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NEW DELHI: India has significantly increased funding for disaster risk reduction (DRR) — $6 billion towards mitigation for a five-year period (2021-2025) and $23 billion meant for preparedness, response and recovery, it told the member countries of the United Nations during a review meeting of the Sendai Framework at UN General Assembly in New York on Friday.
At the Plenary, prime minister’s principal secretary PK Mishra said India has brought landmark changes in its financing architecture to support the entire spectrum of DRR needs, which includes disaster risk mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery and reconstruction.
“In just over a decade, we have been able to reduce the loss of lives from cyclones to less than 2%. We are now developing ambitious mitigation programmes to reduce the risk of losses from all hazards – landslides, glacial lake outburst, earthquakes, forest fire, heat waves and lightning,” Mishra said at midterm review of the Sendai Framework (2015-2030).
He reminded the member countries of India’s first response service across continents, how it recently sent its National Disaster Response Force to Turkey and Syria during recent earthquakes, dispatching field hospitals and search and rescue teams as well as medical relief material.
“Under India’s presidency, G20 members have agreed to establish a Working Group on DRR. The five priorities identified by the G20 Working Group – early warning for all, resilient infrastructure, improved financing of DRR, systems and capacities for response and ‘build back better’, and ecosystem-based approaches to DRR – will provide added impetus to the achievement of Sendai targets globally,” he said.
Mishra said the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, presently co-led by India and the United States, is bringing about transformation in the way we plan, design, build and maintain infrastructure systems in the 21st century. “Infrastructure projects are long-term investments. If informed by solid risk assessments, and underpinned by good risk governance, these infrastructure investments can build long-term resilience,” he added.
At the Plenary, prime minister’s principal secretary PK Mishra said India has brought landmark changes in its financing architecture to support the entire spectrum of DRR needs, which includes disaster risk mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery and reconstruction.
“In just over a decade, we have been able to reduce the loss of lives from cyclones to less than 2%. We are now developing ambitious mitigation programmes to reduce the risk of losses from all hazards – landslides, glacial lake outburst, earthquakes, forest fire, heat waves and lightning,” Mishra said at midterm review of the Sendai Framework (2015-2030).
He reminded the member countries of India’s first response service across continents, how it recently sent its National Disaster Response Force to Turkey and Syria during recent earthquakes, dispatching field hospitals and search and rescue teams as well as medical relief material.
“Under India’s presidency, G20 members have agreed to establish a Working Group on DRR. The five priorities identified by the G20 Working Group – early warning for all, resilient infrastructure, improved financing of DRR, systems and capacities for response and ‘build back better’, and ecosystem-based approaches to DRR – will provide added impetus to the achievement of Sendai targets globally,” he said.
Mishra said the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, presently co-led by India and the United States, is bringing about transformation in the way we plan, design, build and maintain infrastructure systems in the 21st century. “Infrastructure projects are long-term investments. If informed by solid risk assessments, and underpinned by good risk governance, these infrastructure investments can build long-term resilience,” he added.
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