Film Screening and High-Level Dialogue on Financing Tsunami Resilience

To commemorate World Tsunami Awareness Day 2025, this event will feature a film screening and high-level dialogue on the theme “Be Tsunami Ready: Investing Today for a Safer Tomorrow.” The session will highlight the urgent need to mobilize financing for tsunami and multi-hazard resilience, while emphasizing the human and gender dimensions of disaster recovery. It will showcase both the lived experience of women who led community recovery and the policy pathways needed to translate such leadership into sustainable resilience. 

Programme Highlights

• Film screening – “Tsunami Ladies”
  A powerful and emotionally engaging documentary that brings the human dimension of tsunami resilience to life. Tsunami Ladies tells the story of six women from Japan and Chile who survived the 2010 and 2011 tsunamis and turned their passion for food into a means of recovery. Through cooking and seafood, they nourished their neighbors, revived local economies, and led the rebuilding of their communities — demonstrating how women’s leadership is important to resilience and long-term recovery.
• High-level dialogue – Financing tsunami and multi-hazard resilience
  A panel discussion, followed by a moderated exchange with participants. Topics will include: Why financing for tsunami and multi-hazard early warning systems remains underfunded; innovative financing models; the role of partnerships across governments and the private sector; how gender-responsive and locally driven approaches can make disaster risk reduction financing more effective; and next steps to strengthen resilience before the next tsunami strikes.
• Networking opportunity
  A space for exchange among government officials, diplomats and other partners.