The document discusses the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), which is a 10-year plan adopted by UN Member States in 2005 to make nations and communities more resilient to disasters. It aimed to substantially reduce disaster losses by 2015 through cooperation across governments, agencies, and other partners. The HFA outlined five priorities for action and provided principles and strategies to achieve disaster resilience at local, national, regional and international levels.

1. Ravindra Lal Mul
Pradip Giri
Rajan Gurung
Student
M.Sc. In Public Health and DisasterM.Sc. In Public Health and Disaster
Engineering
School of Enginering
Pokhara University
June 2019 Lekhnath, Kaski

3.  Global blueprint for disaster risk reduction efforts between
2005-2015.
 Its goal was to substaintially reduce disaster losses by 2015-
in lives,and in the social,economic ,and environmental assests
of communities and countries.of communities and countries.
 It was developed and agreed on with many partners needed
to reduce disaster risk- governments,international
agencies,disaster experts and many others.
 HFA outlines five priorities for action,and offers guiding
principle and practical means for achieving disaster resilience.

4.  The HFA is a 10-year plan to make the world safer
from natural hazards.
 It was endorsed by the UN General Assembly in
the Resolution A/RES/60/195 following the 2005
World Disaster Reduction Conference.

5.  Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities
to Disasters (HFA) is the first plan to explain,
describe and detail the work that is required
from all different sectors and actors to
reduce disaster losses.
 It was developed and agreed on with the It was developed and agreed on with the
many partners needed to reduce disaster
risk - governments, international agencies,
disaster experts and many others -
bringing them into a common system of
coordination.

6.  The HFA outlines five priorities for action,
and offers guiding principles and practical
means for achieving disaster resilience. Its
goal is to substantially reduce disaster
losses by 2015 by building the resilience oflosses by 2015 by building the resilience of
nations and communities to disasters. This
means reducing loss of lives and social,
economic, and environmental assets when
hazards strike.

7.  Key framework for implementing disaster risk
reduction within the overall goal of building the
resilience of nations and communities to
disasters.
 168 Member States of the United Nations 168 Member States of the United Nations
adopted the Hyogo Framework for Action
(HFA)- in January 2005, in Kobe, Japan,
 The HFA aims to achieve a substantial reduction
of disaster losses by 2015 – both in lives, and in the social,
economic, and environmental assets of communities and countries

8.  To conclude and report on the review of the Yokohama Strategy and its Plan
of Action, with a view to updating the guiding framework on disaster
reduction for the twenty-first century.
 To identify specific activities aimed at ensuring the implementation of
relevant provisions of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of the World
Summit on Sustainable Development on vulnerability, risk assessment and
disaster management.
.
 To share good practices and lessons learned to further disaster reduction
within the context of attaining sustainable development, and to identify gapswithin the context of attaining sustainable development, and to identify gaps
and challenge.
 To increase awareness of the importance of disaster reduction policies,
thereby facilitating and promoting the implementation of those policies.
 To increase the reliability and availability of appropriate disaster-related
information to the public and disaster management agencies in all regions,
as set out in relevant provisions of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.

9.  Taking these objectives into account, and drawing on the
conclusions of the review of the Yokohama Strategy, States
and other actors participating at the World Conference on
Disaster Reduction resolve to pursue the following expected
outcome for the next 10 year.
 The substantial reduction of disaster losses, in lives and in The substantial reduction of disaster losses, in lives and in
the social, economic and environmental assets of
communities and countries.
 The realization of this outcome will require the full
commitment and involvement of all actors concerned,
including governments, regional and international
organizations, civil society including volunteers, the private
sector and the scientific community.

10.  Integration of disaster risk reduction into
sustainable development policies and planning
 Development and strengthening of institutions,
mechanisms and capacities to build resilience tomechanisms and capacities to build resilience to
hazards
 Systematic incorporation of risk reduction
approaches into the implementation of
emergency preparedness, response and recovery
program

11. 3. Build Understanding and
2. Know the Risk and Take
Action
1. Make Disaster Risk Reduction
a Priority
5. Be prepared and ready to Act
Strengthen disaster
preparedness for effective
response at all levels
4. Reduce the Underlying Risk
3. Build Understanding and
Awareness

12. Key Sectors
 Agriculture & Food
Security
 Health
 Education
 Shelter, Infrastructure
And Physical Planning
Livelihood Protection
And Physical Planning
 Livelihood Protection
 Water and Sanitation
 Information,
Communication,
Coordination and
Logistics
 Search & Rescue and
Damage/Need
Assessment
Cross-Cutting Sectors
1. Human Rights and Protection
2. Gender and Social Inclusion
3. Staff safety and security
4. Decentralization and Local
Self Governance

13.  Ensure that disaster risk reduction is a national and
local priority with a strong institutional basis for
implementation.
 Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks and
enhance early warning.enhance early warning.
 Use knowledge, innovation and education to build a
culture of safety and resilience at all levels.
 Reduce the underlying risk factors.
 Strengthen disaster preparedness for effective
response at all levels.

14.  Countries that develop policy, legislative
and institutional frameworks for disaster
risk reduction and that are able to
develop and track progress throughdevelop and track progress through
specific and measurable indicators have
greater capacity to manage risks and to
achieve widespread consensus for,
engagement in and compliance with
disaster risk reduction measures across
all sectors of society

15. The starting point for reducing disaster
risk and for promoting a culture of
disaster resilience lies in the knowledge
of the hazards and the physical, social,
economic and environmental
vulnerabilities to disasters that most
economic and environmental
vulnerabilities to disasters that most
societies face, and of the ways in which
hazards and vulnerabilities are changing
in the short and long term, followed by
action taken on the basis of that
knowledge.

16. Disasters can be substantially reduced if
people are well informed and
motivated towards a culture of
disaster prevention and resilience,disaster prevention and resilience,
which in turn requires the collection,
compilation and dissemination of
relevant knowledge and information
on hazards, vulnerabilities and
capacities.

17. Disaster risks related to changing
social, economic, environmental
conditions and land use, and the
impact of hazards associated with
geological events, weather, water,
impact of hazards associated with
geological events, weather, water,
climate variability and climate change,
are addressed in sector development
planning and programmes as well as
in post-disaster situations.

18. At times of disaster, impacts and losses
can be substantially reduced if
authorities, individuals and
communities in hazard-prone areas
are well prepared and ready to act and
communities in hazard-prone areas
are well prepared and ready to act and
are equipped with the knowledge and
capacities for effective disaster
management.

20. A. General considerations
 The implementation of and follow-up to the strategic goals and priorities for
action set out in this Framework for Action should be addressed by different
stakeholders in a multi-sectoral approach, including the development sector.
 States and regional and international organizations should foster greater strategic
coordination among the United Nations, other international organizations,
including international financial institutions, regional bodies, donor agencies and
nongovernmental organizations engaged in disaster risk reduction.nongovernmental organizations engaged in disaster risk reduction.
 States and regional and international organizations should also support the
capacities of regional mechanisms and organizations to develop regional plans,
policies and common practices.
 All actors are encouraged to build multi-stakeholder partnerships, at all levels, as
appropriate, and on a voluntary basis, to contribute to the implementation of this
Framework for Action.

21.  Prepare and publish national baseline assessments of the status of disaster risk
reduction, according to the capabilities, needs and policies of each State.
 Designate an appropriate national coordination mechanism for the
implementation and follow up of this Framework for Action, and communicate the
information to the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
 Publish and periodically update a summary of national programmes for disaster
risk reduction related to this Framework for Action, including on international
cooperation.cooperation.
 Include information on progress of disaster risk reduction in the reporting
mechanisms of existing international and other frameworks concerning
sustainable development, as appropriate.
 Promote the integration of risk reduction associated with existing climate
variability and future climate change into strategies for the reduction of disaster
risk and adaptation to climate change.

22.  Promote regional programmes, including programmes for technical cooperation,
capacity development, the development of methodologies and standards for
hazard and vulnerability monitoring and assessment.
 Undertake and publish regional and sub-regional baseline assessments of the
disaster risk reduction status, according to the needs identified and in line with
their mandates.
 Coordinate and publish periodic reviews on progress in the region and on Coordinate and publish periodic reviews on progress in the region and on
impediments and support needs, and assist countries.
 Establish or strengthen existing specialized regional collaborative centers, as
appropriate, to undertake research, training, education and capacity building in
the field of disaster risk reduction.
 Support the development of regional mechanisms and capacities for early warning
to disasters, including for tsunami.

23.  Engage fully in supporting and implementing the International Strategy
for Disaster Reduction, and cooperate to advance integrated approaches
to building disaster-resilient nations and communities.
 Strengthen the overall capacity of the United Nations system to assist
disaster-prone developing countries in disaster risk reduction.
 Identify relevant actions to assist disaster-prone developing countries in Identify relevant actions to assist disaster-prone developing countries in
the implementation of this Framework for Action.
 Assist disaster-prone developing countries to set up national strategies
and plans of action and programmes for disaster risk reduction.
 Support States with the provision of appropriate, timely and well
coordinated international relief assistance, upon request of affected
countries, and in accordance with agreed guiding principles for
emergency relief assistance and coordination arrangement.

24.  Develop a matrix of roles and initiatives in support of follow-up to this
Framework for Action, involving individual members of the Task Force and
other international partner.
 Facilitate the coordination of effective and integrated action within the
organizations of the United Nations system and among other relevant
international and regional entities.
 Ensure support to national platforms for disaster reduction, including through
the clear articulation of their role and value.
 Stimulate the exchange, compilation, analysis, summary and dissemination of
best practices, lessons learned, available technologies and programmes, to
support disaster risk reduction.
 Prepare periodic reviews on progress towards achieving the objectives and
priorities of this Framework for Action.

25.  Mobilize the appropriate resources and capabilities of relevant
national, regional and international bodies, including the United
Nations system.
 Provide for and support, through bilateral and multilateral channels,
the implementation of this Framework for Action in disaster-prone
developing countries.
 Mainstream disaster risk reduction measures appropriately into
multilateral and bilateral development assistance programmesmultilateral and bilateral development assistance programmes
including those related to poverty.
 Provide adequate voluntary financial contributions to the United
Nations Trust Fund for Disaster Reduction.
 Develop partnerships to implement schemes that spread out risks,
reduce insurance premiums, expand insurance coverage and
increase financing for postdisaster reconstruction.

27.  Over 700 thousand people lost their lives, over 1.4
million were injured, and approximately 23 million were
made homeless
 Overall, more than 1.5 billion people were affected
by disasters in various ways, and with women, children and people in
vulnerable situations being disproportionately affected.vulnerable situations being disproportionately affected.
 144 million people were displaced by disasters between
2008 and 2012.
 The total economic loss was more than $1.3 trillion

28.  Well, both conflicts and natural disaster affect directly the enjoyment
of human rights of affected population.
 Destroyed shelters, suffering from starvation, illness, all these are not
myth… isn’t it reality ?? Yeah, all these realities impact directly the
fundamental human rights such as right to housing, the right to food,fundamental human rights such as right to housing, the right to food,
the right to health or the right to water and sanitation.
 The obligations of the states are divided into three categories :
obligations to respect, to protect and to fulfil.`

29.  The mid term review highlighted the fact that the implementation
for action over the past five years has generated significant
international and national political momentum and action around
disaster risk reduction.
 It also highlighted the governance for the implementation of the HFA
at the national and international should be improved.at the national and international should be improved.
 The effectiveness of national platforms in informing and supporting
the executive level of decision making should be assessed.
 Common tools and guidance should be further developed and
translated in local languages along with international community
should develop more coherent and integrated approach to support
HFA implementation.

30. Lets talk about incident in Cuba…
Cuba’s tropical cyclone early warning system is credited with a
dramatic reduction in deaths from natural hazards. It includes an
early warning system and an effective response, which gives
communities at risk time to evacuate to emergency shelters.
Hurricanes gustav destroyed an estimated 100 000 homes in
cuba in 2007. although considered to be the strongest hurricanecuba in 2007. although considered to be the strongest hurricane
in 50 years, the community was prepared and there was no loss
of life.
Similarly, the Bangladesh cyclone preparedness programme, the
vigilance system in France, the multi hazard early warning
system in japan and US are executed and implemented for the
major losses.

31. Any questions please !!!