UNISDR Monitoring of Progress in Reducing Risk to Water

Related Disasters

Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters

• Integrating disaster risk reduction into sustainable development.

• Stronger institutions, mechanisms and capacities to build resilience.

• Risk reduction in emergency preparedness, response and recovery.

Conceptual framework

Description

1. Evidence base for risk reduction

• Assessing global risk

• Monitoring progress in Hyogo Framework

• Analyzing and guiding decision making

• Spatial distribution of seven natural hazards (not all fully modeled) and associated human and economical exposure

• Identification of risk/vulnerability drivers

• Spatial risk distribution patterns (human and economical)

• Index for comparing countries at risk

• Risk trend analysis

• Provide full access to data for end users

The Global Risk Analysis is……one of the important component of ISDR work. It focused on intensive mortality and economical risk from natural hazards world-wide.

It aims to address the following questions:

Progress reported by 102 countries

Main indicators/messages

Usual

- Impacts of disasters

- Levels of risk

- Climate change trends on extremes and risk

Emerging

- Effectiveness of investments in reducing risk (cost/benefit)

Main questions

• Decisions taken every day in the water sector can increase or reduce risk to natural hazards and climate change

• Addressing water related hazard risk requires a broad set of actions (institutional, risk assessment, early warning, awareness, risk sharing/insurance, prepardness and response) reflected in the disaster risk reduction framework

Data gaps/opportunities/barriers

• Lack of information on infrastructure at risk to disasters

• Lack of data, from water sector, on water related disasters impacts (socio/economic) and risk

National water-related investment needs

• Investment required to reduce risk to natural hazards– Water storage and distribution

• Investments required to reduce risk of floods and droughts by water sector

Recommendations and contributions to Water Country Briefs project

• Definition of level of risk of water sector operations regarding different natural hazards. i.e. use of cost/benefit for retrofitting existing installations and additional cost of new ones

• Review water sectors responsibilities regarding flood and drought risk, effective assessment of risk, engagement with other national actors….