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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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 

At the 7th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali, Indonesia, a special session will be held ahead of launching a new communications campaign in 2022 in support of Indigenous Disaster Risk Reduction. This session will gather delegates, including delegates from the indigenous community to discuss the key priorities of engagement ahead.

The session will take place on Thursday 26th May, at 9.00 am in the Mengwi Room 6+7+8 of Nusa Dua Convention Center, Bali. Please note that this session will be in hybrid format.

All interested delegates are warmly invited to join.

Session objectives

Hazards forecasting and warnings are a crucial element of understanding and managing systemic, cascading and compounding risk. Significant advances in the technology of observation and data management have created enormous opportunities in terms of complex modelling for hazard forecasting and risk assessment. However, these types of data and research advancement are often not incorporated in the operational services domain. In addition, operational ocean monitoring and forecasting systems (e.g. AI or Ml based forecasts) and tools (e.g. 3D printers to use weather station) with specific applications (e.g. heat waves, oil spills etc) are limited to few centres and countries. This is seen as the big scientific, innovation and capacity challenge to address. Furthermore, within the operational domain, many of the forecast and risk information services that are in use are not being translated for community application to covert risk information into risk management at local level reduce. As climate change increasingly poses a threat to resilience and other sustainable development goals, a change in mindset in early warning system and disaster risk reduction is required to link emerging technology with operational implementation and society. Addressing complex mechanisms and sources that trigger hazards (e.g 15 January Tonga volcanic eruption and tsunami) also underlines the challenge and opportunities of the next generation of forecasting and warning systems.   This calls for people centred, collaborative co-design and co-production combined with harnessing advances in science, technology and engineering solutions. It could accelerate proactive scenario based pre and post disaster risk assessments based on multi-hazard forecasting and warning information, which when developed through engaging multiple stakeholders will ensure that early warning and risk information is useful, usable and used. 

The objective of this session is to understand the perspectives of the communities most at risks. The session will provide an opportunity to the audience to understand the how the process of ‘Views from the Frontline 2019’ (the flagship program of GNDR) has helped these communities to identify their own risks and develop their own plans to address the issues and get them integrated in their local development plan; thus ensuring that the development is risk informed. 

Through live connection, the session will be hearing voices directly of communities on the frontline of risk from Zimbabwe and Cambodia, and will be supported by in-person presentation and pre-recorded videos.

This session will take place in Room Mengwi 6+7+8.