The UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030: Negotiation Process and Prospects for Science and Practice
On 18 March 2015, at the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 187 members states signed the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR). This global agreement on national action for disaster risk reduction (DRR) replaced the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015 (HFA). The SFDRR agreement was only the final stage of a long process that involved many consultations across government and with civil society at national, regional and global levels. The closing negotiations were fraught and required a final 36 h non-stop stretch of debate before the host nation, Japan and supporting UN agency, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), could declare consensus.
On 18 March 2015, at the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 187 members states signed the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR). This global agreement on national action for disaster risk reduction (DRR) replaced the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015 (HFA). The SFDRR agreement was only the final stage of a long process that involved many consultations across government and with civil society at national, regional and global levels. The closing negotiations were fraught and required a final 36 h non-stop stretch of debate before the host nation, Japan and supporting UN agency, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), could declare consensus.