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Preliminary Consultative Meeting on Building a Global Network of NGOs for Community Resilience to Disasters, Geveva, 25-26 October

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

A key element of the institutional arrangement of the ISDR

Background Functions of GP/DRR 2007 session - format Procedures for participation Outputs

Reid Basher, ISDR secretariat

Preliminary Consultative Meeting on Building a Global Network of NGOs for Community Resilience to Disasters, Geveva, 25-26 October

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Need for global goods, assessments, coherency, coordination Expands on IATF/DR – broader membership + Governments

– Some NGO’s were already in IATF/DR but participation should be strengthened

Links humanitarian, sectorial development, environment/S&T actors; civil society and governments

New focus on better support to countries, building resilience, implementing Hyogo Framework

Will be a core institutional arrangement of ISDR

GP/DRR – what is the rationale?

Preliminary Consultative Meeting on Building a Global Network of NGOs for Community Resilience to Disasters, Geveva, 25-26 October

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Systematically advocate and share knowledge among

practitioners and experts;

Improve the coherency of international action on

disaster risk reduction at all levels – setting common

priorities; and

Provide reviews and evaluations of progress toward

disaster risk reduction.

GP/DRR – three principal functions

- Will be a technical and not intergovernmental meeting

Preliminary Consultative Meeting on Building a Global Network of NGOs for Community Resilience to Disasters, Geveva, 25-26 October

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Geneva, 5-7 June – plus meetings on days before and after

Main ‘multi-stakeholder’ plenary – set rules, hears reviews, plus

high level panel?

Parallel technical workshops (2–3) on key issues (e.g.national

reporting, mainstreaming, national platforms/mechanisms…)

Opportunity for holding other forums, partner events

Guided by prior regional/sub-regional consultations and thematic

inputs

GP/DRR 2007 session – likely format

Preliminary Consultative Meeting on Building a Global Network of NGOs for Community Resilience to Disasters, Geveva, 25-26 October

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Membership “open” but is subject to DRR purposes

Builds on IATF/DR membership and national ISDR focal points

Prior “consolidation” of regional and thematic veiwpoints

Expectations from ‘members’ (e.g. regular reporting, commitment

to implementing Hyogo Framework, etc…) to be determined

Open participation for observers

Announcement and procedures for participation - January 2007

Procedures for participation – under discussion

Preliminary Consultative Meeting on Building a Global Network of NGOs for Community Resilience to Disasters, Geveva, 25-26 October

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Common report on progress in disaster risk reduction Direction and guidance for Hyogo Framework implementation -

including key issues, setting standards, reporting, etc

Agreement on joint work programming approach and on priorities for joint international action

Collation of caucus statements (including NGOs?)

GP/DRR - expected outputs

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