A key element of good governance is effective preparation. The protection of lives and livelihoods is a vital responsibility and central to a prevention agenda. This requires building consensus among all members of society to know and understand their particular roles and responsibilities. An inclusive, participatory process is required, and there are demonstrated success stories from which we can learn.

In this session we aim to look at a few examples and understand the forces which lead to the success of effective and inclusive processes, the factors which limit the impact, and what can be shared as others also seek to benefit from increasingly diverse participation.

Session objectives 

• Share experiences, good practices and lessons learned of inclusive governance in the implementation of the Sendai Framework.
• Identify elements of successful governance and inclusion that we wish to see replicated.
• Understand how previous barriers to good governance and inclusion were overcome and document those strategies.

In this interactive session, participants will learn the concept of communication for disaster risk reduction for communities in Disaster Risk Assessment through Mandatory Disaster Management Training programs. This good practice has been running for more than a decade as an effort to reduce disaster risk in an effort to form a community disaster-resilience carried out by the Geological Agency in synergy with the Regional Government, Non-Governmental Organizations, communities and volunteers at Merapi volcano.

Session Objectives

• Introduce the concept of Mandatory Disaster Management Training
• Explain the challenges of disaster communication in Disaster Risk Assessment
• Understand the collaboration of disaster management parties in efforts to reduce disaster risk at Merapi Volcano
• Help participants to take practical and strategic steps to start Mandatory Disaster Management Training
• Support the government's long-term collaboration in disaster management from global to regional levels, the business sector, NGOs, communities and volunteers

In the face of climate change threats and disaster crises, local communities are organizing, partnering and devising strategies to scale adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction actions that advance resilient development. These actions, and as the UN Commission on the Status of Women has recently reaffirmed the leadership of women's and girls in communities, are key to achieve progress on the implementation of global policy frameworks such as the Sendai Framework for DRR, the Paris Agreement and the SDGs, yet rarely do grassroots women, local communities and other local actors have a voice in the decisions that most affect them. We need to shift the status quo from current top-down approaches to a new model where local actors have greater decision making power, access to financial resources and institutional support to build resilience 

Partnerships between community-led organizations, local governments, multilateral and bilateral institutions and other development partners reinforces efforts to scale and accelerate the local implementation of national policies and global frameworks through resourcing community-based organizations, including women-led organizations, with flexible funds for learning, capacity building, innovation and integrating them into public decision making and policy spaces. Such collaboration also helps in empowering women and their communities and leads to transformative change. As community-based organizations are familiarized with and contribute to government mechanisms, policies and programs, and as government and other stakeholders become more familiar with the expertise in communities, collaborative plans emerge that accelerate progress in implementing the Sendai Framework.

Through a community of practice, in this session local actors and partners will share progress and lessons learned to enhance understanding of what is needed for effective, equitable locally led adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction, with a particular focus on partnerships and flexible financing.

Session objectives

1. To discuss how local actors, including women-led, community -based organizations in poor communities, scale up and accelerate the implementation of the Sendai Framework
2. To understand the challenges faced and opportunities for initiating and sustaining partnership between grassroots, community-based organizations, government and other institutional and financial partners to accelerate the implementation of the Sendai Framework
3. To identify immediate entry points for collaboration

This session invites all civils society organizations to join the NGO Major Group constituency to discuss the SEM NGO Major Group official statement. The official statement sets out 8 key call to action points that civil society urge global decision makers and member states to focus on in order to achieve the targets set out in the Sendai Framework. It will also provide an opportunity for civil society organizations to come together, collaborate and strengthen participation in the NGO Major Group constituency of the SEM.

The past three years have shown that risk compounds risk, and that humanity is quickly approaching dangerous tipping points which require tremendous preventative action. To take but one example, in 2022, an estimated 274 million people will face hunger, conflict, and displacement as a result of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The NGO Major Group recognizes conflict and protracted crises as further examples of the systemic nature and global connectedness of risk. The risks we face are often the result of development priorities which do not reflect the true aspirations of people and communities.

This could be remedied by allocating appropriate resources for disaster risk reduction and risk-informed development with an emphasis on reaching the local level. Consensus on this matter should be translated into meaningful action.

Specifically, decision makers at global, national and local level are urged to champion (1) localisation, (2) risk-informed development and (3) collaboration for an all of society approach to disaster risk reduction.
 

Session Objectives 

• Share the NGO Major Group declaration/ official statement that was submitted to UN DRR ahead of the Global Platform. This includes stocktaking on the Sendai Framework for Action and sets out key recommendations for global decision makers and members states moving forward
• Open a space for civil society to discuss the eight key areas included in the NGO declaration / official statement
• Provide the space for civil society to collaboration and strengthen coordination

This session seeks to raise awareness of disaster displacement and the need to integrate disaster displacement into local and national DRR strategies among GP22 participants. The Platform on Disaster Displacement, the Norwegian Refugee Council and partners will present the Platform’s DRR and Displacement Policy Brief and Key Messages and provide an overview of disaster displacement-related events taking place throughout the Platform. These include Ignite sessions, an exhibition on the Words into Action on disaster displacement guidance, checklist and elearning, and the engagement of artists, among others.

Session objectives

• Provide an introduction to the topic of disaster displacement along with an overview of strides made in international, regional and national policy processes and frameworks.
• Share key policy messages on disaster displacement.
• Learn and coordinate how partners plan to engage in disaster displacement advocacy at GP22.

Partnerships and all-of-society approaches lie at the heart of effective disaster risk reduction. Building resilience and promoting risk-informed decision-making and investment are collective challenges and responsibilities, which call upon a collaboration between governments, the United Nations and other international organizations and stakeholder groups at large.

The UNDRR Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (SEM) was created in 2018, to support the implementation of Sendai Framework paragraph (36) and (48) which outlines the role of stakeholders in building resilience.

This session will showcase the commitment of the SEM stakeholders` group in implementing the Sendai Framework, and more specifically the SEM Action Plan. The panel will invite representatives of the SEM stakeholder groups to report on the outcome of the Stakeholder Forums constituency sessions, as well as their work on a whole of society approach in building resilience.

Session objectives

1. Provide a space for SEM stakeholder groups to report on the outcome of the constituency focused sessions in the 2nd Stakeholder Forum.
2. Showcase good practice in an all-of society approach in building resilience, and the benefit it brings to the wider society.

Online Attendance

This session will be live-streamed online. Note that it is live-streamlining and no active online participation. You can access the live streaming through this link: 

To reach a sustainable and resilient world for all it is of importance that there is a policy coherence between all relevant policies at all levels, from local to international level.

The UNDRR Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (UNDRR-SEM) is thereby engaging not just in solely disaster risk reduction avenues, but in all-hazard knowledge generation, climate change policy development, disaster risk financing and most importantly community empowerment. We have seen that resilience is dependent upon the capacity of a community to respond in times of crisis.

During the first half of the 2nd day of the 7th GPDRR Stakeholder Forum, its participants took part in interactive and outcome oriented smaller parallel sessions. The session will serve as an opportunity for all to learn of the outcomes from these parallel sessions.

Session Objectives 

•  Ensure that the knowledge generated from the Stakeholder Forum parallel sessions is shared among all stakeholder groups attendees and other participants in the Stakeholder Forum.
• Reduce the potential of silos among DRR stakeholders, and ensure coherence between actions of stakeholders engaged in implementing the Sendai Framework.
• Demonstrate that while we, as the stakeholders of DRR, may have specific areas of interest, we are working for a common goal, namely ensuring that all parts of society have enhanced capacity of managing striking hazards and that the risks of disasters to occur are minimised through structural changes and integration of risk-reduction in all development plans.

Online Attendance

This session will be live-streamed online. Note that it is live-streamlining and no active online participation. You can access the live streaming through this link: 

Watch the event recording here:

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.