? 
    • What are the primary enablers to diverse and transformative leadership in DRR and resilience building?  

    For more information: 

    Women's Leadership
    Women’s resilience to disasters
    1 Million Youth Actions Challenge
    The 1 Million Youth Actions Challenge- Video 

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    • Alinne Olvera, United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth 
    • Lida García, National Service for Risk and Emergency Management, Ecuador 
    • Diana Hiscock, HelpAge International 
    • Sandra Delali Kemeh, Africa Youth Advisory Board on Disaster Risk Reduction 
    • Saidy Lamin, National Disaster Management Agency, The Gambia 
    • Sergio Perez & Daniel Maselli, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland 
    • Maryline Py & Ingo Piegeler, UNFPA 
    • Sarah Selby & Rahel Steinbach, UN Women 
    • Stefan Tromel, International Labour Organisation 

    Building a Better Future: Investing in Resilient Infrastructure for All

    Sustainable and resilient infrastructure provides communities and the environment with their first line of defense against shocks and is critical for the support it provides in recovery efforts. Robust and resilient infrastructure are key drivers of local and national economic growth. 
    However, evidence shows that existing infrastructure systems and the services they provide are increasingly being affected by natural and man-made hazards, and from the impacts of climate change. The current approach to managing and financing disaster risk reduction is lagging behind the rapid rate of creation and increasing complexity of disaster risk. 

    The session will look into several important issues that require concerted efforts: 

    • Establishing overarching benchmarks for resilient infrastructure 
    • Increase and improve data collection on SF Target D 
    • Include infrastructure resilience in national DRR strategies  
    • Promote a ‘Think Resilience’ approach to all infrastructure investments, 
    • Urge international financial institutions and development banks, as well as national financial institutions, to align their strategies, operations and activities with the 2030 initiatives. 
    • Consider specific country requirements (e.g. SIDS and LDCs) and specific needs of the most vulnerable. 

    Session objectives 

    • Improve the understanding of what “infrastructure resilience” means and how to accelerate its implementation. 
    • Showcase ways for inclusion of infrastructure resilience into national DRR and Climate Change Adaptation strategies; 
    • Discuss means to improve data collection in relation to Sendai Framework (SF) Target D objectives in a manner that ensures no one is left behind (e.g. improve segregated data collection); 
    • Showcase how applying a ‘Think Resilience ‘approach in infrastructure investment and decision-making can ensure infrastructure is sustainable and resilient. 
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    Rania Hammad, [email protected] Nicholas Ramos, [email protected] Abhilash Panda, [email protected]
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    • Kamal Kishore - Member, NDMA, National Disaster Management Authority, Ministry of Home Affairs, India

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    • Dena Assaf - UN Resident Coordinator for United Arab Emirates, United Nations Resident Coordinator Office
    • Rob Wesseling - President & CEO, Co-Operators
    • Hossam Elgamal - Co-Chair, ARISE Egypt
    • Hon. Esther Anyakun Davinia-Minister of State for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Uganda
    • Ms. Beata Janowczyk-Head of the Risk Assessment and Emergency Planning Unit in the Government Centre for Security in Poland
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    Join this session to learn more about decision-making and investments related to resilient infrastructure. 

    Where do we stand? 

    Key challenges in integrating resilience in infrastructure planning and management include: 

    • Lack of agreed upon terminology and resilience metrics 
    • Insufficient investment in prevention and resilience 
    • Regulatory frameworks do not take full account of risks and vulnerability and do not include resilience measures 

    At the same time, there are opportunities which could put us on the path to sustainability and resilience. These include: 

    • Establishing overarching benchmarks for resilient infrastructure 
    • Include infrastructure resilience in national DRR strategies and develop/update national and local regulations around infrastructure so that resilience measures are taken into consideration 
    • Promote a ‘Think Resilience’ approach to all infrastructure investments, creating an enabling policy and investment environment for the integration of resilience into infrastructure development 
    • Urge international financial institutions and development banks, as well as national financial institutions, to align their strategies, operations and activities with the 2030 initiatives. 

    Session guiding questions 

    • What do we understand by “resilient” infrastructure and what should some basic metrics of resilience look like? 
    • What are some good examples of national DRR strategies incorporating infrastructure resilience and in what ways? 
    • What tools and collaborations would best address the critical infrastructure damage and basic service disruption data gap in relation to SF Target D? 
    • What regulatory and policy changes would bring the most dividends to communities and would ensure the resilience of infrastructure? 
    • What kind of incentives could governments provide to private sectors to invest in resilience of infrastructure?  
    • What are some of the bottlenecks for increasing investment in resilient infrastructure? 
    • What measures and tools should we use to ensure that those investments are risk informed? 
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    • India / Ministry of External Affairs, Basir Ahmed 
    • WHO, Qudsia Huda  
    • UN-Habitat, Esteban Leon 
    • US Georgia Emergency Mgmt Agency, John Krolikowski 
    • JICA Bangladesh, Naoki Matsumura 
    • Wetlands International, Susanna Tol 
    • Global Buildings Performance Network, Kate McFarlane 
    • Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, Tanaji Sen 
    • Dominican Foundation for Risk Management, Delka Espinal 
    • Build Change, Monica Schroeder 
    • Women's Major Group, Jane Henrici  
    • WBU/African Broadcasting Union, Giacomo Mazzone 
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    Cooperation Across Borders for Strengthened Capacity and Action (Target F)

    In today’s interconnected world, risk is increasingly systemic, and disaster impacts cascade across boundaries. Strengthened risk governance and cooperation across borders is subsequently critical to manage and reduce disaster risk. Data shows that international financing for disaster response and recovery far outweigh financing for prevention and risk reduction. While increased official development assistance for disaster risk reduction (DRR) is certainly needed, international cooperation for DRR must go beyond funding to include support for capacity building as well as transfer and exchange of science, technology, and innovation. Cooperation must also go beyond traditional development assistance through traditional partners to cross-border networking between civil society organizations, academic institutions, and experts working on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. 
    This session will examine means to strengthen cross border cooperation for disaster risk reduction, and specifically across non-traditional actors and mechanisms. 

    Session objectives 

    • Share examples of successful South-South and triangular partnerships and transboundary cooperation initiatives for DRR that can be scaled up or replicated.   
    • Highlight means to strengthen international cooperation for DRR and the integration of DRR into financing for sustainable development and climate action. 
    • Consider the transfer and exchange of science, technology, and innovation in DRR between countries, providing recommendations for scaling up collaboration between public, private, academic, and science and technology sectors. 
    • Synthesize key steps required to boost multi-stakeholder cross-border partnerships for DRR in the coming years and ahead of 2030. 
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    Huw Beynon, [email protected] Rahul Sengupta, [email protected] Roberto Schiano Lomoriello, [email protected]
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    • Neeshad Shafi - Executive Director/ Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar/ Global Carbon Council

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    • Ken O'Flaherty - COP26 Regional Ambassador Asia-Pacific, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    • Olaya Dotel - Vice-minister for International Cooperation, Dominican Republic
    • Cristelle Pratt - Assistant Secretary-General, Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States Secretariat, Environment & Climate Action
    • Nuraini Rahma Hanifa - Secretary-General, U-INSPIRE Alliance, National research and innovation agency
    • Heidi Schroderus-Fox - Acting High Representative, The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
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    Read this section to learn more about the potential of cross border cooperation for strengthened DRR capacity and action to ensure you come prepared to the session. 

    Where do we stand? 

    Challenges 

    A mere 0.5% of the total amount of official development assistance between 2010 and 2019 was allocated to DRR. Moreover, only $5.5 billion was aimed at ex-ante risk reduction measures, compared to $119.8 billion spent on post-disaster response and recovery. Very few national development cooperation policies include disaster risk reduction. International development cooperation must become more risk-informed, given the increasingly complex risk landscape and the scope of resources and expertise required. A much broader range of experts and stakeholders must be engaged in cross-border collaboration for DRR. 

    Opportunities 

    Development cooperation can be a catalyst for disaster risk-informed domestic public and private investment as well as foreign direct investment. Yet traditional development partners cannot meet the scale of investment needed for DRR alone. COVID-19 recovery packages as well as C0P 26 commitments to increase financing for climate change adaptation provide opportunities to increase cross border collaboration for DRR. Moreover, the wealth of knowledge and expertise within civil society organizations, and academic, research and scientific institutions, in both developed and developing countries can be leveraged to strengthen cross-border cooperation and capacity support for DRR. 

    Cross-border cooperation between such organizations and actors: 

    • supports the exchange of risk data and science and technology for disaster risk reduction 
    • allows for more systemic and regular sharing of expertise, best practices and lessons learnt 
    • promotes coherence and synergies between their work 
    • supports cost-sharing for a more effective use of both financial and human resources more efficiently. 

    Session guiding questions 

    • How can DRR be better integrated into international development cooperation across all sectors? 
    • What kind of approaches to cross-border disaster risk governance and cooperation have been most effective, including across shared ecosystems, water resources, and infrastructure assets?  
    • What opportunities exist to better integrate academic, research, and science and technology institutions into cross-border cooperation for risk reduction? What types of policies, mechanisms and networks are needed? 
    • To what extent are South-South and triangular cooperation being sufficiently leveraged as means of implementation? 
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    Organizing Team members
    • National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Haruo Hayashi 
    • Solomon Islands, National Disaster Management Office, Loti Yates 
    • Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Elin Sari 
    • Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, Fang Lian 
    • The Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction, Gretchen Kalonji and Peng Cui  
    • The Asia Foundation, Nandita Baruah
    • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Plotnykova Hanna
    • UN Women, Laia Luthi

    Financing Local Investment Through Risk Informed and Bankable Strategies

    Investing in disaster risk reduction is a precondition for developing sustainably in a rapidly changing climate. It is estimated that global investments of €1.6 trillion in appropriate disaster risk reduction strategies could avoid losses of €6.4 trillion. However, the current level of DRR finance does not match the scale of the challenges. While several tools are available to support the development of inclusive local disaster risk reduction strategies and action plans, the challenge has been the conversion of the actions in these strategies into bankable projects. This session looks at how technical and institutional capacity may be developed at the local level to prepare and coordinate complex resilience project portfolios that can attract finance. 

    Session objectives 

    This session will: 

    • Analyze existing gaps and challenges hampering the ability to access and mobilize required financial resources;  
    • Understand how local governments and communities, including women’s organizations, have accessed funding and finance;  
    • Discuss practical solutions for developing risk informed and bankable resilience projects;
    • Identify opportunities for increasing national budgetary allocations and city revenue generation for DRR;
    • Deliver recommendations on what more needs to be done by stakeholders.
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    Sanjaya Bhatia, [email protected] Mutarika Pruksapong, [email protected] Abhilash Panda, [email protected]
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    • Maruxa Cardama - Secretary General, Stichting Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) Foundation

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    • Rocco Guarino - President, Provincia di Potenza, Italy
    • Samir Arfaoui - Head, Administrative affairs department, Tunisia
    • Tiza Mafira - Associate Director, Climate policy initiative
    • Godavari Dange - Secretary, Swayam Shikshan Prayog, Grassroots Women's Federation
    • Sameh Wahba - Global Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience & Land Global Practice, World Bank Group
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    Read this section to learn more about the topic of local financing for climate and disaster resilience, ensuring you come prepared to the session. 

    Where do we stand? 

    Investing in disaster risk reduction is a precondition for developing sustainably. Given the differentiated impact of disasters on women, children and other groups, an investment in gender, age and disability-responsive disaster risk reduction is needed. Studies indicate Benefit to Cost Ratios (BCRs) that range between $1.7 and $150 of benefit for every $1 spent on programming for women and girls. Also, with much of the socio-economic, infrastructural, and other development likely to take place in urban centers, there is a need to augment local financing for resilience. The climate finance flows for cities reached an estimated USD384 billion annual on average in 2017/2018. This is far less than existing needs, estimated at USD4.5 to 5.4 trillion annually. 

    At the same time, many grassroots groups have developed new financial mechanisms to help increase pre-disaster investments.  For example, the Community Resilience Fund (CRF) is a flexible financial mechanism that puts money at the hands of grassroots communities to develop risk-informed planning and actions, builds partnership with the local government and drives locally-led implementation. The municipality of Livingston, Izabal in Guatemala, agreed to finance actions aimed at community resilience, which are implemented by local leaders. The Municipality of Wiwili in Nicaragua, agreed to allocate a municipal fund of 10% for disaster risk reduction projects at the grassroots level, specifically targeting women's organizations.  
    But while successful examples exist, the question remains: “How can these examples be scaled up to achieve results across communities and continents?” 

    Session guiding questions 

    • How can local governments and communities work together for better access to financing that empowers the most vulnerable in decision making?  
    • How can civil society and women’s organizations influence financing decisions and policy making?  
    • What are the emerging trends for increasing the financing at the local level?  
    • At global, national, and community levels, what actions are needed to accelerate progress to strengthen capabilities and capacities of local governments to better prepare DRR/resilience project portfolios? 
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    Organizing Team members
    • Cameroon, Commune de Yaoundé
    • Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
    • Huairou Commission
    • Resilient Cities Catalyst
    • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
    • UN Women 

    Early Warning and Early Action

    The importance of multi-hazard early warning systems (Sendai’s Target G and Article 7 of the Paris Agreement) was highlighted in the 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC released in August 2021. The report provides evidence that extreme hydrometeorological events, such as droughts, floods and heat waves, are increasing as well as their impacts on everyday life around the globe as well as harming fragile ecosystem. It concludes that climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying.  

    This session will outline avenues to accelerate the implementation of people-centered, multi-hazard early warning systems, enabling early action, minimizing impact, reducing risks and contributing to strengthened resilience. It will review progress and trends in strengthening effectiveness of Early Warning / Early Action, including a review of contributions from different approaches, stakeholders and disciplines, and lessons learned through the lenses of the anticipatory/early action paradigm. Finally, this session will explore and conclude on the way forward to revitalize and accelerate achievement of Target G of the Sendai Framework for DRR.  

    Session Objectives 

    • Take stock of progress towards achieving Sendai Framework global target G with inclusive, effective and multi-hazard approaches to early warning systems that enable early action. 
    • Explore challenges and solutions in monitoring progress on Target G and guide implementation of early warning / early action to more effectively deliver on the Target G aspirations.  
    • Demonstrate value and benefits of investments in multi-hazard, multi-level early warning systems and inclusive early action and preparedness at national and local level. 
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    Sandra Amlang, [email protected] Iria Touzon Calle, [email protected] Diana Mosquera Calle, [email protected] Donna Mitzi Lagdameo, [email protected]
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    • Keith Campbell - Chief Executive Officer, Caribbean Broadcasting Union, Jamaica

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    • Petteri Taalas - Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organisation
    • Johan Stander - Director, Services Department, World Meteorological Organisation
    • H.E. Enamur Rahman - State Minister of Disaster Management and Relief, Bangladesh
    • Ahmed Amdihun - Programme Manager, Disaster Risk Management, Intergovernmental Authority on Development
    • Miluska, Ordoñez - Disaster Risk Management Expert, Practical Action
    • Sainimili, Tawake - Advisor - Inclusive Development, Pacific Disability Forum
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    Join the session to learn more about the latest discussions around Early Warning Systems including Early Action. 

    Where do we stand 

    Since 2006, the Early Warning System Checklist serves as a fundamental concept in early warning systems. It enhanced the understanding of early warning as a people-centered system with four key components (risk knowledge, monitoring and forecasting, dissemination and communication, and response capability).  

    While the international community has recognized the importance of early warning systems and significant progress has been achieved at regional, national and local level, challenges still remain, including: 

    • Increasing frequency and intensity of climatic events; 
    • Increasing population dynamics in hazardous zones; 
    • Slow and rapid onset pandemic; 
    • Conflicts posing new risks to people, livelihoods, infrastructure and services; 
    • Regional and global interconnectedness allowing propagation of risk and impacts across borders and systems; 
    • Digital inequalities causing a lack of access of marginalized groups to EW information; 
    • Need of improvement of multi-sector effective governance and financing mechanisms. 

    At the same time, the EW/EA offers key opportunities to maximize DRR implementation: 

    • Contributing to more precise and accessible warnings which provide actionable information for people and organizations alike; 
    • Enhanced effectiveness of preparedness to disasters; 
    • Strengthened people-centred inclusive approaches to multi-hazards; 
    • Progress made in terms of information and communication technology access and use; 
    • Increase in science, technology, climate and disaster risk data availability as well as forecasting and predictive modelling capacities. 

    Session guiding questions 

    • What is the role of EW/EA in averting, minimizing and addressing risks, losses and damages? 
    • What are the current opportunities and challenges to enhance effective and inclusive governance and financing of EWS? 
    • How can we trace the evolution of methodologies and tools to design and implement multi-hazard and risk-centered EWS that enable early action across scales? 
    • What is the wider application of EWEA to help reduce vulnerabilities to climate and disaster risk and reduce the impact of disasters on inequalities? 
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    Organizing Team members
    • Germany, Federal Foreign Office 

    • Morocco, Ministry of Interior, Direction Générale de la Protection Civile 

    • Palau, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service 

    • United States Agency for International Development (USAID) 

    • Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union 

    • Baha'i International Community  

    • CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission Germany 

    • Geological Society of Colombia 

    • International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 

    • The Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes, Kyoto University 

    • United Force for Development, Ghana 

    • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 

    • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 

    • World Meteorological Organization (WMO)