Disaster risk governance during the HFA implementation period

The purpose of this thematic review is twofold: firstly, to obtain an understanding of progress and evolution of disaster risk governance over the period 2005-2014; secondly, to inform the policy dialogue on future disaster risk management challenges and the mechanisms for addressing them.

In particular, the review intends to inform and influence the successor framework on disaster risk reduction on how to embrace and integrate new dimensions of disaster risk governance that have emerged since 2015, and that see governance as a process and not just as a series of outputs, such as policies, laws or plans.

This document is a background paper of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.