UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA)

Guidance and Indicator Package for Implementing Priority Five of the Hyogo

Framework for Action: Disaster Preparedness for Effective

Response

Dusan Zupka, Deputy Chief

Emergency Preparedness Section

OCHA

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA)

Purpose

I. Presentation of the Guidance and Indicator Package

II. Ongoing roll out/ implementation activities

III. Discussion on responsibilities of all humanitarian actors in furthering implementation of HFA 5, especially those who are members of the UN ISDR System

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• Origin: a request from the IASC following the Kobe WCDR in 2005 for further guidance specifically on priority 5

• Development was led by OCHA in collaboration with the ISDR Secretariat

• Process included many consultations and in particular a 2-day inter-agency workshop in November 2006

• Many individuals and organisations, especially IASC members contributed substantially

I. Presentation of the Guidance and Indicator Package

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• Objective: to provide guidance for the implementation of HFA Priority 5

• Target audience: Governments, local authorities, and other key stakeholders, including regional and international actors

• Intended to expand specifically on chapter 5 of “Words into Action” (UN/ISDR, 2007)

• Level of depth kept at a quite general level requiring to be adapted to each particular context with more concrete and detailed indicators based on existing level of preparedness and experience

• Can serve as « check-list » for a holistic preparedness planning process

I. Presentation of the Guidance and Indicator Package

Objective and audience

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I. Presentation of the Guidance and Indicator Package

Overall approach based on HFA• Places disaster preparedness within a holistic risk

reduction framework as called for by the HFA• The HFA specifically calls for fostering this holistic

approach by:– Promoting and supporting

• dialogue, • exchange of information and • coordination

– At all levels among relevant agencies and institutions in charge of

• early warning, • disaster risk reduction, • disaster response, and• development

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I. Presentation of the Guidance and Indicator Package

Structure

• 3 chapters, each part with indicators directed at Governments, civil society, regional organisations and international actors– Chapter 1: Holistic Approaches, Strategies, and

Institutional Frameworks– Chapter 2: Key Components of Preparedness

Planning – Chapter 3: Readiness for Response

http://ocha.unog.ch/drptoolkit/

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i. Dissemination to key actors & translation

ii. Awareness raising through presentations in appropriate national, regional and international coordination fora

iii. Country level implementation through the support in organisation of planning workshops and follow up

II. Ongoing roll out/ implementation activities

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II. Ongoing roll out/ implementation activities

Dissemination & translation

• To IASC agencies through message by Director of OCHA Gva, 3 July 08

• To RC/HCs by joint letter by Director of OCHA Gva & Director of ISDR Secretariat – planned beginning of August

• To country level Humanitarian Partnership Teams/ Disaster Management Teams and national disaster management counterparts, through RC/HCs

• Translation into French and Spanish planned in the coming months

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II. Ongoing roll out/ implementation activities

Awareness raising

Past activities:• LAC region: Regional workshop of UNETT focal

points in Panama in May 2008• Senegal (June 08) and Ghana (July 08):

sensitisation during national contingency planning workshops

Current: present briefing at IASC weekly meetingPlanned for the rest of 2008:• ADRC Annual Conference Indonesia, Asian DRR

Ministerial Conference, Malaysia• Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo, Central and Easter Africa

– Inter Agency Preparedness Workshop• Honduras, Mexico, Colombia

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II. Ongoing roll out/ implementation activities

Country level implementation

So far:• Uganda (March 2008): pilot testing of the GIP in a national

disaster preparedness workshop (see at http://www.ugandaclusters.ug/disaster.htm)

• Nicaragua & Peru (June 2008): National preparedness planning workshops

Objective of workshops:• Elaboration of national disaster preparedness action plan,

highlighting gaps and defining specific activities over a period of one to two years (see Uganda example)

Key element:• Participation and commitment of all key actors, incl.

Government counterparts, relevant national and international NGOs, UN agencies and other IOs, donors, and other relevant actors

• Future plans: Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Central and Eastern Africa, Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo

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Key considerations: • IASC WG and Principals have repeatedly confirmed

their commitment to disaster risk reduction and preparedness

• April 2007, IASC Principals – “reaffirmed their commitment to the HFA and to increased efforts

in support of national DRR capacities in a multi-sectoral way, with increased consultations and coordination within the IASC framework and active participation in the ISDR system”

• The 2nd meeting of the Global Platform on DRR in 2009 will provide a key event for evaluating progress

III. Responsibilities of IASC agencies and partners

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• Humanitarian actors, in view of their crucial role in the area of preparedness, will be asked to account for their support in the implementation of HFA Priority 5 during the 2009 Global Platform

• Together with other existing guidance, the GIP provides the opportunity to follow a common approach in support of national disaster preparedness capacities

• OCHA welcomes opportunities for collaborating in implementation of the GIP for strengthening preparedness capacities at national level

• Discussions are ongoing with several countries for replicating experiences gained in Uganda, Peru and Nicaragua

• Several IASC members are also part of the ISDR System with responsibilities for the implementation of the HFA, Priority 5

• ISDR system joint work program for the HFA, Priority 5• Need to agree on a common approach/concept ( SWG on

Preparedness and Contingency Planning)

III. Responsibilities of IASC agencies and partners

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