This GP2022 Learning Labs will allow to exchange best practices from all continents, shared by participants (media professionals and journalists) coming from regions at risk of climate change huge impact.

• Regional Experiences of early alert systems
• Examples of crisis impacting on media infrastructures across regions
• Examples of communication in times of crisis

Session Objectives

1. Learning from various best (and worst) practices try to build up a sharable methodology across the regions
2. Build a network of experiences and best practices across regions

The Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) is an open platform for sharing data across crises and organizations. Launched in July 2014, the goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis. In 2021, HDX was used by 1.4 million people in 236 countries and territories, maintaining the growth seen in previous years. Organizations regularly add new datasets to the platform, bringing the total to over 19,000 datasets, which were downloaded over 1.8 million times in 2021 alone. HDX is managed by OCHA's Centre for Humanitarian Data, which is located in The Hague. OCHA is part of the United Nations Secretariat and is responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies. The HDX team includes OCHA staff and a number of consultants who are based in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. 

This session talks about HDX, the HDX Data Grids, the datasets that the participants can find and use for analysis on HDX related to disaster risk reduction, as well as some of the work the Centre’s team does on anticipatory action in humanitarian response.

Women Major Group is one of the UNDRR’s 17 stakeholder constituencies that works to mobilize and support women’s engagement in the UNDRR processes and ensure policies and decisions center realities and agency of women and girls in all their diversities and alter relations of power to end structural inequalities which exacerbate vulnerability. The 7th global platform is the first UNDRR in-person gathering since the pandemic and the last before the midterm review of the Sendai framework. The Women Major Group is taking the opportunity, to convene members of the constituency, partners, and allies to reflect and strategize toward Sendai midterm review.

The women’s major group at UNDRR aims to host this session to reconnect with constituency members, partners, and, allies during the 7th Global platform in Bali by the reflecting on the realities of women in disasters and their engagement in the policy process while strategizing and developing a concrete yearlong plans towards Sendai midterm reviews.

Session objectives

The session is designed to deliver

• A comprehensive position paper of the Women Major Group with policy and programme demands for GPDRR and Sendai Review Process to consider
• An engagement plan of the Women Major Group in Sendai midterm review

As the convenor of the Community Practitioners Platform for Resilience (CPPR), the Huairou Commission will facilitate dialogue among the representatives of grassroots organizations from impoverished and hazard-prone communities participating in the Global Platform in Bali.

Organized grassroots groups have leveraged their own expertise, resources and social capital to introduce solutions for reducing disaster risk and building gender-just resilient communities.

The Sendai Mid-Term Review is positioned as a valuable organizing tool that can be used for collective learning and collaborative planning as leaders of grassroots organizations take stock of their contributions and the progress and challenges observed more broadly.

This session will advance a collaborative process for reviewing progress since Sendai. Grassroots experiences in innovating and scaling up DRR will be presented, plans for using the MTR to aggregate evidence will be considered and strategies for advocacy and outreach to partners throughout our time at Global Platform will be discussed.

Session objectives

1. Share grassroots practices and lessons from local implementation of the Sendai framework for DRR
2. Propose approaches to aggregating evidence of grassroots-led implementation of SFDRR for the Mid Term Review
3. Identify opportunities to scale-up partnerships for accelerating local implementation of SFDRR
4. Develop shared agenda for for the MTR and advocacy at the Global Platform

This in person and online side event will: 

• Engage the audience through interactive theatre to gain different perspectives in the challenges and opportunities in early warning and early action  
• Explore themes such as relationships, multi-faceted nature of vulnerability, governance arrangements to address systemic risk in DRR and climate change adaptation, gender equality and women’s leadership, and enabling elements for effective early warning and early action  
• Provoke thought, discussion and understanding to meet the UN SG’s alerts for all in five years  

Session objectives

1. Raise awareness on the importance of a multi-stakeholder coordination and inclusive and gender sensitive approaches to EW EA efforts to foster trust, support action, and achieve positive impact;  
2. Jointly explore challenges and solutions in simulated ‘threat environments’; share good practice; 
3. Overall the session aims to create a fun, interactive, and inspirational learning environment to deepen understanding and exchange on the connections between early warning / early action and promote social change to enhance the effectiveness of these efforts. 

This Ignite Stage session presents a new online resource called Earth Observations (EO) Risk Toolkit, as an integral part of the National Risk Information Portal (RiX) under the UNDRR’s flagship initiative called the Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF). EO Risk Toolkit is a new hub site, launched during the GP2022, and it is designed to provide DRR users with access to open-sourced tools and services that leverage Earth Observations. GRAF was premised on the Global Assessment Report 2019 to improve risk analytics around interconnected and systemic risk, including the multiplier effect climate change has on vulnerability and the risk landscape. By engaging with government partners, the UN development and humanitarian system and other global and national partners, GRAF supports countries to strengthen their risk data ecosystems.

To help achieve GRAF’s aim, RiX is being established to aggregate open-source risk datasets and information to help drive harmonization and standardization aligned to the Hazard Definition and Classification Review.  As an integral part of RiX, EO Risk Toolkit provides DRR users direct links to a collection of open and free disaster risk analytical tools and services to be used at country level, accompanied by supporting documents. More specifically, EO Risk toolkit comes with use cases and technical guidance of the tools and services as well as thematically oriented policy briefs to help policy makers and practitioners understand how to better leverage the EO data and products in policy-making and DRR operations. 

The target audience for this presentation are potential users of the EO Risk Toolkits, such as emergency responding agencies of national and local governments and development agencies so that they can find the tools and services suitable for their operations. The presentation highlights the importance of Earth Observations as the critical science-basis for DRR policy-making and operations. It introduces a brand new EO Risk Toolkit that helps policy makers and practitioners in policy-making and DRR operations. This session emphasises that the Toolkit provides direct links to EO-leveraged open tools and services to monitor and analyse disaster risks, such as those related to floods, crops and wildfires. 

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.