HLD2: Strengthening disaster risk governance for transformative action and outcomes
Disaster risk governance is the cornerstone of the Sendai Framework. While two thirds of countries have established national DRR strategies, effective implementation of multisectoral risk governance requires considerable improvements. To accelerate DRR and resilience in the remaining five years of the Sendai Framework and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it is critical to reassess governance mechanisms and institutional structures with a systems-thinking approach. It is important to strengthen policy coherence, including with climate action, for more effective national and local implementation. This high-level dialogue will explore good practices in disaster risk governance, emphasizing community-driven and gender-responsive approaches.
UNDRR Focal Points
- Mr. Animesh Kumar
- Ms. Gabrielle Emery
- Mr. Lukas Johann Edbauer
Organizing Team experts
- Ms. Helen Gosteli, Swiss National Platform for Natural Hazards PLANAT
- Ms. Kathatina Lotzen, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany
- Ms. Victoria Hugelshofer, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany
- Ms. Angelika Planitz, United Nations Development Programme
- Dr. Qudsia Huda, World Health Organization
- Ms. Katherine Sotomayor, Major Group of Children & Youth
- Mr. Murat Karypov, Public Association Bir Duino Kyrgyzstan
- Mr. Exsley Taloiburi, Pacific Community (SPC)
- Ms. Teea Tira, Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
- Mr. Kevin Blanchard, DRR Dynamics
Live stream:
Moderator
- Manal Bernoussi, International MC & Moderator
Speakers
- Mr. Valder Ribeiro de Moura, Vice Minister, Ministry of Integration and Regional Development, Brazil
- Mr. Niels Annen, State Secretary, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany
- Mr. Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), video message
- Ms. Rhonda Robinson, Director, Geoscience, Energy and Maritime Division, The Pacific Community (SPC)
- Dr. Ahmed Amdihun, Regional Programme Coordinator (Disaster Risk Management), Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Kenya
- Ms. Ghada Ahmedin, Program Director, Arab Network for Environment and Development & Member, Global Council of GNDR, Egypt
Learn more
- International Health Regulation (2005)
- Planitz, A. (2015). Disaster Risk Governance and the Principles of Good Governance. In Davis, Georgieva, Yanagisawa (eds.): Disaster Risk Reduction for Economic Growth and Livelihood. Investing in Resilience and Development
- UNDP (2015). Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance: UNDP Support during the HFA Implementation Period 2005-2015
- UNDP (2017). 10 Things to Know: disaster and climate risk governance in UNDP
- UNDP (2020a). Risk-Informed Development: A Strategy Tool for Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Development
- UNDP (2020b). A Way Forward: Governing in Age of Emergence
- UNDP (2022a). The UNDP Approach to Risk-Informed Development.
- UNDP (2022b). Towards an Actionable Framework for Governing Systemic Risk. UNDP Global Policy Network Policy Brief, Development Futures Series
- UNDP and ODI (2019). Risk-Informed Development: From Crisis to Resilience.
- UNDP Discussion Paper (2021). The Social Construction of Systemic Risk: Towards an Actionable Framework for Risk Governance.
- UNDP Policy Brief (2023). Choosing Your Tomorrows: Using Foresight and Anticipatory Governance to Explore Multiple Futures in Support of RiskInformed Development
- UNDRR – Resources on disaster risk governance
- UNDRR – Comprehensive risk management approach for integrated DRR and climate action
- UNDRR – Resources on disaster risk governance
- WHO – Everyone's business: Whole-of-society action to manage health risks and reduce socio-economic impacts of emergencies and disasters: Operational guidance
- WHO – Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Framework
- WHO – Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Reduction Glossary
- WHO – Strategic Toolkit for Assessing risks
Agenda
04 Jun 2025
14:00 - 15:30 (CEST+0 Europe/Berlin)
Location
Plenary A
CICG
CICG
Online access
Remote participation available to those registered for the conference
Live stream available to all
Interpretation
AR, EN, FR, RU, ES, ZHDetails
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