Overview of Priority 5 of the Hyogo Framework for Action

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Overview of Priority 5 of the Hyogo
Framework for Action
DPPT Workshop5-7 May 2008Villars-sur-Ollon,
Switzerland
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The Hyogo Framework for Action HFA Overview of
Priority Five

• Why does preparedness urgently need to be
  strengthened? Why is implementation of the HFA so
  critical?
• What is Priority Five of the HFA - its goals,
  priorities and guiding principles?
• What are the responsibilities of OCHA in
  supporting the implementation of Priority Five?

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Urgency, Relevance
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Changing Humanitarian Context

• Demographic revolution - density
• More and bigger mega-cities - vulnerability
• Persisting poverty people in harms way
• Climate change
• Environmental degradation
• Explosion of food prices

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Loss of Lives, Suffering and Damages can
be Reduced!

• Natural hazards need not always result in
  disasters
• Our action or inaction determines damage
• We can take simple measures to strengthen our
  resilience to disasters
• A key challenge is to review and upgrade our
  preparedness in light of potential scenarios

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HFA Strategic Goals

• The more effective integration of disaster risk
  considerations into sustainable development
  policies, planning and programming at all levels,
  with a special emphasis on disaster prevention,
  mitigation, preparedness and vulnerability
  reduction
• The development and strengthening of
  institutions, mechanisms and capacities at all
  levels, in particular at the community level,
  that can systematically contribute to building
  resilience to hazards
• The systematic incorporation of risk reduction
  approaches into the design and implementation of
  emergency preparedness, response and recovery
  programmes in the reconstruction of affected
  communities

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Interlinking Priorities of the HFA

• Make disaster risk reduction DRR a priority
• Improve risk information and early warning
• Build a culture of safety and resistance
• Reduce the underlying risk factors
• Strengthen preparedness to respond in an
  emergency at all levels in order to effectively
  and speedily assist those who are adversely
  affected

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What is the Holistic Approach to Disaster Risk
Reduction?promote and support dialogue,
exchange of information and
coordination among early warning, disaster risk
reduction, disaster response,
development and other relevant
agencies and institutions at all
levels.

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• Create realistic and measurable objectives
• Support national platforms for the exchange of
  information and lessons
• Encourage and support participation by
  Civil Society and community members
• Develop a National Disaster Preparedness Plan as
  part of a DRR strategy
• Assure representation by men and women in forums
  and gender disaggregated data

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Guiding Principles for DRR

• States - Primary Responsibility
• Decentralize Responsibility
• Community participation
• Effective DRR is integrated into development
  depends on community participation
• Capacity Development central strategy
• Multi-hazard customized approach
• Gender core issue
• Public-private partnerships

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OCHAs Responsibility/Role ? HFA Priority 5

• GA Resolution 46/182 1991 Special attention
  should be given to disaster prevention and
  preparedness by the Governments concerned, as
  well as by the international community.
• GA Resolution 56/103 2002 Welcomes the role
  of OCHA as the focal point within the overall UN
  system for the promotion and coordination of
  disaster response preparedness
• Priority No. 5 of Hyogo Framework for Action
  HFA which is the inter-nationally accepted
  policy document on disaster risk reduction, calls
  for the strengthening of disaster preparedness
  for effective response at all levels
• ISDR System Management Oversight Board OCHA,
  UNDG, IFRC, WMO, UNEP, WB Inter-Agency Reference
  Group Joint Work Programme OCHA to
  coordinate Priority 5
• OCHA Mission Statement to mobilise and
  coordinate effective and principled humanitarian
  action in order to promote preparedness and
  prevention
• ERC Five Year Vision and 2007-2009 strategic
  framework

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What do you think?

• Constraints to preparedness planning
• Facilitating factors
• Modalities of cooperation