Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Flashcards
WHY IN NEWS?
Recently, the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022 (GP DRR 2022) took place in Indonesia
ABOUT
It was the first global gathering for disaster risk reduction (DRR) actors since the Covid pandemic, and fell exactly midway between the UNFCCC COP26 and UNFCCC COP27 negotiations.
THEME - From Risk to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development For All in a Covid-19 Transformed World.
It is a biennial multi-stakeholder forum, a critical component of the monitoring and implementation process of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030).
The UN General Assembly recognizes the same.
OUTCOMES
There is a need for a whole-of-society approach to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), ensuring no one is left behind
DRR must be at the core of development and finance policies, legislation and plans to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Current greenhouse gas emission levels far exceed their mitigation, resulting in an increase in frequency and intensity of catastrophic events.
DRR and climate change adaptation have the common objective of reducing vulnerability and enhancing capacity as well as resilience.
INDIA’S CONTRIBUTION
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Society (CDRIS):
1.CDRI is a global partnership of national governments, United Nations agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and academic and research institutions.
It aims to increase the resilience of infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks, thereby ensuring sustainable development.
2.National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP):
Its primary purpose is to coordinate response to natural or man-made disasters and for capacity-building in disaster resiliency and crisis response.
It lays down policies, plans and guidelines for Disaster Management to ensure timely and effective response to disasters.
ABOUT NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY AND NDMP
National Disaster Management Authority, abbreviated as NDMA, is an apex Body of Government of India, with a mandate to lay down policies for disaster management. NDMA was established through the Disaster Management Act enacted by the Government of India on 23 December 2005.
NDMA is responsible for framing policies, laying down guidelines and best-practices for coordinating with the State Disaster Management Authorities (SDMAs) to ensure a holistic and distributed approach to disaster management.
It works under Ministry of Home Affairs
NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN
The NDMP serves as a document or guideline for the government agencies to act in all phases of disasters. It is based on the Sendai Framework, which is a United Nations framework, for substantially reducing disaster risk, and losses to lives and livelihoods.
VISION- Make India disaster resilient, achieve substantial disaster risk reduction, and significantly decrease the losses of life, livelihoods, and assets – economic, physical, social, cultural, and environmental – by maximizing the ability to cope with disasters at all levels of administration as well as among communities.
SENDAI FRAMEWORK
the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (hereafter “Sendai Framework”) was adopted at the Third UN World Conference in Sendai, Japan, on March 18, 2015 (UNISDR 2015a) as
the successor instrument to the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015.
Signatories - 187
It is a non-binding agreement, which the signatory nations, including India, will attempt to comply with on a voluntary
basis.
However, India will make all efforts to contribute to the realization of the global targets by improving the entire disaster management cycle in India by following the recommendations in the
Sendai Framework and by adopting globally accepted best practices.
