Session Information

• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Resilience
• Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Outline

"Workshop for Accelerating DRR Innovation
- Leveraging a nexus of science & technology, policy, and the private sector The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) underscores the strategic roles of the science and technology community and the private sector in disaster risk reduction efforts. While national and subnational governments are primarily responsible for managing disaster risks, the private sector and academia also play vital roles in promoting knowledge development, innovation, and financing, among others, to reduce disaster risk and build more resilient communities.
The increasing complexity of risks and their cascading impacts across different geographies, systems, sectors, and scales necessitate transformative, all-hazard, all-of-society approaches to enhance social and infrastructural resilience, and to achieve sustainable development.
Leveraging a Nexus for Resilience – Challenges and Opportunities: The Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework held in 2023, provided a significant opportunity to review progress and bolster implementation of the Framework towards 2030. Member states reaffirmed the instrumental and cross-cutting role of science, technology and innovation in strengthening disaster resilience, while encouraging their greater application to support and accelerate the implementation of the Sendai Framework.
The nexus between science and technology, policy, and the private sector is essential in putting the outcomes of the mid-term review of the Sendai Framework into practice. The involvement of scientific and academic organizations is critical in understanding the underlying causes of disasters, developing effective risk reduction strategies, and ensuring that these strategies are evidence-based. The private sector is critical source for new technologies and innovations building on its expertise and efficiencies.
However, the lack of collaboration and coordination among these sectors remains a barrier to the integration of scientific research and private sector innovation into disaster risk reduction policymaking processes, hindering progress on enhancing
resilience.
Bridging this gap is crucial to translating research findings and emerging innovations into actionable policy solutions that can benefit those affected by disasters. UNDRR supports this by convening and supporting collaboration between these sectors. For the final six years of the Sendai Framework, focusing on accelerators to enhance this nexus will be essential to enable more effective, efficient and coordinated approaches for disaster risk reduction and resilience at all levels.
In this context, UNDRR has launched the “DRR Innovation Accelerator - Building a nexus of science and technology, policy, and the private sector” initiative. With the long-term vision of this initiative to provide an interface where solving issues and addressing challenges in Disaster Risk Reduction will be supported and facilitated via the created and enhanced nexus among science and technology, policy, and the private sector. As part of this initiative, UNDRR convenes a global consultation workshop to be held on the margins of the World Bosai Forum (7-9 March 2025, Sendai City, Japan) leveraging the presence of many science and technology stakeholders together with various stakeholders and marking the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Sendai Framework. This workshop will focus on sharing good examples, enablers and mechanisms which create a nexus among the three stakeholders, so that they work together to help explore solutions in Disaster Risk Reduction."