Chapter 1: Localizing the Sendai Framework to achieve Resilient Cities and Territories
Synergies of the Sendai Framework with other Global Agendas in the post COVID-19 era The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of taking efficient preventive and risk mitigating measures and building systemic resilience in our cities and territories. It has forced societies around the world to confront engrained inequalities, vulnerabilities, and dependence on certain economic models, showcasing the risk these fractures can have for the whole of society and the stress under which many of our economic, environmental, social, spatial and public health systems currently exist. At the same time, it has invited reflection on alternative models and futures, and how global collaboration, multilevel-governance, political commitment, and science- and evidence-based policy making are crucial to confront the challenges of our era. An effective disaster risk reduction and resilience building strategy can provide significant effects, and goes in fact hand to hand with the wellbeing of communities, protection of the environment, local and regional economic development, and quality of life in cities and territories, indicating that the Sendai Framework has direct linkages to all the other Global Agendas (see Fig 5).
Sendai Framework
Global framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, building on Hyogo Framework for Action and aligned with broader post-2015 development agenda
Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Developing adaptation and building resilience towards climate change creates synergies, policies, and finance frameworks and mechanisms towards DRR, adaptation and mitigation
Decalogue for COVID-19 aftermath
Reflected and supported by local strategies, practices, and policies that will further support the resilience of cities and regions
March 2015
25 SDG targets are related to DRR in 10 out of the 17 SDGs, target 11 having a direct framework reference to DRR. Localization efforts include support in the reporting and monitoring processes
2030 Agenda Sustainable Development
September 2015
December 2015
Strengthens the resilience of cities and human settlements, including policies, plans and approaches in line with the Sendai Framework for DRR
New Urban Agenda
October 2016
May 2020
Fig 5. Linkages of relevant Global Agendas to resilience-based sustainable development
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