This Words into Action guide aims to strengthen the capacity of Member States to implement the Sendai Framework and the Water Convention by offering a road map with concrete examples to help address water-related disasters, especially in situations where the transboundary context adds to the complexity of risk reduction. It specifically targets the water, disaster risk reduction and climate change communities and aims to bring them together so that they may jointly design effective and comprehensive disaster reduction measures.

A public review of the publication has already highlighted the need and appetite for such a text within practitioners’ circles.

Callist Tindimugaya, from the Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda said: “The Words into Action Implementation Guide…is a very welcome development…[It] highlights the need for employing an integrated water resources management approach following a basin as a means of effectively addressing water related-disasters and adapting to impacts of climate change.

“Awareness about the importance of river basin management and transboundary cooperation in Disaster Risk Reduction is still very low in many parts of the world and I hope that this guide will fill this gap,” said Mr. Tindimugaya.

Date:

12 Oct 2018

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

Themes:

Capacity Development, Climate Change, Advocacy & Media, Recovery, Risk Identification & Assessment, Water, Disaster Risk Management

Regions:

Europe