The SENDAI Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) is a significantly ambitious agreement for disaster risk reduction. It was approved by the United Nations at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in SENDAI in 2015. The SENDAI Framework is the first significant agreement on the post-2015 development agenda. UNDRR supports them at the request of the United Nations General Assembly. It came into force due to stakeholder consultations initiated in March 2012 and intergovernmental negotiations from July 2014 to March 2015.
The Regulation aims to reduce the loss of life, livelihood, and health, as the losses in the economic, physical, social, cultural, and environmental assets of individuals, businesses, communities, or countries. The SENDAI Framework continues the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015. It covers not only evolutionary natural hazards but also technological hazards. Technological hazards include chemical, industrial, radiological, nuclear, biological, and other risks.
Governments at the state level share responsibilities for disaster risk reduction with other stakeholders such as local governments, the private sector, and other non-state actors. Four clear priorities for action and seven global targets have been set to reduce disaster risk significantly. The priority of its four steps is to understand the disaster risk. SENDAI emphasizes the importance of identifying potentially hazardous activities to target prevention, preparedness, and response efforts. Disaster risk management is based on understanding disaster risk in all its dimensions, such as vulnerability, capacity, exposure of persons and assets, hazard characteristics, and the environment.
SENDAI lays out preventive measures to be carried out by national authorities and operators, including legislative and institutional standards. Disaster risk governance at the national, regional, and global levels is crucial to prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, and rehabilitation. SENDAI promotes cooperation and partnership. It also deals with Regulation and placing hazardous facilities as part of land use planning policies and measures to minimize population and environmental risks. Structural and non-structural steps and public and private investment in disaster risk prevention and reduction are essential for individuals, communities, countries, and their assets. In addition, it is necessary to increase the environment's economic, social, health, and cultural resilience. The Regulation also allows parties to establish their legal and institutional frameworks at local, national, and regional levels to prevent, prepare for and respond to industrial accidents.
Prevention of technological disaster risks is promoted through institutional, legislative, and practical measures adopted by authorities and operators. It brings with it the obligation to adopt legislation on disaster risk reduction, which requires operators of hazardous facilities to ensure and demonstrate that their activities are carried out safely. Investing appropriately in all aspects of DRR (Disaster risk reduction) and industrial accident prevention is critical to strengthen resilience.
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Çağın Ergün
Source:
https://unece.org/sendai-framework
https://www.preventionweb.net/files/43291_sendaiframeworkfordrren.pdf
https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/sendai-framework/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai_Framework_for_Disaster_Risk_Reduction
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