Shaping a Sustainable Tomorrow: Aligning the Sendai Midterm Review with The Pact for the Future

The Pact for the Future is a comprehensive global framework designed to shape a resilient and sustainable future by addressing critical contemporary and emerging challenges. Its primary objective is to foster collective action, innovation, and inclusivity to better anticipate, prepare for, and respond to crises—including climate change, technological disruptions, conflicts, pandemics, and environmental degradation.

To expedite Sendai Framework implementation, a strengthened global governance system is imperative—a transformation the Pact actively supports. It is important to clarify that global governance is not a centralized authority but is driven forward by a dynamic, multi-actor process involving international organizations, treaties, and non-binding agreements centred on the experiences of affected peoples. This collaborative, holistic and multi-layered approach is vital for addressing global challenges through cooperation and dialogue.

Session objectives

• To reaffirm the importance of Disaster Risk Reduction as a key component of the “Pact for the Future” and the role of stakeholders in upholding its principles and its call to action

Outcomes

• Ensure that stakeholders in attendance at the session can connect the “Pact for the Future” to their work on Disaster Risk Reduction
• Provide ideas and thought leadership on how “Pact for the Future” can be applied as a framework for DRR work
• Ensure that stakeholders in attendance have a comprehensive understanding of the need to put a holistic, resilience-based approach at the centre of all DRR work