Discussants from three regional ACP entities shared information about their ongoing projects. H.E. Sacko Josefa Leonel Correa, Commissioner, Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission, highlighted its ongoing project with UNISDR. 

Ms. Audrey Aumua, Deputy Director-General, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and Ms. Andria Grosvenor, from the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) pointed to the need for continued support to strengthen existing disaster risk reduction efforts. Dr. Natallie Corrie-Kordas, Expert at the ACP Secretariat, underscored the importance of a firm political commitment and joint resolve to uphold environmental and moral integrity. 

In their concluding remarks, H.E. Mr. Enrique Guerrero Salom, Member of European Parliament and Mr. Johannes Luchner, Director of Emergency Management at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) both noted the need to work to mainstream disaster risk reduction into all policies, including public and private investments. 

The session underscored the need for shared responsibility to reduce risk, based on varying capabilities, and the representatives of the ACP, UNISDR, European Commission, Pacific Community, CARICOM and ECCAS committed to continue working together with other international and ACP regional institutions, to achieve the targets of the Sendai Framework, by 2030. 

The event was convened as part of the "Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities" programme (funded by the European Union (EU) with EUR 80 million, for a five-year implementation period in Africa until 2020, as part of a dedicated cooperation for disaster risk reduction between the EU and ACP. This cooperation also includes three other disaster risk reduction programmes supporting the ACP Group of States with additional funding from the 10th European Development Fund (EDF) of EUR 100 million. 

Date:

21 Jun 2017

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

Themes:

Governance

Regions:

Africa, Europe, Oceania