Asia on track with Sendai

Source(s): United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
More than 100 DRR policymakers and practitioners from various sectors remained on course to have the Asia Regional Plan to implement the Sendai Framework ready for endorsement at next year's Ministerial Conference on DRR (Photo: UNISDR)
More than 100 DRR policymakers and practitioners from various sectors remained on course to have the Asia Regional Plan to implement the Sendai Framework ready for endorsement at next year's Ministerial Conference on DRR (Photo: UNISDR)

NEW DELHI, 20 November 2015 - Asia is making strides towards setting down a regional package of measures to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

More than 100 disaster risk reduction policymakers and practitioners from various sectors have spent this week in India’s capital at a meeting of the ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP), focusing on a region-wide plan to implement the 15-year Sendai Framework.

They provided substantial feedback, and the forum closed with representatives agreeing to further hone the current draft plan and policy guidance.

The session marked an important milestone on the road to the first Asia Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction of the Sendai Framework era, in November 2016, in New Delhi. The intention is for the plan to be adopted at the Conference, which will be hosted by the Government of India for the first time. India is among the top countries affected by the most disasters over the last 20 years.

In closing, UNISDR's Head of the Regional Office for Asia and Pacific, Ms Feng Min Kan, was encouraged by the level of engagement: "We have seen a strong sense of ownership from all of you to take the Sendai Framework forward.”

"As the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction (Ms Margareta Wahlström) said at this meeting, we can only achieve the Sendai Framework's goal by working together at all levels and among all sectors,” she said.

"Of course we all face many challenges but I am positive that we have the spirit and substance to move forward," she added.

Earlier, the Union Home Affairs Minister of the Government of India, Mr Rajnath Singh, expressed his conviction that the IAP would "set the policy direction for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia, yielding useful inputs for the upcoming Asia Ministerial Conference".

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