In 2021 the 'Sendai Seven Campaign' focused on International cooperation for developing countries to reduce their disaster risk and disaster losses.
About the theme:
Only together... can we save the planet!
The year 2021 promises to be a make or break year when it comes to delivering on the policy agenda agreed in 2015 when the Sendai Framework, the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement, and the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda and other important frameworks.
Reducing mortality, reducing the numbers of people injured, displaced, and left without a livelihood has never been more challenging given the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing climate emergency. The increasingly complex and systemic nature of disaster risk is undermining efforts to achieve the overall 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, notably the eradication of poverty and hunger and the rest of SDGs.
Read more in the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction Concept Note and Key Messages.
Systemic Disaster Risk Handbook Showcase Webinar
AIDR launched the highly anticipated Systemic Disaster Risk Handbook virtually on 13 October 2021. The webinar featured leading Australian experts who shared the latest thinking and action on systemic disaster risk, and unpacked the core concepts in the Handbook:
- Disaster and emergency risk management is evolving to include systemic disaster risk and resilience to inform broader risk reduction efforts.
- Whole-of-society involvement in managing risk is vital to resilience and reducing loss and harm caused by disasters.
- Inclusive governance and risk cultures framed around place-based, systemic resilience and sustainable outcomes is key.
- People and communities need tools, ability, and knowledge beyond traditional emergency management to resist, absorb, accommodate, recover, transform, and thrive in response to the effects of shocks and stresses.
Guest speakers:
- Jillian Edwards, Beyond Business as Usual and handbook writer
- Professor Alan March, University of Melbourne
- Ramana James, IAG
- Beck Dawson, Resilient Sydney
Moderator: Amanda Leck, Former Executive Director, AIDR