2017 Volume 25 Issue 2 Pages 69-83
This paper describes the experience of the global community after ten years of implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action, the global blueprint for reducing disaster risk. The paper reviews the status of achievements and the remaining gaps as reported by counties over this HFA decade, and outlines the challenges that need to be addressed under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which replaces the HFA, and which sets ambitious targets and goals for all to achieve over a period of 15 years to 2030. The paper then elaborates a few key issues identified in the Sendai Framework, as those that may contribute the most to achieve its goals, and then concludes with the observation that our understanding of the options for actions to build resilience is not as developed, as compared to our understanding of the disaster risks. The paper then notes the opportunity now for the global academic and research community to support the elaboration of these options for actions to build resilience, in particular the cost and benefits of these options and between options, which will form the basis for accelerated actions by countries and stakeholders in the coming years.
