Managing risk and addressing disaster displacement: Challenges, effective practices and solutions in Asia
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Disaster displacement is a salient issue for Asia and the Pacific. Between 2008 and 20019, more than 80 percent of documented disaster displacement occurred across the region. It is under this context that a regional consultation will hold on November 19 to gather perspectives from across Asia on disaster-induced displacement that will serve as inputs to the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement. The exchange is designed to provide a platform for governmental representatives or officials to share best practices, discuss challenges and gaps, and identify opportunities for strengthened action on internal displacement in Asia.
The consultation, moderated by Cecilia Jimenez, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs, will open with remarks from Dr Sima Samar, Special Envoy of the Afghanistan President and member of the High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement and Professor Walter Kaelin, Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and HLP Expert Advisor. This will be followed by presentations and discussions with targeted government representatives from Mongolia, the Philippines and Bangladesh, focusing on the below experiences:
- Mongolia: understanding risk, predictions and investments in risk reduction (e.g. forecast based financing, and other mechanisms) that may be applicable in other contexts
- Philippines: systems, coordination and processes required to achieve capacity to manage recurrent, multiple and large scale displacements, with limited international support; process for solutions of IDPs and the mechanisms in place to resolve displacement situations
- Bangladesh: displacement management policies and mechanisms for resolving displacement, and how ministries and sectors combine to achieve success
Speakers (from left to right):
- Nenette Motus, IOM Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific
- Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons
- Sima Samar, Member of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement
- Walter Kaelin, Envoy of the Chair of Platform of Disaster Displacement (PDD) and Expert Advisor to High Level Panel on Internal Displacement
- Sayanaa Lkhagvasuren, Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister, Mongolia
- Cliff Cyril Y. Riveral, Director of Disaster Response, Management Bureau, Philippines
- Md Mohsin, Secretary at Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, Bangladesh
- Suprayoga Hadi, Primary Planner at National Development Planning Agency, Indonesia
- Major General Sudantha Ranasighe, Director General of Disaster Management Centre, Sri Lanka
- Mohammad Qaseem Haidari, Deputy Minister for Policy, Coordination, and Planning, Afghanistan
- Ms. Loretta Hieber-Girardet, Chief, Supporting and Monitoring Sendai Framework Implementation Branch, UNDRR.
