ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships adopt resolution for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk
The ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk, established by participating organizations during the Working Session “Underlying Risk Factors” at the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), will focus on delivering tangible and practical results that are directly related to the implementation of the goals and targets of the post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Partnerships will be mobilized in the coming decade to pursue prevention, to provide practical solutions, education, communication, and public outreach to reduce landslide disaster risk. These Partnerships will engage all significant stakeholders concerned with the challenge of understanding and reducing disaster risk, including relevant international, national, local, governmental, and non-governmental institutions, programmes and initiatives. The Partnerships will focus on delivering tangible and practical results that are directly related to the implementation of the goals and targets of the post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Partners in the “Partnerships” will adopt the following Resolution:
ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk (Tools for Implementing and Monitoring the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Sustainable Development Goals).
The Working Session “Underlying Risk Factors” at the 3rd WCDRR, was co-organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) and its International Programme on Landslides (IPL) together with UNESCO, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and other pertinent organizations.
The causes that create risk and their cumulative effects, as well as the relevant achievements of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015, were reviewed at the Working Session. Steps to address the principal drivers of vulnerability and exposure and to support hazard and risk assessment were also suggested.
The International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) hosts the Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 as a voluntary commitment to the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai, Japan. The ICL Secretariat in Kyoto, Japan, serves as the Secretariat of the Sendai Partnerships.
Photos of the Signing Ceremony can be found at the link below.