Flooding is a natural hazard that inflicts devastating consequences on many communities in Nigeria; it occurs every year and causes loss of life, livelihood and infrastructure to most vulnerable communities. Despite the fact that the governments of the country are making excellent efforts to reduce the risks of flooding in Nigeria, there is a slight gap in access and communication flood hazard early warning information, especially at the community level.

Based on the backdrop, Taiwo founded an initiative called the Geohazard Risk Mapping Initiative. A youth-led initiative that brings together youths to contribute to achieving Priority 1 and 4 of the Sendai framework, and improves flood preparedness in Nigeria using advanced geospatial technology to collectively map the susceptibility level of the community to floods during the 2021 raining season.

The current COVID-19 epidemic has become the strongest indication that governance capacities at various levels of government fall short of delivering adequate responses to Complex, Global Emergencies (CGE). This session brings together actionable information, suitable frameworks, and principles to navigate the new demands for local governments leading responses to CGE. These results come from the Emergency Governance Initiative EGI — an initiative by LSE Cities, UCLG and Metropolis — that aims to build institutional capacities for more effective territorial responses to CGE.

This video provides a short explanation of a national pool of risk assessment experts as a way for Indonesia to overcome the critical lack of risk assessors with national quality standards to support regional sub-national governments with scientific and evidence-based risk assessment.

In this Ignite Stage session, the CADRI Partners - UN & IFRC - will present what the CADRI Tool can deliver for governments. The tool has been designed to support countries in their efforts to strengthening their national and local capacities to reduce disaster and climate related risks. It is a ground breaking offer to governments to help identify the best adapted policies, methodologies, tools, or financing mechanisms to help address the risks they face in different sectors. The tool is meant to support governments to shift from response centric systems to risk informed planning.

This presentation is about the NTT Province Government learnings from their response to Tropical Cyclone Seroja. It elaborates on five learnings, four innovations that the government has undertaken upon the learnings, and explains the emerging results and changes. Inclusive and collaborative preparedness, as well as good data and information management are key.

The Girl and The Tsunami is the story of Martina, a 12 year old girl who saved her community in the tsunami of 2010 in the island of Juan Fernandez, Chile. This is an animated documentary based on real events. It is presented by the producers, Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch from PACIFICO and Bernardo Aliaga from UNESCO. This documentary celebrates unknown heroes like Martina who take the lead to protect their communities in a moment of crisis. This story also aims to trigger a conversation about tsunamis before they happen, and help us build a new connection of respect with the ocean.

Disasters in the State of Rio de Janeiro have occurred with frequency and intensity and accompany the disorderly expansion of urban areas due to global climate change. The government of the State of Rio de Janeiro, through the Secretary of State for Civil Defense, concerned with this increase in adverse events, implemented several public policies aimed at reducing the risk of disasters in the summer period. This is when there is the greatest increase in occurrences.

Rio de Janeiro State developed a Contingency Plan for heavy rains in the summer period 2021-2022. This contingency plan aims to guide complementary actions in support of local governments that have their response capacity partially or substantially compromised. The plan guides preparedness and response actions in the event of a disaster caused by heavy rains. These rains cause multiple disasters with geological and hydrological consequences (landslides, floods, flash floods).

This recording presents the framework for integrating human rights and gender equality (FIRE) into DRR. It describes the six dimensions of the Framework and introduces a number of practical tools that have been developed based on FIRE. The Framework is a major output of the Building Resilience through Inclusive and Climate-Adaptive Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia-Pacific (BRDR) programme, which brought together the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Stockholm Environment Institute and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency.

DARAJA, which means ‘bridge’ in Swahili, is a service and partnership that aims to improve weather and climate information services (WCIS), including early warnings of extreme weather for urban users. By adopting a systems-wide approach, DARAJA builds ‘bridges’ and operational partnerships between the actors critical to the co-design of the products, dissemination channels and feedback loops for weather forecasts and extreme weather alerts. The DARAJA service has been piloted already in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam with strong impact results. These included a 20:1 benefit cost ratio (BCR) in enhanced productivity and avoided climate related damage and loss to users. The service is also being adapted for deployment into Small Island States (SIDS) via a demonstrator for the Caribbean based in Kingston, Jamaica (IDB).

This presentation is a direct invitation to participants to join the science-policy interface expert group that is tackling the global governance of Global Catastrophic Risks. These types of risks are low probability/high impact events that can bring humanity to collapse and they are also defined as events where more than 10% of the human population is lost (misaligned AI, nuclear winter, super-volcanic eruptions, extreme consequences of climate change, among others). The group's mission is to build an expert network that is capable of effectively working to support the global governance of GCR by the use of scientific evidence and diplomacy.