A/RES/70/204
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
6.
Encourages focused action within and across sectors by countries at the
local, national, regional and global levels in the four priority areas of the Sendai
Framework, namely, understanding disaster risk, strengthening disaster risk
governance to manage disaster risk, investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience
and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response and to “build back
better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction;
7.
Calls upon all relevant actors to work towards the achievement of the
seven global targets agreed in the Sendai Framework;
8.
Encourages Member States to give appropriate consideration to disaster
risk reduction in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development 11 where it is reflected across several Goals and targets;
9.
Reiterates its strong encouragement of and the need for effective
coordination and coherence, as applicable, between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference
on Financing for Development 12 and the Sendai Framework, as well as the
negotiations of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, while respecting the respective mandates, in order
to build synergies and resilience, and achieving the global goal of eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty;
10. Welcomes the commencement of the work of the open-ended
intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology on dis aster
risk reduction, and looks forward to its outcomes, in coherence with the work of the
Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators;
11. Decides to give due consideration to the review of the global progress in
the implementation of the Sendai Framework as part of the integrated and
coordinated follow-up processes to United Nations conferences and summits,
aligned with the Economic and Social Council, the high-level political forum on
sustainable development and the quadrennial comprehensive policy review cycles,
as appropriate, taking into account the contributions of the Global Platform for
Disaster Risk Reduction and regional platforms for disaster risk reduction and the
updated monitoring tool based on the Hyogo Framework for Action Monitor;
12. Recognizes that, while each State has the primary responsibility for
preventing and reducing disaster risk, it is a shared responsibility between
Governments and relevant stakeholders, and also recognizes that non -State and
other relevant stakeholders, including major groups, parliaments, civil society, the
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, non-governmental
organizations, national platforms for disaster risk reduction, focal points for the
Sendai Framework, local government representatives, scientific institutions and the
private sector, as well as organizations and relevant agencies, programmes and
funds of the United Nations system and other relevant institutions and
intergovernmental organizations, play an important role as enablers in providing
support to States, in accordance with national policies, laws and regulations, in the
implementation of the Sendai Framework at the local, national, regional and global
levels;
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Resolution 69/313.