1. Sustainable Development, Resilience & Risk Management
Enhancing Effectiveness
Sustainable Development, Resilience & Risk Management
| RCO Workshop | 6 Sep 2016 | Nairobi

2. A changing environment
Intensifying disaster trends & more frequent events - Climate change [extreme events, slow onset disasters]
Resource scarcity and degradation (land, water, food, energy, biodiversity)
Increasing risk of “unchecked” urbanization coupled with high exposure of population and assets in high risk areas.
Increasing governance challenges
Equity, poverty, inclusion – all being fundamental development challenges contributing to vulnerability
Inter-dependency and complexity of risk drivers

3. Disaster Impact – Year 2015 Global impact: Impact in Africa:
346 disasters
22,773 deaths
98.6 million affected
27.8 million people displaced: 70% due to disasters
Impact in Africa:
120 disasters
4,544 deaths
28.3 million affected
Global economic losses from disasters are an average of US$250 billion to US$300 billion annually

4. POST-2015 GLOBAL FRAMEWORKS
Paris
Agreement
Dec 2015
SDGs
Sep 2015
Sendai
Framework
March 2015
Addis Ababa
Action Agenda
July 2015
HABITAT-III
Oct 2016
World Humanitarian Summit Apr 16

5. Sustainable Development Goals

6. UNDG Commitment to implement the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

7. UNDG Strategic Actions
Greater coherence among UN’s development, humanitarian, human rights and peace-building agendas
Risk-informed and evidence-based practices
Coordination, coherence and integration
High performing and common business operations
Developing partnership and joint funding approaches
Leadership
Mainstreaming, Acceleration & Policy Support (MAPS)
Accountability for inter-agency approaches and agreements
Agency and UNDG-CEB programming and operations

8. Programming Principles
Core Programming Principles
Key Enablers 1.
Human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment
Risk management 2.
Sustainable development and resilience
Policy coherence 3.
Leave no one behind
Coherence across the Charter 4.
Accountability
Partnerships

9. Sustainable Development,
Resilience and Risk Management

10. Sustainability and Resilience
Maximizing the efficiency of the system and reducing its impact on the environment
Resilience
Balancing efficiency with redundancy of the system to withstand impacts from the environment
Source:

11. Uncovering Sustainable Development & Resilience
Hazard Exposure
Vulnerability
Preparedness
-- SPRING-BACK --
Resilience ensures that shocks and stresses do not roll back development gains

12. Making Development Sustainable
Development that does not take risks into account, cannot be sustained, nor is it sustainable…
A system that is effective in managing risk is likely to become more resilient to shocks and stresses

13. Linking Sustainability & Resilience
Risk Management

14. Can disasters be prevented?
Cyclones in Orissa (India)
Earthquake Impact:
(Magnitude 7.0 and above)
Country
Mortality
New Zealand
Ecuador
673
Japan 40
Tajikistan 2
Peru
Afghanistan
398
Nepal
9,236
Chile 14

15. Risk Management Risk Governance Risk Management Investment
External
Internal
Governance
Risk Management
Investment
Risk Knowledge
Risk Information
Awareness
Address Risk
Prevention
Mitigation
Transfer
Accept or Avoid
Prepare
Early warning
Contingency planning
Recover
Rehabilitate
Reconstruct
Build Back Better
DISASTER

16. SDGs & Disaster Risk Reduction1 2 3 4 6 9 11 13 14 15

17. Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

18. Sendai Framework: Goal
Focus on preventing new risks and reducing existing disaster risks
Calls various measures to prevent and reduce hazard exposure and vulnerability, increase preparedness and recovery
PREVENTION
REDUCTION
HAZARD EXPOSURE
VULNERABILITY
PREPAREDNESS
RESILIENCE

19. Sendai Priorities for Action
1. Understanding Disaster Risk
GLOBAL& REGIONAL
2. Strengthen Risk Governance
3. Investing in DRR for resilience
NATIONAL & LOCAL
4. Preparedness for Response, Recovery & Reconstruction

20. Making UNDAFs Risk-Informed
UNDAF Roadmap
Envisage risk assessments required to implement the roadmap
Common Country Analysis
Identify risks to achievement of the 2030 Agenda in the country, and risk management strategies to address the risks
Strategic Priority Areas – Theory of Change
Outline risks and assumptions underlying ToC
Results Matrix / M&E
Risks and assumptions
Risk Register (?)
Identified risks, agreed actions, lessons learnt
from mitigation actions

21. DRR & Resilience in the UN System
UN Plan of Action on DRR for Resilience
Endorsed by the CEB, April 2016
Three Commitments
Strengthen system-wide coherence through a risk-informed and integrated approach
Deliver coordinated and high-quality support to countries on DRR
Disaster risk reduction remains a strategic priority for UN organizations
11 Results

22. Thanks for your attention!
Thanks for your attention!
2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
| May 2017 | Cancun, Mexico |