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Global Risk Identification Program. WMO 15 th Congress Side event on strengthening national and regional partnerships on disaster risk reduction. Strategic Alignment. Identification of high risk areas and risk factors that cause disasters (foreseeable risk)
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Global Risk Identification Program WMO 15th Congress Side event on strengthening national and regional partnerships on disaster risk reduction
Strategic Alignment • Identification of high risk areas and risk factors that cause disasters (foreseeable risk) • Hyogo Framework for Action Priority 2 • Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks • UNDP/BCPR Strategy for Disaster Prevention • common understanding of crises established • joint stakeholder risk assessment conducted
Strategic Alignment • Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction • service line 1: analytical and advisory services • risk identification • service line 2: institutional capacity building • national risk and loss information & applications • service line 3: training and capacity building • IABD Disaster Prevention Sector Facility • risk identification and forecasting to understand and quantify vulnerability and disaster risk
Core Risk Identification Support • GRIP Goal: • reduced natural hazard-related losses in high risk areas to promote sustainable development • GRIP Objectives: • improved evidence base for disaster risk management • increased adoption of disaster risk management
Key WMO/NMHS contributions • Drought and flood hazard: • Methodologies and tools for hazard analysis and mapping as an input to risk assessment • Improvement of national to global drought and flood databases • Guidelines for standardizing hazard typologies in disaster socio-economic losses databases • National risk assessment capacity development projects in priority high-risk countries • Flood and drought hazard analysis and mapping as an input to risk assessments • Hazard characterization for loss databases