Transcript Increasing Investment for Disaster Risk Reduction

Special Session II
Increasing Investment for Disaster
Risk Reduction
Background
• The Chairs Summary of the second session of the Global Platform
recognized a drastic mismatch between the resources required to address
disaster risk in developing countries and those actually available. “A
massive scaling up of action is needed”. It also noted that “many countries
must dedicate substantially more funds from national budgets – or
increasingly suffer the consequences”. This is also a must for the
international community.
• Calls also were made for at least 1% of all national development funding
and all development assistance funding to be allocated to risk reduction
measures
• There is evidence that progress is being made yet much more needs to be
done in terms of addressing disaster in the context of development at all
levels – including national policy, local development plans, private sector
investments, and individual and household decision-making.
Objective
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Discuss experiences and mechanisms in
– securing dedicated budgets for disaster risk reduction at all levels of
Government and
– establishing effective incentives to encourage greater investment by the
national governments, private sector and individuals and households .
Identify key challenges related to risk reduction financing through national
planning instruments.
Explore how to track and monitor progress of investment, and discuss
experiences with differing approaches.
In addition to national budgets and multi-national business investments, the
session would also consider the role of local governments, in guiding collective
decision-making through good governance on setting appropriate regulatory
requirements, providing incentives through tax and service fee policies, etc.
Specific issues :
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Specific issues that would be discussed in the Panel would include:
– key trigger factors – economic, social, political – for different actors within
countries to decide to invest more in risk management?
– How can private sector’s interest be raised in investing in disaster risk
reduction to protect their businesses, ensure continuity of services, or access
new markets?
– Identify suggestions for incentivizing increased investment in DRR by public
and private sector.
– Training, capacity building, policy development required to achieve this.
– What policies need to be developed to ensure that DRR is fully integrated into
all development programs?
– How can DRR investments be leveraged in the context of humanitarian action
and early response/ recovery? How can agencies involved in reconstruction be
encouraged to address DRR in their programs?
Participants
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The panelist would include:
– At least 2-3 senior representatives from Ministries of
Finance from Asian countries;
– At least 2 -3 senior representatives from large
multinational corporations investing in the Asian region;
– At least two senior representatives from Planning Ministry;
– WHO ELSE ?
Expected Outcome
• The identification of key actions required for the period 2011 - 2015 by
ISDR partners, and particularly countries, the private sector and the
international community, in respect of:
– Determining lessons learned and good practices within countries and
business sectors that have successfully established budgetary
allocations or have made sound business cases for including DRR into
their ongoing development and business operations.
– Advocacy and guidance for governments and private sector seeking
wider integration of risk reduction and climate change adaptation in
national development or business planning.
– Determining critical data sets and indicators required by governments
and private business to support and monitor investment and financing
for risk reduction.
Special Session III
Urban risk reduction : Making cities
resilient
Background
• The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
(UNISDR), together with its partners, has launched its ISDR World Disaster
Reduction Campaign for 2010-2011 – Making Cities Resilient: My City is
Getting Ready.
• Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, floods, volcanoes and droughts, as
well as the impacts of climate change on health and livelihoods, continue
to affect cities and communities throughout the world. Investing in
disaster risk reduction measures will help reduce urban risks.
• The ISDR two-year campaign urges city leaders and local governments to
take actions on DRR and commit to the Ten Essentials for Making Cities
Resilient.
Objective
• This session is organized to share the current status of the
ISDR Global Campaign, and to invite ‘two’ Mayors to present
their progress and challenges on DRR implementations.
• The panel discussion will focus on building cities resilient
against climate related disasters and will identify innovative
measures to address climate related disasters, by inviting
panelists from local governments, an international city
association, a regional development bank, and an academic
institution.
• Within the session, newly signed up cities in Asia to join the
campaign will be introduced.
Participants
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RTF-URR
UNISDR
Selected Mayors from cities – Chennai, Makati, etc
CITYNET
ADB
WWF
Kyoto University
Senior representatives from selected ministries of Urban
Development
Expected Outcome
• Announcement of several Asian cities which have singed up for the
campaign
• Innovative solutions and progress on disaster risk reduction activities
against climate related disasters by city governments are presented.
• Initiatives by the international community (a regional development back,
an international city association, and an academic institute) to support
local government to build resilience against climate related disasters are
introduced.
• Lessons and challenges faced by local government to take DRR actions are
identified and discussed, which leads to discussions how support from
international community should be scaled up.