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) 

Registration 

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

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. 

This is a hands on interactive learning event focused on Impact-based forecasts and Forecast-based financing. 

Session objectives

The main objective of this session is to create a space for sharing learning, exchanging experiences and building partnerships around impact-based forecasting and anticipatory action. Hydro-meteorological agencies have developed considerable expertise and capacity in providing hydrometeorological forecast and warning services. Complementing these efforts, other organizations are incorporating concepts of vulnerability and exposure which can be used to develop impact-based forecasts that can trigger early or anticipatory action by disaster managers, humanitarian actors and communities at-risk. Over the past 8 years the humanitarian community (Red Cross Red Crescent, UN agencies, NGOs) has gained extensive experience implementing Forecast-based Financing/anticipatory action programmes, alongside government agencies and scientific partners. Such experiences demonstrate the value of investing resources in the development of partnerships with defined roles, responsibilities, and accountability structures to co-develop frameworks that enable early action by communities at risk. 

The session will highlight national-level impact-based forecasting and anticipatory action journeys through the lens of practitioners and government representatives. Experiences will be shared on multi-stakeholder collaboration, partnership building and co-creation, for example, joint trigger development, data sharing agreements, simulation exercises and training. An interactive discussion will follow to collect wider experiences of participants and facilitate exchange around specific challenges or needs.  

Participants will then be asked to share their needs for continued knowledge exchange, learning and guidance around enabling impact-based forecasting and anticipatory action to generate an initial Action Plan for the Anticipation Hub and supporting partners.  

Expected Outcomes

• Collect experiences and lessons on what worked well and not so well along different practitioner and government journeys towards impact-based forecasting and anticipatory action. 

• Facilitate connections and inspire new partnerships to advance impact-based forecasting and anticipatory action at country and regional level.  

• Collect a wishlist on how the Anticipation Hub, WMO, and other partners can facilitate continued exchange around impact-based forecasting and anticipatory action to meet the needs of hydro-met and government actors.  

Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions - What is Anticipatory Action and Impact Based Forecasting? Where are the synergies? 
• Part 1: Journeys on Impact Based Forecasting and Anticipatory Action from Africa - Uganda and Burkina Faso 
• Part 2: Journeys on Impact Based Forecasting and Anticipatory Action in Asia - Nepal and Bangladeesh
• World Cafe group discussion
  • Discussion question: What can you learn from this case study to apply in your content? Do you expect similar challenges/ opportunities? Have you similar/ different experiences of FBF / IBF in the region? 
  • Discussion question: What is needed (training, knowledge sharing, advocacy) to speed up your IBF / AA journey? 
• Plenary discussion and Feedback
• Next Steps and Action Plan
• Wrap up

This session will highlight concrete examples of adolescent girls' and youth's adaptive capacity to disaster risk, changing climate and the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia, zooming in on the experience in Indonesia, Myanmar, Timor- Leste, Thailand, Philippines, Bangladesh and Nepal in the implementation of Child-Centred and Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and COVID-19 response.

The COVID pandemic has strongly affected people with disability across the entire world, as well as reinforcing barriers and stigmatization. However, it has also opened dialogue about new inclusive processes to ensure the protection and participation of persons with disabilities and open advocacy spaces through the increased use of virtual modalities.

The goal of the GIRDD-LAC Network is to promote the meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in all DRM processes, from joint risk analysis, planning, implementation and evaluation processes and to showcase initiatives from Latin America. In this session, the GIRDDD-LAC Network wants to illustrate the slogan "Nothing about us without us" showcasing several initiatives that were developed by the Network and its members to promote the full participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations in disaster risk management decision-making processes.

In this Ignite Stage presentation the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) will showcase Australia’s new Systemic Disaster Risk Handbook, that AIDR produced in the midst of COVID-19 last year. The new Handbook is cutting edge. It works from the premise that we are in a new era of disaster risk management, the age of taking a hazard-by-hazard risk approach is over and that when we view risk through a systems lens we better understand the dynamic moving parts that make up a system, as well as the people and places affected by our decisions. This reality has been brought into clear focus by the impacts of COVID-19, extreme weather events and compounding disasters in all corners of the globe. The new Handbook presents principles and guidance to support a shift to systemic disaster risk reduction, inclusive governance and decision-making for resilience and sustainability. It supports implementation of the Sendai Framework and Australia’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework.

While the Handbook is a core component of Australia’s disaster risk guidance, the principles can be adopted internationally. For example, when confronted with compounding and challenging disasters, thinking globally while acting locally is a must; and the first principle in the Handbook is to ‘Embrace Uncertainty’. COVID has taught us that the changing risk context involves greater uncertainty and that there are many different perspectives to be negotiated. Inclusive approaches to governance and systems thinking can help chart the way forward.

In this session, Amanda Leck will will share the key messages and principles in the Handbook and showcase how decision makers in Australia are leading the way towards systemic disaster risk thinking and action.

Framed in the COVID-19 context, this presentation will provide information on how communities can plan for economic recovery after a disaster through increased focus on disaster financial literacy. The presentation will introduce lessons learned from recent disasters and will provide an overview of currently available resources and tools for disaster planning, opportunities to develop stronger partnerships between community actors, and best practices for utilizing available resources. By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to identify key elements of financial literacy, including critical components of pre-disaster planning, recognize ways to coordinate intermediate and long-term plans among community partners who can support financial recovery, identify elements of a personal and organizational economic recovery plan that incorporates resources from public, private, and volunteer agencies in their communities.

Josh DeVincenzo is a Research Associate II, Sr. Instructional Designer, and Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness. His focus is on developing learning experiences associated with training projects that navigate disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience. At NCDP, he has developed national scale instructor-led and web-based curricula regarding financial literacy, economic impact analysis, and community partnerships. Josh hopes to create accessible and quality educational programming that benefits the common good at scale, particularly around themes of climate change. Josh has also developed and taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Teachers College of Columbia University, the Columbia University Earth Institute Professional Learning Programs, and the School of Professional Studies. Josh is currently an adjunct lecturer at Columbia Climate School’s graduate program on Climate & Society. He holds a master’s degree in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and is currently a doctoral candidate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on climate pedagogy has been published in the Journal of International Affairs, State of Planet and the Hill.