Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action
9 October 2013
Word Count: 5005
1. Introduction
Disasters are influencing human activity at an unprecedented rate. Throughout the past 20 years over 64% of the world’s population has been effected by disasters and by 2050, 70% of the worlds 8.9 billion people will live in a community vulnerable to disaster.1 Governments and communities have made strong progress in the past ten years in preparing and reducing the risk communities face to disaster. The Hyogo Framework for Action ─ Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters 2005-2015 was created by United Nations to guide and inform disaster preparation and risk reduction. The Hyogo Framework for Action is presently a subject of international discussion as nations reflect on their progress and provide feedback on the shape of any subsequent intergovernmental agenda for disaster risk reduction.
This paper explores international disaster trends and efforts to meet the priorities of the Hyogo Framework for Action. The regions will be explored with reference to reports submitted to the United National International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and other relevant documents impacting sustainable development, planning and decision making at regional, national and local level. We then look at governmental consultations and their view post 2015, bearing in mind other declarations and international agenda, such as the sustainable development and millennium development goals. Finally we will ask what is missing and how could governments better set a framework that integrates disaster risk reduction to be a crosscutting issue for effecting all decision making. In the disaster world only one thing is clear – the worst is still to come!
1.1 Key
HFA – Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015
DRR – Disaster Risk Reduction
UNISDR – United National International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction
GAR - Global Assessment on Disasters
2. Disasters trends
In an increasingly global
Word Count: 5005
1. Introduction
Disasters are influencing human activity at an unprecedented rate. Throughout the past 20 years over 64% of the world’s population has been effected by disasters and by 2050, 70% of the worlds 8.9 billion people will live in a community vulnerable to disaster.1 Governments and communities have made strong progress in the past ten years in preparing and reducing the risk communities face to disaster. The Hyogo Framework for Action ─ Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters 2005-2015 was created by United Nations to guide and inform disaster preparation and risk reduction. The Hyogo Framework for Action is presently a subject of international discussion as nations reflect on their progress and provide feedback on the shape of any subsequent intergovernmental agenda for disaster risk reduction.
This paper explores international disaster trends and efforts to meet the priorities of the Hyogo Framework for Action. The regions will be explored with reference to reports submitted to the United National International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and other relevant documents impacting sustainable development, planning and decision making at regional, national and local level. We then look at governmental consultations and their view post 2015, bearing in mind other declarations and international agenda, such as the sustainable development and millennium development goals. Finally we will ask what is missing and how could governments better set a framework that integrates disaster risk reduction to be a crosscutting issue for effecting all decision making. In the disaster world only one thing is clear – the worst is still to come!
1.1 Key
HFA – Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015
DRR – Disaster Risk Reduction
UNISDR – United National International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction
GAR - Global Assessment on Disasters
2. Disasters trends
In an increasingly global
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