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Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
UNDESA/DSPD Public Forum

Taking Action towards a Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DiDRR)
Framework (HFA2) and its Implementation

Programme

Day:March 15
Time: 10:00-17:00
Location:Tohoku University B200
Sendai,Japan

Questions for Discussion: Issues to be addressed at the Forum

1)What are good practices that have successfully overcome the obstacles/challenges encountered in disability-inclusion in disaster risk reduction (DiDRR)? How and why were they successful?
2)What specific disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies have worked in including the disability perspective and in engaging persons with disabilities in the mainstream DRR efforts?
3)From the disability perspective, what are the priorities for the DiDRR? Who can do what in making these priorities an integral part of the priorities of the mainstream DRR policies, programmes, guidelines and practices (Governments, UN, organizations of persons with disabilities, CSOs, development agencies and other stakeholders) in order to effectively implement and monitor the HFA2 at both national and international levels?
4)How multi-stakeholder partnerships could fast track the implementation of disability-inclusive HFA2 at the global, national and local levels? What are good practices? How do we build effective multi-stakeholder networks and partnerships toward a global DiDRR movement to strengthen the overall disaster-risk reduction, resilience and reconstruction?

Opening (10am-10:50am):
Overview of Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction: Challenges and Obstacles

The Opening segment will discuss the status of DiDRR in the context of the on-going work toward a post-2015 development framework, including an overview of the DiDRR framework and its progress, challenges and obstacles in disability-inclusion in disaster risk reduction, resilience and reconstruction at both policy and programme levels.

  • Ms. Akiko Ito, Chief, SCRPD/DSPD/UNDESA
  • Mr. Jerry Velasquez, Director, Advocacy and Outreach, UNISDR
  • Mr. Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director, Global Practice on Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience,World Bank Group
  • Mr. Kingo Toyoda, Deputy Director General, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
  • Mr. Futoshi Toba, Mayor, City of Rikuzentakata
  • Mr. Desmond Swayne, Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom
  • Mr. Katsunori Fujii, President, Japan Disability Forum
  • Mr. Yasunobu Ishii, The Nippon Foundation
  • Senator Ms. Kerryann Ifill, Barbados
  • Senator Mr. Paul Njoroge Githuku, Kenya

Session 1 (10:50am-12.30pm):
Experience and Lessons Learned on the Advancement of Disaster Risk Reduction, Resilience and Reconstruction

This session will consist of sharing experiences and lessons learned on the ground to advance DiDRR,in particular, the experience of the 2011 Japan Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and DiDRR. This Session will be led by the Japan Disability Forum, in collaboration with DESA/DSPD and followed by an interactive discussion.

  • Moderator: Ms. Miki Ebara, NHK World Editor-in-Chief
    • Mr. Naoki Kurano, Japan Disability Forum/ Japanese Federation of the Deaf
    • Mr. Futoshi Toba, Mayor, City of Rikuzentakata
    • Senator Monthian Buntan,Thailand
    • Ms. Akiko Fukuda, Secretary-General, World Federation of the DeafBlind
    • Ms. Marcie Roth, FEMA,USA
    • Dr. Alex Camacho, Technical Secretary of Disability, Government of Ecuador

Session 2: Present and Future of DiDRR
(1) DiDRR policies, programme and implementation (1.30pm-3:00pm)

This segment will discuss how to successfully advance DiDRR policies and their implementation in the global, regional, national and local contexts. The discussion will include good practices in removal of physical, social and cultural barriers to DiDRR as well as "emerging DiDRR issues" such as mental health and mental well-being, social groups with increased vulnerabilities and promotion of the use of DiDRR technologies.

  • Moderator: Dr. Takashi Izutsu, Senior Knowledge Management Officer, World Bank Group
    • Mr.Toshiya Ueki, Vice Chancellor Professor, Tohoku University
    • Mr. Hiroshi Kawamura, focal point of the Disability Caucus for 3WCDRR
    • Prof. Norito Kawakami, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
    • Senator Ms. Kerryann Ifill, Barbados
    • Mr. Adam Kosa, European Parliament
    • Mr. Takashi Kubota, Deputy Mayor, City of Rikuzentakata
    • Mr. Matthew Rodieck, Rehabilitation International
    • Rattray Gordon CBM

(2) A Way Forward: steps toward realization of DiDRR (3:00pm-4:30pm)

This segment will focus on "next steps" in preparation for the implementation of the HFA2. It will examine the role of governments, the UN system, organizations of persons with disabilities and other disability and civil society organizations, expert/academic communities, private foundations as well as the private sector and how they can go beyond "boundaries" to achieve the goal of disability-inclusion in disaster risk reduction, resilience and reconstruction. The discussion will also explore and take stock of ways and means to strengthen global/regional/national and local networks and build new partnerships for concrete results in implementing DiDRR.

  • Moderator: Mr. Hiroshi Kawamura, Focal point for the Disability Caucus for DiDRR
    • Ms. Marcie Roth, USA
    • Ms. Aiko Akiyama, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(UNESCAP)
    • Mr. Ivars Nakurts, Latvian Presidency of the Council of European Union
    • Senator Mr. Monthian Buntan, Thailand
    • Senator Mr. Paul Njoroge Githuku, Kenya
    • Dr. Atsuro Tsutsumi, Coordinator, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
    • Mr. Vladimir Cuk, Executive Director, International Disability Alliance

Closing Session (4.30pm-5.00pm): Summary and Recommendations

The session will include a presentation of summaries of the preceding sessions as well as the recommendations for next steps to implement DiDRR in global, national, regional and local contexts. Closing remarks will be also presented by:

  • Mr. Katsunori Fujii, Japan Disability Forum
  • Mr. Yasunobu Ishii, The Nippon Foundation
  • UNDESA

For the detailed information:
http://www.wcdrr.org/conference/events/385