UN system task team on the post-2015 UN development agenda: building resilience to disasters through partnerships

This is the second Thematic Think Piece on Disaster Risk and Resilience developed by UN entities to support discussions on the post-2015 development agenda. The paper outlines the modus operandi of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction partnership in working with and empowering stakeholders to build partnerships and political legitimacy for international agreements in the context of disaster risk reduction. With this approach the paper refers to the directions outlined in the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters.

It calls for localising and leveraging partnerships for risk reduction and asserts that the strength of the Hyogo Framework for Action is the ability to influence and guide diverse groups and generate partnerships amongst a wide variety of stakeholders (not just national governments) including local government representatives, science and technology institutions, parliamentarians, interest groups and community practitioners, the private sector, and media.

Date:

2013

Pages:

13 p.

Sources:

United Nations Environment Programme - Headquarters (UNEP)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Keywords

Themes:: Civil Society/NGOs, Climate Change, Community-based DRR, Media, Public-private Partnerships, Urban Risk & Planning, Governance, Economics of DRR, Disaster Risk Management