United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
1. Responding to the multiple crises, has the governing body of your organization taken any decisions or adopted any new strategies to enhance effective delivery of sustainable, resilient, and innovative solutions and to reinforce the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and poverty eradication?
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 provides guidance for achieving a prevention-oriented path for resilient and inclusive sustainable development. UNDRR, as the custodian of the implementation of the Sendai Framework, supports the UN system wide efforts on resilience building and alignment with the 2030 Agenda through the UN Plan of Action of DRR for Resilience, which is the main tool for coordinating and maximizing UN actions to support Member States in strengthening risk-informed development planning and ensuring that no one is left behind. Likewise, UNDRR leverages this existing collaboration mechanism through the UN Senior Leadership Group on DRR for Resilience to facilitate joint planning among UN entities for DRR and enable policy coherence.
UNDRR oversees the Sendai Framework Monitor, which allows Member States to systematically report on the agreed global targets and indicators. More than 155 countries are currently using the Sendai Framework Monitor to share progress in disaster risk reduction while also contributing to reporting on related targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), especially SDGs 1, 11 and 13. To strengthen the data ecosystem on disaster risk reduction, UNDRR adopted a Data Strategy in 2023 while strengthening efforts to develop a new tracking system for hazardous events and losses and damages.
The Sendai Framework Midterm Review (MTR SF) provided the opportunity to adjust priorities and propose recommendations to act decisively with the aim of risk-informing sustainable development. The MTR SF process comprised extensive consultations conducted by governments, stakeholders and partners. The Political declaration of the high-level meeting on the midterm review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (Resolution 77/289) was adopted by the General Assembly on 18 May 2023. The General Assembly reaffirms its commitment to the full implementation of the Sendai Framework, including its guiding principles and four priorities for action.
2. In the past year, has your organization organized any intergovernmentally mandated conferences, forums or events that contributed to the achievement of the SDGs, or in the process of planning and organizing any such mandated events to be held next year?
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Event Name: |
High-level Meeting on the midterm review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Event Dates: |
18 and 19 May 2023 (With extended plenary sessions on 31 May and 6 June) |
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Event Location (City, Country): |
UNHQ, New York, USA |
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Relevant SDGs: |
All but in particular SDG 1, 11, 13, |
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Description (max 150 words): please include a short summary of the event’s mandate and contributions to the SDGs, including its main outcome(s) |
The high-level meeting of the General Assembly (HLM MTR SF) was convened by the President of the General Assembly in accordance with UN General Assembly resolutions A/RES/76/204 and A/RES/77/164. The meeting focused on assessing challenges and progress in implementing disaster risk reduction measures and explored emerging issues and shifts in context with a view to updating risk governance and management approaches. The overarching goals was to accelerate action across all sectors and scales to meet the Sendai Framework’s objectives by 2030 and accelerate implementation of the SDGs by adopting a risk-informed and resilience-focused approach. Organised under the theme “Working together to reduce risk for a resilient future’, it included an opening segment, a plenary and four multi-stakeholder panels. The meeting resulted in a Summary as well as a intergovernmentally agreed political declaration (A/RES/77/289). |
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Event Name: |
Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Event Dates: |
19-22 September 2022 |
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Event Location (City, Country): |
Brisbane, Australia |
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Relevant SDGs: |
SDG 1 (No Poverty): By highlighting the important linkages between disasters, inequality and poverty SDG 5 (Gender Equality), strong focus on gender transformative DRR SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities): a cross cutting theme of the conference was localization SDG 13 (Climate Action): Climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of disasters, and the Conference supported better understanding of the linkages between disaster risk reduction and climate change SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals): The conference ensure participation of a diverse range of stakeholders and facilitated partnerships and cooperation among different actors to enhance disaster risk reduction. |
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Description (max 150 words): please include a short summary of the event’s mandate and contributions to the SDGs, including its main outcome(s) |
The Australia Government partnered with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) to host the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR) at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 19-22 September 2022. As the first regional platform since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the APMCDRR was organized under the theme - From Crisis to Resilience: Transforming the Asia-Pacific Region’s future through disaster risk reduction. It highlighted that disasters are not only affecting communities across the Asia-Pacific region more frequently and more severely but also that they are having flow-on effects in terms of stalling progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conference was organised around three main pillars and three cross-cutting themes that informed content and guided discussion. The Pillar were: (i) Investing in resilience and preparedness; (ii) Shock-proof infrastructure and systems and (iii)Resilient communities. The cross-cutting themes were Localisation, Inclusion and Science, Technology and Knowledge. |
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Website (if applicable) |
Home - Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction | APMCDRR (undrr.org) |
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Event Name: |
Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean |
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Event Dates: |
28 February to 2 March 2023 |
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Event Location (City, Country): |
Uruguay |
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Relevant SDGs: |
SDG 1 (No Poverty): By reducing disaster risk, RP23 helped prevent the impoverishment of communities and individuals affected by disasters. SDG 5 (Gender Equality), the LAC women network for DRR implemented a gender observatory process and advocated for women empowerment at the RP23. SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities): RP23 promoted urban resilience, helping cities and communities reduce risk, withstand and recover from disasters. SDG 13 (Climate Action): Climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of disasters, and RP23's efforts contributed to climate resilience and adaptation. SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals): RP23 facilitated partnerships and cooperation among different actors to enhance disaster risk reduction. |
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Description (max 150 words): please include a short summary of the event’s mandate and contributions to the SDGs, including its main outcome(s) |
The Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean focused on the implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Regional Action Plan adopted in 2017 to reduce disaster risk and build resilience. The event was a contribution to the SDG monitoring, stocktaking and implementation and provided inputs to the Sendai Framework Midterm Review process. The event theme was "Science and Technology for the Comprehensive Management of Disaster Risk".
It presented and analyzed progress and obstacles at the national, subregional, and regional levels in the comprehensive and inclusive implementation of the Sendai Framework and defined regional priorities for the 2023-2024 taking into considerations the increase in number and complexities of climate and disaster risks. Considering the systemic nature of risk, recommended inclusive and sustained mechanisms and strategies for the better support, development, and use of technology in comprehensive disaster risk management. |
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Website (if applicable) |
Home of the RP Americas 2023 | RP Americas & Caribbean (undrr.org) |
3. In the past year, has your organization published or planned to publish any analytical work or guidance note or toolkits to guide and support the implementation of SDGs at national, regional and global levels? Please select up to three to highlight, especially those that address interlinkages among the SDGs.
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Resource Name |
GAR Special Report 2023: Mapping resilience for the Sustainable Development Goals |
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) |
All |
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Publishing entity/entities |
UNDRR |
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Target audience |
Government officials and other stakeholders interested in reducing disaster risk and accelerating SDG achievement |
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Description (max 150 words) |
Disasters are reversing global development. Urgent action is needed to build resilience into every decision we make. Growing inequities and pressures on the planet are reversing hard-won development gains. Humanitarian needs are also rising, as disasters and conflict create enormous human suffering.
The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR 2023) highlights how resilience can be strengthened to withstand and respond to shocks. This includes investments in early warning systems where the benefits triple in vulnerable contexts because of their proven ability to reduce damage. |
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Language(s) |
English |
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Website (if applicable) |
https://www.undrr.org/gar/gar2023-special-report
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Resource Name |
Technical guidance on comprehensive risk assessment and planning in the context of climate change |
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) |
SDG13 |
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Publishing entity/entities |
UNDRR |
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Target audience |
Disaster risk management, climate change adaptation and loss and damage |
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Description (max 150 words) |
The document offers a framework on how to apply comprehensive risk assessment and planning. It acknowledges that risks in the context of climate change are complex and systemic due to non-linear interactions among system components and the need for improved risk governance. The guidance can be contextualized to national and local needs. |
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Language(s) |
English |
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Website (if applicable) |
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Resource Name |
Guidance note on Leveraging Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF) for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) |
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) |
All SDGs |
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Publishing entity/entities |
UNDRR and UNDESA |
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Target audience |
G20 DRR focal points - Ministry of Finance/ Planning / Environment - All UN agencies and development partners |
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Description (max 150 words) |
This note provides guidance on leveraging INFFs to align financing policies and strategies with DRR goals as presented in the Sendai Framework. As such, it addresses the following questions: 1. How can INFFs help finance a country’s DRR goals? 2. How can INFFs help enhance consistency and alignment of all financing in support of a country’s DRR goals? 3. How can INFFs help bring together DRR, national development, and financing actors? While answering these questions, the note also introduces a menu of financing options for DRR measures. |
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Language(s) |
English |
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Website (if applicable) |
4. In connection with the 2023 SDG Summit, the United Nations development system announced 12 High-Impact Initiatives where transformative progress is possible despite challenging global circumstances. Please share if your organization is contributing to any of these High Impact Initiatives and how various actors are being rallied behind them to mobilize further leadership and investment to bring progress to scale.
Nature Driving Economic Transformation (Leveraging the power of biodiversity and nature to drive equitable economic progress)
UNDRR is one of the collaborators of the High-Impact Initiative on “Nature driving economic transformation”. UNDRR is contributing by linking the initiative with comprehensive risk governance approaches and risk financing. UNDRR aims to strengthen links between the achievement of a bio-economy through DRR and risk-informed decision-making. The co-leads of the initiative further discussed the possibility of a side-event at the forthcoming UN Environment Assembly Meeting to demonstrate progress and mobilise additional partners.
Power of Data (Unlocking the data dividend for the SDGs)
UNDRR continues to advocate for improving access to quality, open data on hazards, vulnerability and exposure and is working with a number of UN, multilateral and private sector partners to encourage improved standards, metrics and sharing of quality data. To this end, UNDRR collaborated with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction (GFDRR) on a briefing note on Digital Public Goods for Disaster Risk Reduction in a Changing Climate outlining key approaches and priorities relevant to accelerating Sendai Framework implementation.
https://www.undrr.org/publication/digital-public-goods-disaster-risk-re…
5. In addition to the above, has your organization been part of any other initiatives or multi-stakeholder partnerships that enhance effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions and reinforce the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially in the areas of SDG1 (no poverty), SDG2 (zero hunger), SDG13 (climate action), SDG16 (peace, justice and strong institutions), SDG17 (partnerships for the goals), which will go under in-depth review at the HLPF in 2024, or related to the Secretary-General’s proposals in Our Common Agenda?
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Initiative/Partnership Name |
Early Warnings for All (EW4All) |
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Partners (please list all partners) |
WMO, ITU, IFRC, UNEP, UNDP, FAO, IOM, UN-Women, OHRLLS, REAP, GEO Secretariat, UNESCO, Microsoft, IDF, GSMA, amongst others |
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) |
SDG13, SDG16 and SDG17 |
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Member States benefiting from it |
Global approach |
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Description (max 150 words) |
Early Warnings for All is a groundbreaking initiative to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected from hazardous weather, water, or climate events through life-saving early warning systems by the end of 2027, called for by the UN SG. It aims to establish good quality, sustainable end-to-end multi-hazard early warning systems by the end of 2027. The initiative brings together organizations at global, regional and national level to corporate in the delivering of its objectives, to avoid duplication and to break the siloes that we work in. The Early Warnings for All initiative is built on four pillars to deliver effective and inclusive multi-hazard early warning systems: 1) disaster risk knowledge and management, 2) Detection, observation, monitoring, analysis, and forecasting, 3) Warning dissemination and communication, 4) Early Action. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name |
MCR2030 (Making Cities Resilient 2030) |
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Partners (please list all partners) |
UCLG, ICLEI, World Bank, Resilient Cities, JICA, IFRC, WCCD, UN Habitat, UNDP, C40 Cities |
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) |
SDG 11 |
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Member States benefiting from it |
It is a global initiative, over 1,624 cities have joined, including national government agencies from 84 member states, over the last year. |
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Description (max 150 words) |
Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) is a unique cross-stakeholder initiative for improving local resilience through advocacy, sharing knowledge and experiences, establishing mutually reinforcing city-to-city learning networks, injecting technical expertise, connecting multiple layers of government and building partnerships. Through delivering a clear 3-stage roadmap to urban resilience, providing tools, access to knowledge and monitoring and reporting tools, MCR2030 will support cities on their journey to reduce risk and build resilience. MCR2030 aims to ensure cities become inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by 2030, contributing directly to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, and other global frameworks including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement and the New Urban Agenda.
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Initiative/Partnership Name |
ARISE Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilience Societies |
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Partners (please list all partners) |
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) |
SDG 17 |
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Member States benefiting from it |
The alliance includes 29 national/sub-regional networks who contribute to resilience building in their country, city, community, sector and beyond (Argentina, Barbados, Canada, CARICHAM – Caribbean, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, East Africa, Egypt, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, INTEGRARSE, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, St. Lucia, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, USA. |
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Description (max 150 words) |
ARISE is an alliance of nearly 500 companies small and large committed to risk-informed development, disaster risk reduction, and preparedness action. Their collective mission is to create risk-resilient societies by energising the private sector in collaboration with the public sector and other stakeholders to achieve the outcome and goal of the Sendai Framework in a transparent and inclusive way that delivers local and measurable impact. The alliance comprises global members and those of 29 national networks.
Members raise awareness, influence in their respective spheres of expertise, share knowledge, catalyze innovation and collaboration for risk-informed business strategies, and implement projects and activities to contribute to achieving the targets of the Sendai Framework. Strategic areas of focus are |
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Initiative/Partnership Name |
Comprehensive risk management |
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Partners (please list all partners) |
GIZ, UNDP, UNFCCC, REAP, GNDR, FAO, UNEP, etc. |
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) |
SDG 13 |
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Member States benefiting from it |
Around 33 (mostly LDCs and SIDS) |
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Description (max 150 words) |
The comprehensive risk management approach seeks to integrate risk-centred approaches into National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and climate/forecast information into national and subnational disaster risk reduction strategies, aligning them better with the national adaptation goals. The CRM approach, in line with the Paris Agreement Article 8, and Sendai Framework Target E, hence, focuses on risks across different timescales – short, medium, long-term, and translating such information into meaningful information to enable more comprehensive planning and implementation. |
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Initiative/Partnership Name |
UN Plan of Action on Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: Towards a Risk-informed and Integrated Approach to Sustainable Development |
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Partners (please list all partners) |
More than 40 UN entities |
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Relevant SDGs (list all relevant goals) |
All SDGs (if selection needed: SDG1, 5, 11, 13, 17) |
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Member States benefiting from it |
All 151 UN Programme Country Governments |
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Description (max 150 words) |
The UN Senior Leadership Group on Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience (UN SLG) guides the implementation of the UN Plan of Action on Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience. More than 40 UN entities collective support Member States in implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Underscoring the cross-cutting significance of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and resilience building for the 2030 Agenda, the UN SLG endorsed a set of recommendations in 2023, which are aligned with the Political Declaration of the Sendai Framework Midterm Review. Focus areas include risk informing development, humanitarian and peacebuilding planning and actions, strengthening risk governance at all levels, including within and across sectors, supporting efforts related to disaster risk reduction financing, boosting an all-of-society approach by strengthening inclusion, enabling gender-responsive as well as child-centered disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, and maximizing efforts around strengthening multi-hazard early warning systems.. |
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Website |
United Nations Plan of Action on DRR for Resilience (preventionweb.net) |
6. In the Political Declaration adopted at the 2023 SDG Summit, Member States committed to using the review of the high-level political forum at the 78th session of the General Assembly to further strengthen the follow-up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, harnessing data to track progress in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, strengthening analysis of the interlinkages across the Goals and targets, including policy implications of their synergies and trade-offs. Please provide your organization’s recommendations, if any, in this regard.
- The Sendai Framework Monitor allows Member States to monitor and report against the seven targets in the Sendai Framework. Several of these are also used as indicators across SDGs 1, 11, and 13. Beyond this reporting, UNDRR also works with Member States to build capacity in data collection, processing, and analysis, as well as risk assessment and budget tagging for resilient investments.
- To better understand losses and damages resulting from climate change and disasters, UNDRR has been working closely with UNDP and WMO, among other partners, to develop a new-generation tracking system for hazardous events and losses and damages (https://www.undrr.org/disaster-losses-and-damages-tracking-system). The tracking system builds on the disaster impact recording system, www.DesInventar.net, that has been in existence since 1994 and currently being used by 110 countries. The new system will follow the full data chain of losses and damages, while also integrating new elements with more disaggregated data, and slow-onset events ( www.undrr.org/event/workshop-assessing-impact-slow-onset-events).
- The political declaration of the midterm review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction included ambitious, forward-looking calls to action to accelerate implementation of the Sendai Framework itself, but also to accelerate implementation of the 2030 Agenda by calling for a risk-informed and a prevention-oriented approach to development, with an emphasis on building resilience. With implications for all 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda, the political declaration and the midterm review process as a whole demonstrated the centrality of a synergistic, and coordinated approach to achieving long-term, sustainable development, for people and planet. It also recognizes the need to shift from managing disasters to managing risks in investing in prevention, anticipating existing, new and emerging hazards and risks.