UNDRR ROAMC: Progress and challenges of GRAF application (Global Risk Assessment Framework) in Latin American countries

From March 7 to 9, 2022, the Forum of Latin American and Caribbean Countries on Sustainable Development 2022 will be held in Costa Rica. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), with the support of the National Commission for Risk Prevention and Emergency Attention, makes this event propitious to present, under the modality of a parallel session, the progress of the pilot exercise of the Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF) that is being developed in Costa Rica and that in the future could be implemented in other countries of the continent. Based on the experience developed, the session aims to observe the progress made and discuss the challenges faced by Latin American countries in the implementation of the GRAF.

The session will last one hour and fifteen minutes. It will be a mixed session, with face-to-face participation of representatives of the national organizations involved in the implementation of the GRAF, and there will also be an online link for the participation of representatives from all countries.

Time

12.45 - 14.15

Programme

12:45 - 13:00: Admission of participants

13:00 - 13:10: Opening Remarks

• Raúl Salazar, Director of the UNDRR - Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean.
• Alexander Solís D, President of the National Commission for Risk Prevention and Emergency Attention, Costa Rica.

13:10 - 13:20: The GRAF - UN: a proposal to advance in the fulfillment of the Sendai Framework.

• Carlos Uribe, Representative of UNDRR - Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean.

13:20 - 13:40: GRAF Costa Rica: Approach, experience, learnings 

• Patricia Ramirez, Senior Consultant.
• Carlos Picado, National Commission for Risk Prevention and Emergency Attention (CNE).

13:40 - 13:50: Disaster Loss Assessment in Costa Rica: Conditions, progress and perspective.

• Osmar Velasco, international consultant GRAF.

13:50 - 14:00: The Housing Sector: Application of GRAF in the sectors.

• Eduardo Morales, Head of Technical Analysis Department, Ministry of Housing and Human Settlements (MIVAH).

14:00 - 14:15: Challenges for the implementation of the GRAF in countries

• Carlos Uribe, Representative of UNDRR - Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean.