ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting, April 2014, Bangkok22-24 April 2014

Sujit MohantyUNISDR ROAP

Stakeholders’ engagement and ‘Voluntary Commitment Statement’ for

6 AMCDRR

Stakeholder groups engagement in Asia

• A move from ‘Recommendation for governments’ to ‘Shared Responsibility’

• Ten Stakeholder groups representing organisations and individuals working in specific communities engaged from 5th AMCDRR

• Provided commitment statements in 5th AMCDRR and engaged in monitoring the commitments

• Reporting back on actions taken after 5th AMC in all preceding IAP meetings (2013)

“Disaster Risk Reduction is everybody’s business”

6 AMCDRR Conference outcome

• A political declaration

• Set of stakeholders’ ‘Voluntary Commitment Statement’ as annexes to the main declaration

• ‘Asia HFA2 input document’ endorsed by Ministers/ Governments

Above 3 as one final combined package

 

Voluntary Commitment Statement

UN GA resolution A/RES/68/211 emphasizes the need for stakeholders’ engagement in the preparation of the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, recognizing the importance of their contributions. In particular, the resolution “invites voluntary commitments by all stakeholders and their networks to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action as well as support the development of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction”. The Assembly also recognizes the voluntary commitments to implement a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction as a basis for the identification of modalities of cooperation  

Stakeholder groups1) Academic and Research Stakeholders – IRDR/AEUDMP/ Kyoto University

2) Children, Youth and Child-centred Organizations – PLAN International/ UNICEF

3) Civil Society Organizations - ADRRN

4) Individuals and Organizations Concerned with Disability - DiDRRN

5) Individuals and Organizations Concerned with Gender Issues – Duryog Nivaran

6) Mayors and Local Government Authorities - UCLG

7) Media - ThaiPBS

8) National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent - IFRC

9) Parliamentarians - UNISDR

10) Private Sector – Asia Private sector Partnership (TBC)

Voluntary Commitment Statement of Stakeholders

• The stakeholders’ commitments are voluntary in nature.

• The voluntary commitments would be stakeholders’ concrete actions and deliverables

• In order to be practical and actionable, voluntary commitments should be specific, measurable, time bound and provide targets, indicators and means of verification, as well as commit to periodic self-assessment of progress.

• Commitments may be short or long term in operation.

Voluntary Commitment Statement of Stakeholders

• Short Term: In the context of the 6 AMCDRR, the stakeholder groups’ commitments should be a set of tangible, specific and measurable actions. These should be linked to the stakeholder groups’ area of work and should be implementable within a 2-3 year time period. There should be a maximum of 4-6 tangible actions listed with some indication of measurable indicators or means of verification.

• Longer term: In light of the emerging goals of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction6, the voluntary commitments may focus on: 1) risk prevention and the pursuit of development pathways that minimize disaster risk generation; 2) risk reduction, i.e. actions to address existing accumulations of disaster risk; and 3) strengthened resilience, i.e. actions that enable nations and communities to absorb loss and damage, minimize impacts and bounce forward.

Voluntary Commitment Statement of Stakeholders

• The monitoring of the Stakeholders’ commitments

• should be carried out by the Stakeholder groups’ them selves

• Share progress reports with • IAP• Regional Platform• Global Platform• National platform• Other forums

Main issues and opportunities for stakeholder group consultation

• The main focus of the Stakeholder groups consultation (during Apr- Jun and pre conference events) should be as followed:

1. Stakeholders ‘Voluntary Commitment Statement’

2. HFA1 celebration: Reflection on achievements in 10 years of HFA 2005-15 implementation

3. Asia Pacific input paper for HFA2: Feedback/ endorsement of the stakeholder group on the Asia Pacific input paper for HFA2

4. Feedback on ‘Proposed Elements for Consideration in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

• Individual Stakeholder groups will be provided space for Pre-conference events on both 22-23 June 2014 (Sunday- Monday). [Please register your Pre-conference event on the 6 th AMCDRR website (http://6thamcdrr-thailand.net )].

• A HFA2 Plenary 1 session (on 23 June 2014, 14:00 – 18:00) will be dedicated to the Stakeholder groups to discuss their inputs to the HFA2.

Proposed template for ‘voluntary commitment statements’

1. Name of individual organization, group of organizations or network

2. Brief narrative (300 words) of the context and deliverable/s:

3. Actions related to the three sub-themes of the conference (1. Community Resilience 2. Public investments and 3. Private Sector engagement) [ max. 6 actions to be implemented in 2-4 years time frame]

4. Actions related to evolving HFA2 priorities [towards a)Risk Prevention, b) Risk Reduction , c) strengthening resilience – need to be based on the ‘Proposed elements Paper’]

5. Each action to specify: [ Each action need to Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time bound]\

• Level: local / national / regional / global [ All action to specify the implementation level] • Targets• Indicators• Means of Verification• Timeframe

Proposed timeline

Stakeholder consultations to develop ‘Voluntary Commitment Statement’

April – June 2014

Sharing draft statements of commitments/annexes by stakeholder groups

15 May 2014

Finalize the commitment statement during the pre-conference meeting on 22-23 June and submit the final statements to the drafting committee on 24th June 2014

Key questions/ issues for discussion (Round table)

• Feedback on ‘Voluntary Commitment Statement’ formulation. • Is it feasible? • Is the proposed timeline is appropriate?

• Reflections on the short term and the long term actions

• Feedback on the monitoring modality

Thank You

Note: Terms of Reference of all stakeholder groups will be published on IAP and AMCDRR website