Convocatoria ONU: Estrategia Internacional para Reducción de Desastres
Call for Abstracts for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
HFA Thematic Reviews
Introduction
The Global Assessment Report (GAR) is a major initiative of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). It contributes to the achievement of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) through monitoring risk patterns and trends and progress in disaster risk reduction and through providing guidance, to governments and non-governmental actors alike, on why and how they can, together, reduce disaster risks.
The GAR15 will be published prior to the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015, in which governments will adopt a successor of the HFA. Coming at the end of the ten year cycle of the HFA, GAR15 will: explore the landscape of global disaster risk at the end of the HFA; will analyze how much the HFA has contributed to reducing disaster risk; and will identify risk reduction challenges which have still to be resolved. GAR15 will therefore provide an evidence base to support the design of the successor arrangement of the HFA. To achieve this purpose GAR15 will be structured around four parts:
- The global disaster risk landscape
- The Impact of the HFA: fit-for-purpose, achievements and gaps
- The disaster risk reduction policy landscape and
- Critical policy challenges in disaster risk reduction
The Call
The purpose of this call for abstracts is to encourage more research investigating the degree to which the HFA has been fit-for-purpose in affecting change in the management of disaster risk, and in so doing, contribute to both the formulation of the successor framework to the HFA (the HFA2), as well as the development of indicators for effectively measuring the impact of the forthcoming framework.
To date, research has principally been limited to an analysis of progress in implementing the HFA, based on a factual appraisal of the feedback provided by government and inter-governmental review, as well as major stakeholder groups, against the 22 core indicators of the Priorities for Action of the HFA.
These indicators have thus far encouraged the measurement of inputs as opposed to outputs and impact. The Call therefore seeks to encourage research that: examines and provides evidence of change since 2005 through the lens of the 22 core indicators; and investigates the extent to which such change can be attributable to the components of the HFA, or other emerging issues.
UNISDR therefore seeks input papers to the 2015 Global Assessment Report (GAR15) that present research, oriented by indicator, addressing the following issues:
? what changes have been observed since the adoption of the HFA in 2005, and what has been the impact in terms of risk to society;
? to what degree has change been facilitated by the HFA or other emerging drivers of effective disaster risk management;
? determine if the change was adequately captured by the indicator in its current form and if not propose an alternative impact indicator;
? what elements will need to be developed for inclusion in the successor framework to the HFA.
More information to guide research on specific indicators is provided in the guidance document for the HFA thematic reviews.
Submission process
One call for abstracts is issued for each of the 22 core indicators of the Priorities for Action of the HFA, by the UNISDR.
The calls for abstracts will be published through existing networks / list servers of PreventionWeb. Coordinating organisations (CO), coordinating lead authors (CLA) and contributing organisations are invited to disseminate the calls widely to potential authors, institutions and through respective networks. Calls will be issued in two phases:
By 05 August 2013:
Thematic Research Area 1: Institutional and legal frameworks, centralized and decentralized responsibilities and resources, capacities and coordinating capabilities (PFA1 – Core Indicators 1 to 4, and PFA5 – Core Indicator 1)
Thematic Research Area 2: Culture of resilience, rural and urban risk awareness, accessible information available to all stakeholders (PFA3 – Core Indicators 1 and PFA3 – Core Indicator 4)
Thematic Research Area 3: Trans-boundary, national, sectoral and local multi-hazard risk assessments, cost/benefit analysis, hazard and vulnerability surveillance and dissemination (PFA2 – Core Indicators 1,2 and 4, and PFA3 – Core Indicator 3)
Thematic Research Area 4: All-hazard early warning systems (PFA2 – Core Indicator 3)
Thematic Research Area 6: Risk sensitive environment-related policies, regulations and plans (PFA4 – Core Indicator 1)
Thematic Research Area 7: Social development policies and plans for disaster risk reduction (PFA4 – Core Indicator 2)
Thematic Research Area 9: Risk-sensitive planning, management & construction of human settlements (PFA4 – Core Indicator 4)
Thematic Research Area 10: Disaster risk impact assessment, and risk-sensitive design, in development investments (PFA4 – Core Indicator 6)
Thematic Research Area 11: Risk-sensitive disaster recovery and rehabilitation
(PFA4 – Core Indicator 5)
Thematic Research Area 12: Financial reserves and contingency mechanisms for effective response and recovery
(PFA5 – Core Indicator 3)
Thematic Research Area 13: Multi-level preparedness, contingency and response mechanisms, information exchange and review capabilities (PFA5 – Core Indicator 4)
Thematic Research Area 15: Standards and normative mechanisms for disaster risk management (emerging area)
By 15 September 2013:
Thematic Research Area 5: DRR education and training, including materials (PFA3 – Core Indicator 2)
Thematic Research Area 8: Risk-sensitive economic and productive sectoral policies and plans (PFA4 – Core Indicator 3)
Thematic Research Area 13: Multi-level preparedness, contingency and response mechanisms, information exchange and review capabilities (PFA5 – Core Indicator 2)
Thematic Research Area 14: Private investment in disaster risk management (emerging area)
Thematic Research Area 16: Inter-connected, inter-dependent risk (emerging area)
? The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 month after the date of the Call.
? Abstracts should be 300 words or less.
? Abstracts are to be submitted to gar15_HFA@un.org using the template for submission available at http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/networks/private/hfa-thematic-review/index.php
? After review of the abstracts by UNISDR, the Coordinating Organisation and the Coordinating Lead Author, UNISDR will invite successful applicants to develop full GAR15 input papers, for submission by 31 December 2013.
? Input papers will be used by the Coordinating Lead Author to develop GAR15 Background Papers, which will be subjected to both an informal peer review, as well as an external peer review.
? All input papers will be made available online as an annex to GAR15.
? In addition, UNISDR will coordinate the submission of all final papers to an academic journal for consideration in a special issue focusing on the state of disaster risk management.
? For more information contact: Rhea Katsanakis (katsanakis@un.org), UNISDR