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This ‘Words into Action’ event responded to stakeholders wanting to engage & support working with children & youth on DRR and CCA, but unsure where to start.  It introduced practical tools for governments, agencies, CSOs, the private sector, academia and scientists to support inclusive, gender responsive, child & youth engagement under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework and Paris Climate Agreement.

Children and youth, alongside the Children in a Changing Climate Coalition, shared experience, tools and guidance. This was followed by an intergenerational dialogue, and a ‘Children’s Call for Climate Action Now’, informed by the GP children and youth forum, regional consultations and the children’s climate cards to promote inclusivity & gender equity.

The session was structured by the four Sendai Priorities.  ‘Live scribing and cartooning’ innovatively captured key learning and ideas. The resulting session recommendations and vision aim to influence and inform the Sendai Framework stocktaking process, the progress joint statement and resulting GPDRR messages and outcomes, to ensure timely uptake of session vision and recommendations.   

Session objectives

1. SHARE practical experience, tools and guidance to engage and support working with children and youth on DRR and CCA under the Sendai Priority Frameworks 
2. EXCHANGE in an intergenerational discussion to advance meaningful and inclusive engagement of all children and youth on DRR and CCA going forward 
3. INSPIRE action going forward and engagement in the Children in a Changing Climate Coalition 
4. INFORM the stocktaking process of the Sendai Framework, the progress joint statement and resulting GPDRR messages and outcomes through session recommendations and vision

This online side event will: 

• Relook at changing forms of communication among stakeholders that are required for planning and evaluation, leaving nobody behind - children, youth across all generations, women and gender minorities, PWDs, ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, urban and rural poor, and so on. 
• Bring old and new methods of advertising and media together, from TV and radio to vlogs and podcasts, even to the up-and-coming Metaworld. We believe, if there is a future - it is together. 
• Analyze the role of social media as a powerful and revolutionary instrument for making DRR, Climate Change, and SDG decision-making more inclusive, participative, and empowering. 

Session objectives

1. To discuss and evaluate the various media's involvement in disaster risk management and climate action at the global, regional, national, and local levels. 
2. To identify significant knowledge & information gaps and possibilities to increase the role of media as a powerful and  transformative tool in making disaster risk reduction and climate action more inclusive and wide. 
3. To determine the most effective ways for media platforms to return power to marginalized groups and provide space and venues to share their stories in their voices, free of bias. 
4. To make a collective commitment from media partners, both private, public with state owned, the UN, and youth & children, to  improve new media collaboration for disaster risk reduction and   climate action. 

Disasters can affect everyone. However, individuals that belong to the most at-risk groups such as persons with disabilities face higher risks and are disproportionately affected due to a wide range of barriers, including stigma and discrimination. 

CBM, alongside its partners is promoting disability inclusive disaster risk reduction globally, including facilitating organizations of people with disabilities (OPDs) to participate in and lead DRR activities.

At this event, four panelists will present good practices and success stories from their roles in ensuring disability inclusion in DRR in a Covid-19 impacted world. 

The panel will:  

• stress the importance of the inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in humanitarian and development activities  
• highlight examples of persons with disabilities acting as important DRR resources and change agents within their communities  
• promote efforts for mainstreaming disability inclusion in DRR.

Session objectives

• Present key insights from the field from several contexts and identifying good practice as well as issues of concern in implementing DRR from perspectives of an OPD, a mainstream civil society network, government, the United Nations, academia, and a specialist organisation. 
• Encourage OPDs through success stories to claim their right for participation in DRR. 
• Set an example for a range of stakeholders on how to engage key players in disaster risk reduction programming and implementation for robust disability inclusion. 

While there are many discussions focusing on the challenges of infrastructure resilience, this side event will offer solutions for practitioners to achieving outcomes of infrastructure resilience. 

The purpose of the side event is to present the latest version of the Principles for Resilient Infrastructure and to provide practical solutions for infrastructure resilience to all levels of government, institutions, donors, investors, owners, regulators, operators, designers and contractors, service providers, and international organisations by demonstrating how the Principles and other tools can be implemented to contribute to positive economic, social and environmental outcomes. 

During this event, various stakeholders along with our co-organizers will discuss how the Principles and resilient infrastructure tools such as CDRI’s lexicon, OECD’s good governance for critical infrastructure resilience and ICE’s knowledge platforms can be applicable and implemented for specific sectors and industries, as well as holistically to achieve infrastructure resilience. 

Session objectives

With the overall intention of raising awareness and understanding on resilience of infrastructure, the objectives of the side event are to:  

1. Present the Principles for Resilient Infrastructure Report 
2. Elaborate on the concept of ‘net resilience gain’ 
3. Illustrate how to implement the Principles for Resilient Infrastructure  
4. Introduce policy instruments and tools for resilient infrastructure (CDRI’s lexicon, OECD’s Good Governance for Critical Infrastructure Resilience and ICE’s knowledge platforms) 

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The Sendai Framework urges national and subnational governments to address the understanding, quantification and appropriate policies and interventions to manage systemic risk. To open a constructive dialogue on entry points for decision making and action arising from work on multi-hazard urban risk reduction, this session brings together a diversity of perspectives drawing on the experiences of various stakeholders learning from the UKRI-GCRF Tomorrow’s Cities Hub.

The session advocates that a better understanding of systemic risk can be achieved by promoting people-centred decision making that accounts for the dynamic interactions between multiple hazards, vulnerabilities, capacities, and impacts across space. Our collective experience confirms that this framing enables policy actors to address the challenge of mainstreaming multi-hazard risk reduction into urban planning and development. This primarily consists of opening spaces for actors to engage in collaborative processes that bring local voices and science into policymaking at both city and national levels. 

Session objectives

This session’s objectives include: 

1.  Attempt to understand systemic risk from an urban, multi-hazard perspective, including viewpoints from academia, professional associations, national governments and international organisations.   
2. Consider ways to support the management of dynamic multi-hazard risk in cities and urban areas.  
3.  Discuss innovative governance frameworks for mainstreaming multi-hazard risk into urban planning and development toward empowering the most at risk. 

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In the management and governance of both natural and technological hazards and risks, understanding of multi-hazard and multisector risks is becoming increasingly relevant – and challenging, as acknowledged in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and more recently, translated into the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) Roadmap 2021-2030, among other DRR-related strategies.  Extreme weather-events, many of which are in turn hydro-meteorological events (floods, droughts, landslides or storms), are increasing due to the changing climate. More intense and more frequent extreme whether events may have cascading effects, triggering technological disasters. A clear governance response to climate change in the context of technological risks is still to be developed in many countries. This session will discuss challenges and good examples of how countries and organizations worldwide address the link between climate change, natural hazards and technological risk management in transboundary lakes and river basins, with a focus on governance.  

Session objectives

The session aims to: 

1. Enhance understanding of how good practices and multi-hazard/multi-risk approaches can be mainstreamed into DRR strategies and governance structures, notably national platforms and river/lake basins organisations. 
2. Present examples on how governance can be enhanced through implementation of international legal instruments, notably the Water and Industrial Accidents Conventions. 
3. Discuss how the Sendai Framework and the EFDRR Roadmap 2021-2030 can inspire further actions to strengthen governance and risk management. 
4. Identify challenges and good practices in countries developing transboundary cooperation mechanisms. 
5. Highlight how actions strengthening governance and transboundary cooperation can support the cross-fertilization of SDGs. 

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The COVID-19 pandemic and other disasters have wreaked havoc through disruption of business operations, supply chains and economic activity. These impacts especially affect Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) that account for more than 90% of businesses and 50% of employers around the world. MSMEs play a major role in global and local economies and, as a major source of families and communities’ income, it is critical to ensure their resilience to sustain livelihoods. The business sector can significantly contribute to protecting children and their families from shocks and stresses of disasters by directing their core expertise, operational capacities and networks to strengthen the resilience of local communities and markets and to enhance the efficiency of humanitarian actions. This session has been formally requested by and will be co-chaired with the Government of Indonesia, the host for GPDRR, to showcase and exchange on business engagement in disaster resilience among governments, private sector, UN, donors and civil society in Indonesia, regionally and globally.  

Session objectives

1. Demonstrate Indonesia’s progress on a national framework for business engagement in disaster resilience and on sector-specific initiatives on mobilizing business to support children in humanitarian action and DRR in relation to the experiences of other countries. 
2. Present concrete examples of how multi-stakeholder and bilateral public-private partnerships serve to catalyze and accelerate humanitarian preparedness and resilience.  
3. Based on regional and global frameworks, identify priority actions that can promote partnerships among the government, private sector and the UN when it comes to multi-hazard resilience of at-risk communities, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and the broader business community. 
4. Provide recommendations for reducing the exposure and vulnerability of at-risk communities and the private sector. 

Expected outcomes include:  

1. Awareness on the public-private partnership promoted through practical examples facilitated by the governments at policy level.  
2. Awareness on the national, regional and global initiatives, such as Business and Community Resilience (BCR), OCHA-UNDP Connecting Business initiative (CBi) and UNDRR ARISE increased and practical experience shared.  
3. Joint multi-stakeholders’ commitments for public-private partnership towards disaster resilience of businesses and communities re-affirmed 

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The Reception and Poster Session will offer an opportunity for MHEWC-III attendees to network and learn from the poster presenters about early warning initiatives.

MHEWC-III Posters

Posters will provide an opportunity for presenters to showcase their early warning initiatives. A selection of posters will be printed and showcased at the MHEWC-III in the Bali International Convention Center (BICC), Bali, Indonesia. Posters will also be showcased on the Conference website. Successful applicants will be invited to attend the poster session in person on 23 May 2022 and discuss the content of their posters with attendees during a Poster Session.

Posters will be showcased by from the following entities, covering topics on early warning systems that enable early action to save lives and livelihoods:

•      National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs)
•      Research and academia
•      Regional organizations
•      Civil protection agencies
•      The international community
•      Private sector entities
•      Other stakeholders

Not everyone faces the same risk from disasters. People with disabilities and other at-risk groups are often forgotten in disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs and left behind when disaster happens. They are excluded from disaster preparedness measures, are invisible when it comes to community mapping or evacuation, find it harder to access shelters and safe spaces due to environmental barriers or protection risks, and receive inadequate or inappropriate relief and support when they suffer from disaster loss. To address this disproportional risk of persons with disabilities, CBM in partnership with a national civil society organisation called Centre for Disability in Development (CDD), have started disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction (DiDRR) programming in rural communities in Gaibandha region, Bangladesh, in 2009.

During this Ignite Stage presentation, CBM highlight the main learnings from the long-term intervention on DiDRR. Not only do they present on the successful outcomes and replicable approaches, they also look at the remaining gaps, and critically reflect on whether the established community based DiDRR systems are able to continue working without further external financial and technical support from CBM.

Oliver has been working in the development and disability sector for more than 11 years. Since 2016 he worked as a Humanitarian Coordinator for CBM. Oliver is based in Germany and supports the global planning and implementation of humanitarian and DRR programs of CBM. As part of his role he is also involved in training programs that supports the capacity and development of disability inclusive humanitarian and DRR action.

This in-person Side Event will highlight the progress of implementation of inclusive DRR actions with “Dhaka Declaration” and share the innovative approaches implemented by each stakeholder from different region. 

Amid COVID-19 situation, disasters have continued to affect disproportionally to disadvantageous groups including the persons with disabilities. 

Government of Bangladesh has taken strong initiatives to promote inclusive disaster risk reduction after applying SFDRR. “Dhaka Declaration” was adopted in December 2015 and the evolved version of “Dhaka Declaration+” was adopted in May 2018 through International Conference on Disability and Disaster Risk Management. 

Article 59 of Chair’s Summary in GPDRR 2017 pointed out “The Global Platform recognized the importance of the Dhaka Declaration on Disability and Disaster Risk Management as practical guidance”. 

In the GPDRR 2019, Bangladesh organized the Side Event. Reflecting on the discussions, Article 37 of Co-Chair’s Summary stressed the importance of implementation for local inclusive practices by each stakeholder. 

Session objectives

1. Review the global progress and local actions of implementation of Dhaka Declaration as well as different initiatives in inclusive DRR amid pandemic situations 
2. Share an innovative and integrated approach of different stakeholders’ experiences and challenges of inclusive disaster risk management 
3. Demonstrate global good practices on inclusive disaster risk reduction planning, response and reconstruction 
4. Extract key elements and strategies for moving forward to achieve the goals of SFDRR and SDGs through action of Dhaka Declaration