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• Union Minister of State for Home Affairs presided over the valedictory session of the 1st ‘National Conference on Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CDRR&R) – 2020’, organised by the National Institute of Disaster Management in New Delhi recently.

Highlights:

• The one-day conference focussed on enhancing human capacity in terms of better understanding about coastal disaster risks.
• It aimed at taking effective collaborative actions, by implementing Prime Minister’s 10-point agenda and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, for reducing the risk and enhancing the resilience amongst the affected stakeholders.
• It emphasised on dissemination of information related to national and local strategies for coastal disaster risk reduction and resilience.

Aim:

• To enhance the understanding of the issues and solutions on various facets for coastal disaster risk reduction and resilience.
• To explore and debate the most recent advances in the discipline.
• To develop a network mode roadmap for addressing the gaps by engaging with the institutions, researchers and experts.

Prime Minister’s 10-point Agenda:

The Prime Minister’s 10-point agenda on DRR is:

• All development sectors must imbibe the principles of disaster risk management.
• Work towards risk coverage for all– starting from poor households to SMEs to multi-national corporations to nation states.
• Encourage greater involvement and leadership of women in disaster risk management.
• Invest in risk mapping globally.
• Leverage technology to enhance the efficiency of our disaster risk management efforts.
• Develop a network of universities to work on disaster issues.
• Utilise the opportunities provided by social media and mobile technologies.
• Build on local capacity and initiative.
• Opportunity to learn from a disaster must not be wasted.
• Bring about greater cohesion in international response to disasters.

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030:

• It is a global agreement to reduce and prevent disaster risks across the globe.
• It was adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Sendai, Japan in March 2015.

• The non-legally binding agreement highlights the need for good governance in disaster risk reduction at the local, national, regional and global level.
• It aims to strengthen social and economic resilience to ease the negative effects of climate change, man-made disasters, and natural hazards.
• For the first time the goals are defined in terms of outcome-based targets instead of focusing on sets of activities and actions.
• It places governments at the centre of disaster risk reduction with the framework emphasizing the need to strengthen the disaster risk governance.
• It places almost equal importance on all kinds of disasters and not only on those arising from natural hazards.
• Implementation of integrated environmental and natural resource management approaches is needed for disaster reduction.

The Four Priorities for Action:

• Priority 1:Understanding Disaster risk management should be based on an understanding of disaster risk in all its dimensions of vulnerability, capacity, exposure, hazard characteristics and the environment.
• Priority 2:To manage Disaster risk governance at the national, regional and global levels.
• Priority 3:Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience.
• Priority 4: Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to build better in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.