A/RES/69/283
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
National and local levels
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To achieve this, it is important:
(a) To mainstream and integrate disaster risk reduction within and across all
sectors and review and promote the coherence and further development, as
appropriate, of national and local frameworks of laws, regulations and public
policies, which, by defining roles and responsibilities, guide the public and private
sectors in: (i) addressing disaster risk in publically owned, managed or regulated
services and infrastructures; (ii) promoting and providing incentives, as relevant, for
actions by persons, households, communities and businesses; (iii) enhancing
relevant mechanisms and initiatives for disaster risk transparency, which may
include financial incentives, public awareness-raising and training initiatives,
reporting requirements and legal and administrative measures; and (iv) putting in
place coordination and organizational structures;
(b) To adopt and implement national and local disaster risk reduction
strategies and plans, across different timescales, with targets, indicators and time
frames, aimed at preventing the creation of risk, the reduction of existing risk and
the strengthening of economic, social, health and environmental resilience;
(c) To carry out an assessment of the technical, financial and administrative
disaster risk management capacity to deal with the identified risks at the local and
national levels;
(d) To encourage the establishment of necessary mechanisms and incentives
to ensure high levels of compliance with the existing safety-enhancing provisions of
sectoral laws and regulations, including those addressing land use and urban
planning, building codes, environmental and resource management and health and
safety standards, and update them, where needed, to ensure an adequate focus on
disaster risk management;
(e) To develop and strengthen, as appropriate, mechanisms to follow
periodically assess and publicly report on progress on national and local plans;
promote public scrutiny and encourage institutional debates, including
parliamentarians and other relevant officials, on progress reports of local
national plans for disaster risk reduction;
(f) To assign, as appropriate, clear roles and tasks
representatives within disaster risk management institutions and
decision-making through relevant legal frameworks, and undertake
public and community consultations during the development of
regulations to support their implementation;
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(g) To establish and strengthen government coordination forums composed
of relevant stakeholders at the national and local levels, such as national and local
platforms for disaster risk reduction, and a designated national focal point for
implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030. It is
necessary for such mechanisms to have a strong foundation in national institutional
frameworks with clearly assigned responsibilities and authority to, inter alia,
identify sectoral and multisectoral disaster risk, build awareness and knowledge of
disaster risk through sharing and dissemination of non-sensitive disaster risk
information and data, contribute to and coordinate reports on local and national
disaster risk, coordinate public awareness campaigns on disaster risk, facilitate and
support local multisectoral cooperation (e.g. among local governments) and
contribute to the determination of and reporting on national and local disaster risk
management plans and all policies relevant for disaster risk management. These
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