HLD1: Harnessing risk understanding for a safer future: Are we keeping up?

This high-level dialogue offers an opportunity to explore how scaling the generation and application of standardized interoperable quality risk information can help reduce escalating losses and support the achievement of global agreements, including the Sendai Framework and SDGs. The session will bring together key public and private stakeholders to share successful practices and real-world experiences related to risk knowledge ecosystems that actually work for risk-informed decision-making for a more resilient future for all. The session will also highlight how innovation, learning and participatory feedback mechanisms can improve risk understanding for both present and future generations.

UNDRR Focal Points

• Ms. Jenty Kirsch-Wood
• Ms. Iria Calle

Organizing Team experts

• Ms. Jacqueline Begerow, Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management (GIDRM)
• Mr. Jeremy Wetterwald, Environment and Migration, IMPACT
• Mr. Adessou Kossivi Nevaeme, Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR)
• Ms. Giulia Traversi Delpozzo, European Disability Forum
• Mr. Takahiro Konami, International Affairs Office, Water and Disaster Management Bureau, MLIT, Japan
• Ms. Rahel Steinbach, UN Women
• Ms. Maria Campuzano, UN Women
• Ms. Rui Kotani, GEO Secretariat
• Dr. Philip Ward, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Deltares
• Mr. Alex Mavuti, Major group for Children and Youth

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