A/RES/71/226
Disaster risk reduction
Sustainable Development, in line with the Sendai Framework, and encourages the
relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes and other relevant
institutions and stakeholders to take it into consideration in the coordination and
elucidation of their respective activities, in the context of sustainable development
and according to the Sendai Framework;
7.
Calls upon all relevant actors to work towards the achievement of the
global targets agreed in the Sendai Framework;
8.
Recognizes in this regard, given the shorter time frame for achieving
target (e) of the Sendai Framework by 2020, the scale of action needed for the
development of national and local disaster risk reduction strategies, such as through
the establishment and strengthening of national disaster los s databases, national and
local risk profiles and available capacities, as well as the conduct of risk
assessments, and reaffirms the need for the enhancement of the implementation
capacity and capability of developing countries, including the mobilization of
support through international cooperation, for the provision of means of
implementation to augment domestic efforts in accordance with their national
priorities;
9.
Urges States, while implementing the Sendai Framework, to continue
working on data collection and the development of baselines on current losses,
including working towards the collection of disaggregated information and
historical disaster losses going back, at least, to 2005, if feasible;
10. Encourages Member States to give appropriate consideration to disaster
risk reduction in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, 13 where it is reflected across several Goals and targets;
11. Reiterates its strong encouragement of and the need for effective
coordination and coherence, as applicable, in the implementation of the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third
International Conference on Financing for Development, 14 the Paris Agreement
adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 10 and
the Sendai Framework, while respecting the relevant mandates, in order to build
synergies and resilience, and addressing the global challenge of eradicating poverty
in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty;
12. Urges that due consideration continue to be given 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 and subregional platforms for disaster risk
reduction and the Sendai Framework monitor;
13. Looks forward to the outcome of the open-ended intergovernmental expert
working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction,
recognizes the active engagement of Member States as well as the support from the
United Nations system and other stakeholders in its work, and stresses the need for
the outcome to be developed in coherence with the work of the Inter-Agency and
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