Disaster risk reduction is everyone’s business: Establishing and improving multi-stakeholder national coordinating mechanisms for DRR

Special session 2 of the 3rd Asian ministerial conference on disaster risk reduction

The focus for this 3rd Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction is on multi-stakeholder partnerships, there is an opportunity to consider how national and regional leadership in disaster risk reduction in Asia can enhance greater multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral mechanisms for DRR. By reviewing some of the key experiences of countries with established and emerging multi-sectoral National Platforms for DRR, as well as some of the successes of multi-stakeholder engagement by other national coordinating mechanisms, we have an opportunity to identify key issues to take into account for building functional multi-stakeholder approaches to disaster risk reduction in Asia.

This session will review examples of multi-stakeholder participation and coordination for disaster risk reduction, and seek to identify milestones and key criteria for enhancing the effectiveness and sustainability of disaster risk measures overseen by multi-stakeholder national coordinating mechanisms.

It is planned that findings and recommendations of the session will guide an envisaged regional strategy for building functional and more inclusive national coordinating mechanisms in line with the Hyogo Framework for Action and the ISDR guidelines for National Platforms.