Living with Risk: The need to build partnerships

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Monitoring Progress of HFA Implementation in the
Arab Region
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Reporting on progress from Arab Region 2007-2009

• National HFA Reports submitted online 2008/2009
• Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Yemen (22!!!)
• One in-depth country review case study Egypt
• One drought risk reduction review Djibouti
• Progress review reports sent 2007
• Comoros, Djibouti, Morocco, Mauritania
• Regional analysis and review of progress
  (coordinated with the League of Arab States and
  UNISDR - submitted to 2nd Global Platform 2009)

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GAPS Identified!!!

• Weak and incomplete Institutional Frameworks
• Inadequate technical capacity to implement DRR
• Weak knowledge and info base for DRR
• Weak coordination regional/national,
  national/national, national/local
• Difficulty in reorienting from DM to DRR
• Scarcity/limitation of adequate financing for DRR
• Ensuring the sustainability of the set national
  agenda and policy to adopt the DRR

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Actions to bridge Gaps!

• Political commitment to be asserted through
  regional policies on sustainable development
• Capacity development, training and guidance for
  countries to accelerate HFA implementation
• Support HFA Progress Monitoring Reporting
• Focus on knowledge including enhancement of
  data on risk, hazards and vulnerabilities
• Use 2009 review as a benchmarking exercise to
  inform future plans and regional strategies.
• Undertake a comprehensive, in-depth review with
  wider stakeholders engagements (2010-2011).

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Thank you
United Nations, secretariat of the International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction Regional Office,
Cairo, Egypt Tel [phone] Fax
2-02-22665642isdr-arabstates_at_un.org
www.preventionweb.net and www.unisdr.org/arabstat
es Luna Abu-Swaireh, abu-swaireh_at_un.org