Improving global multi-hazard arrangements for volcanic eruptions

If we are serious about multi-hazard early warning systems, we need to address shortcomings in our global structures, for example with volcanoes. Volcanoes produce many different natural hazards that cross-disciplines and borders. Unlike in hydrometeorology, which has the World Meteorological Organization with clear responsibility for international coordination, there is no UN treaty level organization tasked to assist the world’s volcano observatories in running a globally coordinated system. This is a fixable problem and addressing it would provide great benefits.

 

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Speaker: Andrew Tupper

Natural Hazards Consulting

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Advancing DRR in building safe and resilient health facilities: lessons learnt from COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic along with concurrent emergencies, has exposed vulnerabilities and caused disruptions to health services in even the most robust health systems. Health facilities need to maintain maximum capacity of their services and functions during and immediately after major emergencies and disasters to ensure continuity of healthcare service provision and avoid excess mortality and morbidity, particularly among vulnerable populations.To do so, safe and resilient health facilities need to institute systems, procedures and capacities that address prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. In the response to the needs that emerged during COVID-19, several new tools were rapidly developed that complemented existing tools and built on the experience and lessons from the pandemic response and other emergencies. Country and hospital experience effective strategies to ensure uninterrupted health service delivery during emergencies and new tools will be shared and discussed.

Session objectives

  • Share innovations and experiences gained during the COVID-19 response to strengthen the safety, functionality and sustainability of health facilities
  • Discuss the central role of health facilities in managing health risks of emergencies and disasters in health systems and the whole-of-society
  • Ensure that investment in health facilities is central to  the comprehensive risk management strategies and in resilient critical infrastructure at global, national, local and community levels
  • Contribute to the knowledge base on managing complex and interconnected risks, such as pandemics and climate related emergencies
  • Discuss whole of society approaches and co-dependencies in reducing risk and building resilience for critical infrastructure
  • Identify best practices to accelerate the implementation, monitoring and reporting of the Sendai Framework focusing on health facilities through achieving concrete, tangible impact.

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Dr. Qudsia Huda, [email protected], Dr Kai Von Harbou, [email protected], Mrs Elleaine Tewolde, [email protected]
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BNDCC 2-Ground Floor
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Moderator

  1. Dr. Qudsia Huda, Head, Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Unit, WHO Headquarters

Speakers

  • Dr. Stella Chungong, Director, Health Security Preparedness, WHO HQ
  • Dr. Gerald Rockenschaub, Regional Emergency Director WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Dr Ray Pentecost III, Director, Union Internationale des Architects (UIA) - Public Health Group
  • Dr. Maria van Kerkhove, COVID-19 Technical Lead, WHO HQ
  • Dr. Iris Blom, International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations
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Emphasis will be on identifying and implementing good practices in health facility safety and resilience that contribute risk-informed and inclusive COVID-19 response, recovery and rehabilitation in humanitarian and low resource settings.

Where do we stand

Hospitals are a central to the resilience of communities, countries and theirhealth systems. Global frameworks for disaster risk reduction have recognized the important role of hospitals in local and national action to manage the risks of emergencies and disasters. Countries have established programs and conducted activities aimed at strengthening the safety and preparedness of health facilities so that they can operate with maximum functionality during emergencies and disasters. WHO and partners have developed and supported countries with tools and training that support health facility assessment, resource availability, health services, exercise management, disability, incident management and mass casualty management. Greater attention has been placed on ensuring that health facilities reduce their carbon footprint and waste and are able to with the effects of climate change. In the COVID-19 pandemic, countries identified needs for a set of tools, including for rapid assessment of hospital readiness for COVID-19 and the continuity of essential services, which have been applied in many countries, including in refugee settings. 

Session guiding questions

  1. What key innovations and solutions were found in COVID-19 to address challenges and strengthen the safety, functionality and sustainability of health facilities
  2. What are some operational examples of lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergencies and how were they  applied?
  3. What key actions are recommended for increasing investment to make hospitals more resilient to emergencies and disasters?
  4. What are examples of tools that were developed in COVID-19 and in what context were they applied (e.g. small island developing nations, fragile and violent contexts, low resource settings)?
  5. How can COVID-19 operational examples be applied to other types of emergencies?
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  • Jointly organized by World Health Organization, Ministry of Health of Guatemala

Using Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for emergency warning across multiple alerting authorities

This session shows the international standard Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) helping nations achieve coherent warning systems, without major disruption and at minimal expense. In any complex emergency, multiple trusted authorities are always involved. Each needs to communicate particular messages about the emergency. By using CAP to communicate the key facts coherently, the different authorities avoid confusing the public.

Eliot Christian is a leader of the worldwide movement to leverage the all-hazards, all-media Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard. He is a pro bono consultant working with many international companies and organizations, including AccuWeather, Google, IFRC, ITU, WMO and WBU, among others. Together with Ian Ibbotson, he runs the non-profit Alert-Hub.Org CIC, providing free, open source software: CAP Editor for publishing alerts and the cloud-based Filtered Alert Hub for disseminating alerts at any scale.

 

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Speaker: Eliot Christian

Alert-Hub.Org CIC

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MHEWC-III State of play on early warning systems: Progress on Target G & Stocktake for Sendai Framework Mid-Term Review

Session objectives

  1. Review global trends in extreme events and implications for cascading risk
  2. "Take stock" of progress in the implementation of Target G of the Sendai Framework and review gaps
  3. Report on latest trends in MHEWS and early action design, results, and impact and share knowledge, lessons learned, and emerging examples of good practices

 

 

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

 

The Sendai Framework was adopted by 187 Member States at the Forth United (UN) World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan, on March 18, 2015 “to achieve 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 over the next 15 years”.  

The Sendai Framework puts forward seven global targets including Target G: Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to people by 2030. 

While considerable progress has been made, for example, in terms of information and communication technology access and use, many challenges remain including reaching the “last mile”. It is estimated a third of people globally – mostly in developing countries – are still not covered by EWSs.  Integrating early warning systems into coherent multi-sector and multi-hazard risk governance and reaching all exposed and vulnerable populations in many countries remains a challenge. 

Seven years into the  implementation of  the  Framework, the  Disaster Risk Reduction community has an excellent opportunity to take stock of where we are, what we have accomplished, what we have learned, and to jointly explore how we can collectively transform our engagement  to  accelerate progress in achieving the Framework’s ambitions.  Moreover, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has tasked the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to lead an effort in collaboration with other UN agencies to address the gap in early warning access and present an action plan by 27th  Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the UNFCCC in November 2022, to achieve the goal that Early Warning Systems protecting everyone within five years . 

The mid-point of Sendai Framework implementation marks a time of increased global urgency. Disasters strike at an unprecedented rate, with the most recent decade experiencing an over three-fold increase in the frequency of disaster occurrence, compared to the 1980s. Disasters are also becoming more costly, disrupting critical services and economic activities, setting back the global economy by an average of USD 170 billion every year.   

 

 

Agenda

 

Panel 1: Speakers from different regions will share progress, challenges and solutions

Panel 2: Good practice examples of EWS to enable action, and remaining challenges and solutions.

Concluding session: Stocktake on progress on ensuring early warning is accessible and for Sendai Framework Mid-Term Review.

 

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On behalf of the co-chairs of IN-MHEWS (UNOOSA/ UN-SPIDER and WMO), [email protected]
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    The mid-point of Sendai Framework implementation marks a time of increased global urgency. Disasters strike at an unprecedented rate, with the most recent decade experiencing an over three-fold increase in the frequency of disaster occurrence, compared to the 1980s. Moreover, disasters are also becoming more costly, setting back the global economy by an average of USD 170 billion every year.  Reducing mortality, the number of people injured, displaced, and left without a livelihood has never been more challenging given the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic.  

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    • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
    • World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

    Other contributing partners: 

    • Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP)
    • United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) / UN-SPIDER

    Local Leaders Forum: Towards Inclusive, Safe, Resilient & Sustainable Cities

    Local governments are on the ‘frontline of opportunity’ to protect lives, livelihoods and their infrastructure assets and systems. The Local Leaders Forum will showcase how municipalities are using disaster risk management to strengthen resilience across various sectors and achieve progress against the SDGs. The Forum is organized by the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) global partnership which aims to Leave No Municipality Behind as they scale up their climate and disaster risk reduction action. MCR2030 has more than 1,000 member cities and municipalities as well as 200 service providers offering a range of tools and supports to local governments.
     

    Session objectives

    1. Capture practical experiences and learnings from local governments of ‘SDGs in Action’
    2. Provide policy recommendations for local governments to scale up their progress towards the SDGs
    3. Guide how the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) global partnership can better support local governments to be more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
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    Andy McElroy - [email protected], Sanjaya Bhtia – [email protected], Mutarika Pruksapong – [email protected]
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    BICC Ground Floor
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    As we approach the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development progress against the 17 SDGs is struggling in several areas. What happens at the sub-national level in the second half of the 2030 Agenda will, in large part, determine the level of progress achieved by the end of the decade. Over the past 7 years many Mayors and local leaders have used the Sendai Framework as guide to develop more inclusive and integrated local resilience assessments and planning as a basis for action to reduce climate and disaster risk. However, a significant scale up and localization of action on SDGs is needed ahead of 2030.


    Session guiding questions

    1. What lesson can your municipality share from its experience of implementing particular SDG 1, 3, 11, 13?
    2. What are your policy recommendations for consideration to be included in the Global Platform Chair’s Summary?
    3. How can MCR2030 better support your local government to be more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable
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    • BNPB
    • UCLG
    • ICLEI.

    Pursuing social connections to leave no one behind: The perspective of a faith-based organization in a time of social distancing

    The COVID-19 pandemic has caused social, economic, and health crises, and in particular, has severely affected people in vulnerable situations. To leave no one behind in the response to and recovery from the pandemic, faith actors and faith-based organizations (FBOs) have connected with individuals at the grassroots level.

    In this presentation, Soka Gakkai International will showcase relevant experiences in Japan and share the findings of a joint research project together with other FBOs, in the hope of advancing global DRR efforts.

     

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    Speaker: Nobuyuki Asai

    Soka Gakkai International

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    Disaster risk reduction and health in the Asia-Pacific region: Policy integration, gender equality and human rights

    This presentation shares findings from a policy review that shows the connections between disaster risk reduction and health, in existing policies at the regional and sub-regional levels in Asia and the Pacific. It also reviews how these policies address human rights and gender equality, which are drivers of vulnerability to both disaster and health risks, at the intersection of the two arenas. While policies have increasingly interwoven health and disaster risk reduction, most miss human rights and gender issues in this interlocking policy nexus.

     

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    Speaker: Minh Tran

    Stockholm Environment Institute

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    Importance of investment in disaster risk reduction

    As the population is growing and urbanization is progressing, higher numbers of people are exposed to disaster risks, especially in developing countries. Climate change is further worsening the impacts of existing risks and introducing new ones. To date, various international arenas have recommended increasing investment in DRR. The Sendai Framework for DRR, adopted by the UN member states in 2015 during the Third UN World Conference on DRR, emphasizes investment as a priority for decreasing disaster risks and losses. It is imperative that countries need to invest more in disaster risk reduction (DRR) as well as climate change adaptation (CCA) not only to minimize their impacts but also to build resilience.

     

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    Speaker: Daisuke Sasaki

    International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) Tohoku University

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    An effective multi-hazard early warning system for the Africa we want

    The Africa Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Early Action (AMHEWAS) Programme strengthens continental, regional and national capacities to collect, exchange and analyse data relevant to multi-disaster and impact-based early warning systems and cross-border disaster risk management in Africa.

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    Speaker: Gatkuoth Kai

    African Union Commission (AUC)

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    Assessing and preparing social protection systems for disaster response - sharing an innovative tool and its application in countries

    Social protection has deep relevance for CCA, DRR and Disaster Response, and can be a mechanism to support people when they need it the most. However, not all social protection systems are geared to respond to covariate shocks. UNICEF has developed a tool that helps to assess the preparedness of social protection systems & incrementally strengthen them. This tool creates a unique opportunity for DRR and social protection stakeholders to collaborate on operationalizing the priority actions outlined in the Sendai Framework for DRR. This session presents the tool & an example of its application.

     

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    Speaker: Nupur Kukrety

    UNICEF

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