Build Back Better and WRC Outcomes

The Sendai Framework urges national and local governments as well as communities to prioritize building back better in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction from disasters. This means rebuilding communities and livelihoods with improved assets and capacities, with greater resilience and reduced vulnerabilities, and integrating disaster risk reduction across the sustainable development agenda. Building back better in recovery offers a critical opportunity that must be adequately planned for, resourced and implemented, as communities must not be restored to pre-disaster status quo vulnerabilities.

This session deliberated on objectives and strategies to build back better to ensure that recovery efforts are inclusive, efficient, effective, equitable, and deliver impact. This session investigated practical mechanisms and success factors for building back better and highlight lessons learnt in preparedness and implementation of building back better, based on concrete examples of challenges and best practices.

Moderator:

Asako Okai, ASG, UNDP

Speakers:

Doni Monardo, Head of the Indonesian National Disaster Management Authority

Jerry Chandler, Director Haiti Civil Protection Agency

Itsu Adachi, Director General of Infrastructure and Peacebuilding Department Japan International Cooperation Agency Japan

Bernice Van Bronkhorst, Director of the World Bank Climate Change Group

Jemilah Mahmood, Under Secretary-General, Partnerships International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies