Reducing risk is fundamental to reducing humanitarian needs and achieving sustainable development. A key objective is to ensure that all humanitarian and development action is risk-informed, and that humanitarian response to crises enables communities to increase their capacity to deal with future shocks and stresses. For this, a shift is required from reactive and repetitive crisis response to more forward-looking and anticipatory risk management which integrates the disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate security agendas with the humanitarian, development and peace nexus. 

The discussion will offer a space for experiences from the field to be presented and showcased as practical examples of the triple nexus in action from a wide range of regions, but also from the perspective of different thematic areas of focus, such as disaster preparedness, anticipatory action, biodiversity protection and climate security.

Organisers:

UNDRR; UNDP; UNEP; MFA Czech Republic; CARE Czech Republic and Asia; OSCE

Speakers:

• Ansherina Grace Talavera, Program Manager for ECHO Actions, CARE Philippines.
• Ronald Jackson, Heads the Disaster Risk Reduction & Recovery Team (DRT) for Building Resilience in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Disaster Risk Reduction & Recovery Team (DRT) for Building Resilience in the United Development Programme (UNDP) in Geneva, Switzerland.
• Andrew Bower, Team Leader Risk Governance, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – UNDRR – Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia.
• Cecilia Aipira, Chief Disasters and Conflicts Branch, the United Nations Environment Programme