Implementation of the Sendai Framework in Asia and the Pacific : International Network for Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (IN-MHEWS) Sung Eun KIM Disaster Risk Reduction Section, IDD, ESCAP May 2016, New Delhi, India
Increasing impact of Disasters in Asia-Pacific Calling for Regional Cooperation
Increasing threats from disasters : Call for deepening regional cooperation Losses and economic damage are phenomenal and rising building resilience is not a choice, but a collective imperative and key component of sustainable development
Cross-border hazards : Call for deepening regional cooperation Many of hazards are cross-borders Typhoons and tropical cyclones that affect multiple countries simultaneously (Cyclone Winston in Feb 2016 Fiji as well as Australia and Tonga); Active fault lines that across many national borders (Nepal earthquake in Apr 2015 Nepal as well as Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar); Cross-border river basin floods; Droughts from monsoon variability and El Nino phenomena.
Cross-border hazards : Call for deepening regional cooperation Source: ESCAP(2015) Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2015
Cross-border hazards : Call for deepening regional cooperation Deepening regional cooperation for disasters
Sendai Framework and Multi-hazard early warning systems
Sendai Framework : called for strengthening MHEWS The Sendai Framework for DRR: Multi-hazard early warning systems are recognized as an important factor in reducing the risk, and called for enhancing and strengthening multi-hazard early warning systems; In particular, among the seven global targets, Target (g): Substantially increase the availability of and access to multihazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to the people by 2030.
Sendai Framework : called for strengthening MHEWS In response IN-MHEWS has been established at the WCDRR working session on EW A multi-stakeholder partnership & supports the SFDRR implementation Aims to facilitate the sharing of expertise and good practice for MHEWS An international conference on MHEWS Early 2017? It will be the global opportunity to merge knowledge and on how to design and implement MHEWS
Implementation of the SFDRR : in the Asia-Pacific region Member States of ESCAP Also recognized the need to strengthen people-centred MHEWS Requested the ESCAP secretariat to work on MHEWS at the regional level through the Commission resolution 71/12 * Commission resolution 71/12, Article 4(d): To guide actions at the regional level through agreed regional and subregional strategies and mechanisms to strengthen disaster risk modelling, assessment, mapping, monitoring and multi-hazard early warning systems of common and transboundary disasters, particularly those related to hydrometeorological issues, by deepening existing regional cooperation mechanisms such as the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones and the Regional Cooperative Mechanisms for Drought Monitoring and Early Warning, as well as by extending regional cooperation for floods, glacial lake outburst floods and landslides;
Implementation of the SFDRR : in the Asia-Pacific region Accordingly, ESCAP outlined a concept MHEWS, based on ESCAP s experience in regional mechanisms including Panel on Tropical Cyclones, Typhoon Committee, Regional Drought Mechanisms and Multi-donor Trust Fund on Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness. ESCAP's new initiatives on Regional cooperation mechanism for flood forecasting and early warning in transboundary river basins, and A research network(s) for flash floods, GLOFS and landslides
Deepening and Extending Regional Cooperation Mechanism
Deepening regional cooperation : Panel on Tropical Cyclones & TC In this respect, strengthening the established regional platforms including the Panel on Tropical Cyclones and the Typhoon Committee is critical. PTC Coordinated Technical Plan states Vision To Promote and coordinate the planning and implementation of the Multi-Hazard Early Warning based DRR System. Mission To recommend measures to improve multi-hazard early warning systems in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea
Deepening regional cooperation : Panel on Tropical Cyclones & TC Training workshop on MHEWS (September 2016) To build the capacity of the member States of the PTC and TC on MHEWS In collaboration with the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) and the RSMC in New Delhi, tapping into the expertise and good practices built up by countries in the region. The PTC and the TC offer successful models of regional cooperation that could potentially be replicated in other sub-regions and for other crossborder hazards in Asia and the Pacific.
Scaling up the Regional Cooperative Mechanism for Drought Monitoring & Early Warning ESCAP Drought Monitoring Mechanism In-season space applications products/services It mobilizes regional resources in space technology and GIS applications and enhances capacities for integrated analysis of space and in-season ground data and info to build resilience. DISASTERS WITHOUT BORDERS Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2015
Scaling up the Regional Cooperative Mechanism for Drought Monitoring & Early Warning Pilot Countries and Service Nodes To date, eight countries have joined the Mechanism s programme, reflecting a variety of climate and socioeconomic circumstances (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka). Regional service nodes - the National Remote Sensing Centre of China and the National Remote Sensing Centre of the ISRO + Japan (JAXA) and Thailand (GISTDA). Potential partners: Australia and the Russian Federation It is increasingly expanding its work to move beyond monitoring and early warning, to incorporate seasonal forecasts, longer term risk analysis, impact assessment and other tools. Early Warning Monitoring Seasonal Forecast Impact Assessment Drought mechanism products and services Climate Outlook DISASTERS WITHOUT BORDERS Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2015
Regional Cooperation Platforms for Cross-border floods are UNMET NEEDS Amu Darya River Basin 34 floods, 517 fatalities, $90 million damage Indus River Basin 45 floods, 4,214 fatalities, $10 billion damage Amur River Basin 13 floods, 176 fatalities, $320 million damage Transboundary river basins are also home to a large number of poor and vulnerable. Around 40% of the world s poor live on or close to the major transboundary river basins in South Asia Ganges River Basin 35 floods, 8,307 fatalities, $8.2 billion damage Mekong River Basin 39 floods, 2,877 fatalities, $2.7 billion damage Brahmaputra River Basin 32 floods, 8,392 fatalities, $11.2 billion damage Salween River Basin 6 floods, 223 fatalities, $40 million damage Source: Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2015 and Flood Risk, OCHA, 2014 impact data (2000-2010)from G.R.Brakenridge, "Global Active Archive of Large Flood Events", Dartmouth Flood Observatory, University of Colorado
ESCAP s Effort on Regional Cooperation for Cross-border Floods ESCAP twin-track approach Focus on innovations in flood forecasting Longer lead time forecast strengthens household response with tangible benefits to the vulnerable and poor. Recent advances in weather forecasting, modeling systems and space applications enables longer lead times (up to 5-8 days). Training workshop on flood forecasting in transboundary river basins (October 2016) Establish inter-governmental platform of stakeholders In transboundary river basins, it requires cooperation and sustained engagements of key stakeholders. ESCAP is conducting the feasibility study to put in place an inter-governmental platform comprising hydrologists, meteorologists and disaster risk reduction professionals from the riparian countries of transboundary river-basins. The platform may follow the modality of PTC and TC in the common ocean-basins.
Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation Mechanisms for MHEWS - ESCAP
Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation Mechanisms for MHEWS IN-MHEWS Network of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems in Asia and the Pacific ESCAP PTC and TC, Drought Monitoring Mechanism, Transboundary floods early warning,... UNDP Climate and Disaster Resilience UNEP ECO-DRR WFP/ OCHA VAM RIMES, Others
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