“The 2017 Platform provides the Pacific region with a unique opportunity to shape the local and national level implementation and monitoring of the Sendai Framework and overall 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that in turn will deliver on its Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific,” UNISDR’s Pacific Coordinator Andy McElroy said.

“The region is again demonstrating its leadership in terms of coherent and integrated development. This all-of-society approach to disaster and climate resilience, under the leadership of governments, is a global example.”

One of the key sessions of the joint meeting will look at how the Sendai Monitor can be rolled out and usefully contribute to regional reviews of the Framework for Resilient Development as it measures progress on reducing mortality, the numbers of disaster affected, economic losses and damage to critical infrastructure.

The Joint Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Roundtable is organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), along with two key regional organizations, the Pacific Community (SPC), and the Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).

The joint platform/roundtable forms part of a series of meetings that make up the Pacific Resilience Week. It carries the overall theme: Pathways to a Resilient Pacific. The other forums are: Pacific Humanitarian Partnership; Pacific Climate Change Round Table, and Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific.

The new Pacific Resilience Meeting that will take place in 2018 will act as the sub-regional platform that will feed into the worldwide review of the Sendai Framework at the next Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, in Geneva, in May 2019.

Date: 3 Oct 2017

Sources:United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (UNISDR AP)

Themes:Climate Change

Regions:Oceania