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How Inclusion, Gender equality and Innovation lead to Sustainable Development for DRR – Lessons learned from RISK Award projects

The Sendai Framework aims at preventing the creation of new risk, reduce existing risk and increase resilience. We want to showcase the importance of medium-sized and replicable community and NGO-based DRR projects. The DRR-projects are based in Chile, Vietnam and Bangladesh. They address all three main Sendai goals in different ways. All showcased projects have won the RISK Award, hosted by UNDRR and Munich Re Foundation.

In Chile the work is about including people with disabilities in existing DRM frameworks at different political scales (local, regional, national), thus reducing existing risks for vulnerable groups. 
In Vietnam we aim to support women to play a larger role in community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation via eco-based solutions, thus hindering the creation of current and new risks as well as strengthening livelihoods. 

In Bangladesh we use innovative new housing concepts to better adapt to climate changes, especially floods and cyclones. All three projects inherently increase the resilience of the projects’ beneficiaries and beyond.

The title of the GP DRR 2025 is "Every Day Counts, Act for Resilience Today". We wholeheartedly support this demand. The days of theoretical demands, simulation games and shifting responsibility back and forth are over. Hundreds of millions of people around the world are exposed to various risks. Not in the future, but today. Climate change will drastically increase many of these risks. The only way out here, as we are failing on the hazard/climate mitigation side due to weak climate policies, is to reduce vulnerability and exposure and thereby increase resilience. We use concrete examples to show how successful DRM can be implemented today - even with small means - and can achieve great impact. The presented projects provide on-the-ground experiences of how to manage current/future disaster risks and uncertainties, prioritize gender equality and efforts to leave no one behind, and accelerate implementation.

Session objectives

The special thing about this side event is that we showcase projects with a funding volume of around €100,000. This is above many innovation challenges and small-scale funding but far below the large UN, EU or national programs. There is a huge demand for this kind of funding opportunities, but the supply is minimal. A lot of potential innovation and action is lost by that.

The aim of the side event is to show how medium-sized projects run by NGOs and communities can create valuable empirical and scalable examples of successful disaster risk reduction, thereby making an important contribution to the goal of the Sendai Framework. In the event, we will also highlight hurdles and show solutions to overcome them. The challenges we address are:

  • Inclusion of all relevant stakeholder groups
  • Gender equality in DRR
  • Alignment and integration into existing political frameworks
  • Financing

Moderator:

  • Christian Barthelt, Munich Re Foundation (tbc)

Speakers:

  • Carlos Kaiser, ONG Inclusiva
  • My Pham, University of Potsdam
  • Philip Bubeck, University of Potsdam
  • Nandan Mukherjee, University of Dundee
  • Roufa Khanum, C3ER, BRAC University
  • Julia Cadaval Martins, Global Resilience Partnership

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Organized by

  • Munich Re Foundation, Germany
  • ONG Inclusiva, Chile
  • UNESCO Centre for Water Law, University of Dundee, UK
  • C3ER, BRAC University, Bangladesh
  • University of Potsdam, Germany
  • Global Resilience Partnership

Location

Room 3
CICG

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