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Third Asian Ministerial Conference

on Disaster Risk Reduction

Summary compilation of material presented at the

Third Asian Ministerial on Disaster Risk Reduction

2-4 December 2008

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2-4 December 2008 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


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The purpose of this document is to provide a concise and user-friendly

summary of information from presentations made at the Third Asian

Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, December 1-4, 2008 in

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It represents the summarization of over 130

presentations on various areas of disaster risk reduction which can be found

in original form at http://www.amcdrrmalaysia.com.my/

In developing this project, UNISDR acknowledges the support received by

the German Federal Foreign Office as well as the Government of Malaysia in

the organization of the conference.

The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed here are those of the

authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) or conference

organizers. UNISDR cannot guarantee the accuracy of the data included in

this publication, and accepts no responsibility for any consequence of its use.
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Climate Change and Disaster RiskReduction

Part 2: Public Private Partnerships

Part 3: Urban Disaster Risk Reduction

Part 4: Community Disaster Risk Reduction

Part 5: Information CommunicationTechnology

Part 6: Early Warning

Part 7: Space Tools

Part 8: Safe Hospitals

Part 9: Education and Disaster Risk

Reduction Part 10: Indigenous Knowledge

Part 11: Implementing HFA

Part 12: Mainstreaming Disaster RiskReduction

Part 13: Regional and Country Profiles


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Overview:

Disaster Risk Reduction

Contents

Overview: Disaster risk reduction

Disaster frequency

Disaster frequency by type and region

Disaster risk reduction components

Shift to DRR Damage assessment process

Remote sensing

Disaster risk reduction and poverty


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Disaster frequency

Source: Cosmas L. Zavazava, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on The Role of ICTS in Disaster Managementincluding Disaster Risk Reduction.

DISASTER STATISTICS


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Disaster frequency by type and region

Source: Rakhi Bhavnani, December 08, Side Session on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction.

DISASTER STATISTICS


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Disaster Risk Reduction ComponentsDRR CONCEPTS

Building culture of

prevention is not easy,

while the cost of

prevention had to be

paid in the present, its

benefit lie in the

distant future.Moreover, the benefit

are not tangible; they

are disasters that did

not happen- Kofi Anan, Former UN

Secretary General



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Shift to DRR

Source: Dhar Chakrabarti, 2 December 08, Special Session 1 on Accelerating Progress in Implementing HFA in Asiaand the Pacific

DRR CONCEPTS


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Damage Assessment Process

Source: Joey Sarte Salceda, 3 December 08, Technical Session 4 on Resource Mobilization for Disaster Risk Reduction

DRR CONCEPTS


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Disaster preparedness

Source: Cosmas L. Zavazava, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on The Role of ICTS in Disaster Managementincluding Disaster Risk Reduction

DRR CONCEPTS


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Remote Sensing


Remote sensing (passive and active sensing) critical in earth observation of weather satellite

collection platforms critical for monitoring, prediction and detection

DRR CONCEPTS


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Disaster Risk Reduction and Poverty

Source: Saidur Rehman, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Private Sectors engagement in DRR in Malaysia.

Vicious cycle of disaster and poverty

DRR CONCEPTS


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There are indications of close linkages

between poverty and vulnerability tonatural disasters and of their mutually re-enforcing effects. The poorer communitiestend to be the most vulnerable. Data showthat at the household level, poverty is thesingle most important factor determiningvulnerability.

DRR CONCEPTS Disaster Risk Reduction and Poverty


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Part 1: Climate Change and


Salient global statistics

Salient statistics in East Asia

Impacts in coastal areas of Asian countries

Potential climate change impact Natural disaster and climate change linkages

Case for climate change mitigation

Managing climate risk framework

The UN Convention on Climate Change

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Knowledge gaps

Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer

Issues in CCA and DRR

Contents


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Part 1: Climate Change and


Climate Change Adaptation Climate change adaptation and ICT

Climate Change and Health

Fire and Rescue Perspectives

Case Study: Northumbria Infectious Disease

Risk Management Case Study: Climate Disaster ResilienceInitiative (CDRI)

Case Study: Cholera in Mozambique

Case Study: Malaria in Ghana

Case Study: Korea

Case Study: Red Cross/Red Crescent


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Salient Global Statistics

Relative changes in precipitation (in percent) for the period20902099, relative to 19801999 (IPCC 2007)

Mean temperature increases by the end of this century of upto 4 percent centigrade and sea levels rising by up to 60centimeters

The 10 warmest years on record have all been since 1990

Over the last century, average global temperatures have risenby 0.6 degrees Celsius being the most drastic temperature risesover 1000 years in the northern hemisphere

Glaciers are melting and Sea levels are rising and forecast to

rise another 88 cm by 2100 Globally sea level rise threatens 100 million people living below

this level

Number of people affected by floods worldwide has risen from7 million in the 1960s to 150 million today

Salient statistics

Source: Various presentations


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CLIMATEChCHANGE

Source: Andrew Collins, Pre-Conference Event on Climate Change, Disaster Risk Governance and Emergency

Management.

Projected surface temperature changes for the early and late 21st century relative to the period1980-1999

Salient Global Statistics


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Source: G. Srinivasan, 4 December 08, Side Session Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

Updated 100-year linear trend of 0.74 C for 1906-2005


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Source: Rakhi Bhavnani, December 08, Side Session Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

Global climate change from man-made activities

Undeniable evidence that global climate is changing This change is human-induced


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Change in climate variation: generallythe emphasis until now has been on

changes in the mean climate. We needto understand the impacts of changes

in climate variability at a range ofscales: decadal, inter-

annual, seasonal, daily, and taking intoaccount large-scale atmospheric

regimes

Attribution of a single eventto global warming istherefore difficult


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Frequency of occurrence of cold or warm temperatures for 202 global stations for3 time periods:

1901 to 1950 (black), 1951 to 1978 (blue) and 1979 to 2003 (red)

Warm nights increasing; cold nights decreasing


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Proportion of heavy rainfalls: increasing in most land areas

Regions of disproportionate changes in heavy (95th) and very heavy (99th) precipitation


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Small changes in temperature, increase in disaster risks


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Salient Statistics in East Asia

Source: Trevor Tague, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Climate Change, Disaster Risk Governance andEmergency Management.

Changes in number of heavy rainfall days and hot days over locations in the East Asian Region


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Changes in the Frequency Distribution of Extremes


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Projections of Regional Tmax and Daily Rainfall Changes


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Impacts in coastal areas of Asian countries



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CLIMATEChCHANGE

Source: Cosmas L. Zavazava, 3 December 08, Technical Session 2 on Hi-tech & Scientific Application to DisasterRisk Reduction

Potential Climate Change Impact


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CLIMATEChCHANGE


Potential Climate Change Impact


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Impacts of climate change and disasters


The increase in GHG concentration and atmospheric warming impacts sea level, temperature, precipitation, andextreme events

This negatively affects sectors and quality of living in cities


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Natural disasters and climate change

linkages



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CLIMATEChCHANGE Natural disasters and climate change

linkages

Source: Rebecca McNaught, 4 December 08, Side Session Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Case for climate change mitigation


Reducing the production of GHGs, i.e. mitigation climate change impacts, wouldnot only be cheaper in the long-run however, also lead to a reduction in

temperatures


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CLIMATEChCHANGE

Source: Masud Siddiqui, Technical Session 3 on Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Involvement &Empowerment of Local Governments and Non-governmental Organizations.

Managing Climate Risk Framework


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CLIMATEChCHANGE

Source: Yap Kok Seng, 3 December 08, Technical Session 2 on Hi-tech & Scientific Application to Disaster RiskReduction

The UN Convention on Climate Change

COP

Conference of theParties

SBI Subsidiary Bodyfor Implementation

SBSTA SubsidiaryBody for Scientific andTechnological Advice

IPCC

IPCC

Secretariat


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CLIMATEChCHANGE

Source: Yap Kok Seng, 3 December 08, Technical Session 2 on Hi-tech & Scientific Application to Disaster RiskReduction

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

(IPCC)

Plenary

Working group I

The science ofclimate system

Technical supportunit

Working group IIImpact andadaptation


Working group IIIMitigation


Task force onnational greenhouse

gas inventories


UNFCC SecretariatWMO/UNEP in

Switzerland

Experts, authors, contributors, reviewers


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Knowledge gaps in the areas of climate

change and disaster risk reduction


Cli R ili Ci i A P i


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Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on

Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters


Report by World Bank and UNISDR(2008)

Focus on climate change adaptation &disaster risk reduction in East Asia

region Moving from theory to practice

Tool for city level managers to developa strategy for adaptation and mitigation

For both cities in beginning andadvanced stages in dealing with climate

change and disaster risks Presents a hotspot tool for

identifying city-specific priorities foraction

Presents no regrets endeavors

Overview

Cli t R ili t Citi A P i


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Hotspot Exercise

The heart of decision-making

Given:

Geographical location

City size and growth rate

Governance structure

Disaster history

Influentiable

-City management

Financial resources

Built environment

Disaster response systems

Cli t R ili t Citi A P i


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Hotspot assessment excerpt


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Issues in CCA and DRR


Case evidence is strong enoughfor action:

Asian urban growth Local decentralization

Capacity gaps in cities

Financial pressures

Vulnerabilities

Climate change adaptation and

disaster risk reduction maincrux now for the development

of Asian cities

Key is the local level to buildresilient cities

CCA and DRR are complexproblems involving all sectors -

require innovation andingenuitytakes time and need

to start now

Paradigm shift takes time andneeds to start now

Cities need to know how muchthey are really affected by

climate change and intellectualcapital to deal with these

complex problems


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Issues in CCA and DRR


Once we know, what do we

do? -Prioritize actions -thereare both urgent and

important areas that need tobe looked at-

No regret interventions -recognizing opportunity

costs associated withinterventions

Leveraging experiences ofothers but not following aone size fits all approach

Need to go beyond tokenand pilot projects -taking

good projects andreplicating & scaling

Need to consciously gobeyond the same theoretical

areas to most challengingareas in climate change

adaptation and disaster riskreduction

Kalamazoo! Stating hardtruths as they are!

Need for

monitoring andevaluating of

progress and gaps

Need to factorpositive feedback

effects in thesystem

Remember howlong the

environmentalmovement took!!


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CLIMATEChCHANGE

Adjustment in natural or human systems in response toactual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which

moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.Various types of adaptation can be distinguished, includinganticipatory and reactive adaptation, private and public

adaptation, and autonomous and planned adaptation(IPCC TAR, 2001)

Adaptation

Ability of a system to adjust itself in order to cope withclimate change variability

Adaptation capacity

Since the inception of UNFCC, adaptation has been poor. At the Climate ChangeConference in Bali, it was realized that all countries would need to adapt.


Climate Change Adaptation

Definitions


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The ability to adapt to climate change through appropriatejudgment and strategies

Flexibility

Taking on board climate change issues when designing nationalpolicies, programmes and priorities (to include climate relatedrisk, vulnerability and options for adaptation in the ICT sector)

Mainstreaming

Degree to which an area is susceptible to harm due to exposureto such as climate change

Vulnerability


Climate Change Adaptation

Definitions


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Climate Change Adaptation

Engage stakeholders

Identify and set priorities for action

Assign responsibility for action and monitor implementation

Keep adaptation strategies under regular review

Effective approaches for adaptation

Under-adaptation: climate change factors are given insufficient weight

Over-adaptation: climate change factors are given too much weight

Mal-adaptation: decisions are taken resulting in more vulnerability toclimate change

Key issues

Adaptation = flexibility


Effective approaches for adaptation


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Climate Change Adaptation

Vulnerability Adaptation Development

Impacts to and to Resilience

Adaptation Development Resilience

Identifying the

poor

Explaining pre-

poor livelihood

insurance

strategies

Giving practical

voice

(governance) to

the voiceless

Adaptation that

naturally builds

livelihoods

Livelihoods built

by entitlement

focus

Development

demonstrably

achieved

Development

built on local

copingmechanisms

Coping

mechanisms

safeguarded

Social resilience

Take the Punch

Bounce back

and beyond

Source: Phil OKeefe et al., Pre-Conference Event on Climate Change, Disaster Risk Governance and Emergency

Management.

Adaptation Continuum


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Climate Change Adaptation and ICT



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CLIMATEChCHANGE Climate Change and Health

Source: Andrew Collins, Pre-Conference Event on Climate Change, Disaster Risk Governance and Emergency Management.

IPCC projections and hypothesized impact on health (adapted from IPCC 2007)


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intensifying climatic conditions, together with a rangeof environmental, epidemiological and socioeconomic

factors, are bringing about changes in the exposure of

populations to infectious diseases

-WHO World Health Report 2007



Overview

The under 5 infant mortality rate in Africa islargely attributable to infectious diseases

For Ghana, Mozambique, and Bangladesh,climate change influences, to a highdegree, infectious disease outbreak and itscontrol

The third figure is a simplified infectiousdisease risk assessment

l h d l h


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The health ecology approach to infectious disease risk reduction for health security at the

global, community, and individual levels



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Integrated health risk reduction in contexts of

disease and climate changeRisks get understood through

various research approaches suchas:

Pathogenic

Clinical-epidemiological

Temporal-climatic

Spatial-environmental

Socio-economic

Behavioral

Perceptual

Multivariate and integrative



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CLIMATEChCHANGE

A moving target for reducing climatic health risks:

Pathogenic adaptation inrelation to climate change is

not fully understood and to a

large extent still has to be

regarded as unpredictable. It is

therefore important tofocus research into human

vulnerability, coping and

resilience, where more certain

links to disease risk may be

understood



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CLIMATEChCHANGE Fire and Rescue Perspectives

First responders like police, fire and rescue services, and ambulance are involved inclimate change-related incidents such as fire, search and rescue, and mass

decontamination

Example: how first responders deal with floods:

1) Preparation Phase- Multi-agency collaboration with police,

ambulance, fire- Identify hazard areas

- Produce emergency response plans

- Setup service level agreements

- Identify strategic holding areas

- Purchase food defense equipment

- Rescuer training

2) Rescuer Training- Two kinds of training:

- i. First responder basic water access skills

- ii. Swift water rescue technician advanced

rescue skills

3) Response Phase- Flood watch/flood warning - act on information

and deploy people- Rescue of vulnerable people

- Swift water rescues i.e. cars, rivers, roofs

- Command and control - logistics, crew changes

accommodation

4) Recovery Phase- Transport (boats, sleds, inspections)

- Utility services (gas, electric, water, communications)

- Water removal (HVP, peristaltic pumps, water vacuums)

- Home risk assessment (safety advice)

Source: Trevor Tague, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Climate Change, Disaster Risk Governance andEmergency Management.

CLIMATEC

C G C St d N th b i I f ti


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CLIMATEChCHANGE Case Study: Northumbria Infectious

Disease Risk Management Program


In terms of climate changelinkages, the rationale is

identifying the contexts

whereby different aspects of

health are prone to change to

decide how much climate

change may be tolerable or

acceptable, what type of

adaptation is necessary, and

who, how, when and where the

costs might be borne

Infectious Disease Risk Management (IDRM) atNorthumbria University, Disaster and DevelopmentCentre (DDC)

Aim of the program is to reduce disaster through riskreduction and health security

Program overview

2002-05: In Mozambique and Bangladesh sponsoredby DFID, WHO, UNICEF, Governments of Mozambiqueand Bangladesh, ICDDR

2007-10: Mozambique and Bangladesh sponsored byBritish Council

2007-09: Health Security and Disaster Resilience inBangladesh (ESRC, DFID)

History of activities

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Case Study: Northumbria Infectious

Disease Risk Management Program

Integrated (Community) Disease Risk Reduction (IDRR) Methodology

Reduce uncertainty throughcomprehensive disease riskassessments

Participation, appropriate frameworks,monitoring, evaluation of relative causality

To know who, when, where, and thecircumstances of changes in hazards,vulnerability and capacity

Empirical verification of disease hazard

Community engagement

Empower people

Sensitize institutions Delineate responsibilities of the state Legislate rights of individuals, and

responsibilities of informal and privatesectors

Through thefollowingmechanisms:

Locally-owned research Capacity building Systems development Disease risk

assessment in thecommunity

Using local committees

C St d Cli t Di t R iliCLIMATEC

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Case Study: Climate Disaster Resilience

Initiative (CDRI)

Source: Rajib Shaw, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Asian Urban Task Force (UTF).

CLIMATEChCHANGE

Goals

To measure the level of climate disaster resilience of urban poor communities

To develop a yardstick i.e., Climate Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) to measurethe level of climate disaster resilience the methodological approach to do that

To map the communities position in the level of climate disaster resilience

To help policy formulation by the development organizations and take

necessary action to enhance climate disaster resilience of communities

Case Study: Climate Disaster ResilienceCLIMATEC

CHANGE


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Case Study: Climate Disaster Resilience

Initiative (CDRI)

Source: Rajib Shaw, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Asian Urban Task Force (UTF).

Expected outputs

Methodology of CDRI development

CDRI to measure citys climate disaster resilience

Climate Disaster Resilience Map for each city

Policy tools for Government and development organizations, to prioritizethe sectors in vulnerable communities

Strength and weakness of different sectors of each dimension of CDRI(physical/social/economic/institutional/Natural) of a city

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Case Study: Cholera in Mozambique

Case of cholera inMozambique

Population of 18.5 million;capital 0.5 million

Vulnerable to diarrheal diseases

High incidence of absolutepoverty

Low elevation, estuarine

Highhumidity, temperature, seasonal rainfall

Concentrations of populationsnear aquatic environments

Adaptive Vibrio cholerae 01serotypes Ogawa and Inaba

There is high correlation between the variationin cholera cases in Beira, Mozambique comparedto rainfall, temperature and humidity from 1999-2003

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Distribution of number of malaria cases and

rainfall amount in Ashanti, Ghana

Distribution of number of malaria cases and

mean air temperature in Ashanti, Ghana

Case Study: Malaria in Ghana

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CLIMATEChCHANGE Case Study: Korea

Source: Yeon-Soo Park, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Climate Change, Disaster Risk Governance andEmergency Management.

Average temperature has increased 1.5degrees Celsius in Korea

By the end of the 21st century, it isexpected that temperatures will increaseby 4 degrees Celsius and rainfall by 20

percent Economic costs of climate change have

generally increased in Korea:

1960s - US$100 million

1990s US$600 million

2000+ already US$2.7 billion

Examples: Typhoon Rusa, 2002 US$5.1 billion

Typhoon Maemi, 2003 US$4.2 billion

Statistics

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CLIMATEChCHANGE

Source: Yeon-Soo Park, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Climate

Change, Disaster Risk Governance and Emergency Management.

Case Study: Korea

Hourly precipitation has changed from anaverage of 94.6mm/hour from 1998 to2000 to 97.4mm/hour from 2000-2008

Daily precipitation has also changed from

355.8mm/day to 415.2mm/day in thesame period

Sea level has also increased by 37 percentcompared with1990 levels

In addition, raised sea level temperaturehas increased by 50 percent comparedwith 1990 levels

Statistics

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The Government of Korea is taking the threat of climate change as an opportunity to develop

new initiatives: Promoting and fostering green industries

Climate Change Task Force under the Office of the Prime Minister Disaster managers participating in adaptation area


Establishment of riskprediction systems

Establishing a national standardclimate change scenario

Setting up a natural hazard anddisaster prediction system

Vulnerability system for floods

Linking land developmentplans

Regional flood safety systemthrough levees

Relocation from flood planes

Establishing nature-

friendly disaster preventioninitiatives

Examples include nature-friendlywater cycle systems, runoffreduction systems, strengtheningof land constitution

Setting design codes for

prevention facilities Changing the design code that is

based on historical events toimproving the design code forfuture extreme events

P

rogramsforDR

R

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Development of disaster and safety

technologies using IT interventions Development of a National Disaster

Management System (NDMS) Cell Broadcast Service (CBS) for Disaster

Information Automated rainfall warning system and

disaster damage survey system and needsanalysis

Promoting a natural disaster

insurance program Managed by NEMA and operated by private

insurance companies

Strengthening emergency rescueand relief systems

Preparing for disaster rescue and response

Strengthening climate changeadaptation including health

ProgramsforDRR

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CLIMATEChCHANGE Case Study: Red Cross/Red Crescent

Assessing and addressing current and future climate risks at national levels

Assessing and addressing current and future climate risks at communitylevel

Education and awareness raising

Non-traditional partnerships and networks

Advocacy Integrating climate change into existing training, plans and strategies

Lessons learned

Dont currently match the scale of the problem

Growing risks need growing efforts and funding Polluter pays principle

Funding should be additional to existing ODA

Funding mechanisms need to take into account changing climate risk

Funding mechanisms

Source: Rebecca McNaught, 4 December 08, Side Session Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction


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for Disaster Risk Reduction

Contents Overview Catastrophe risk insurance

Statistics: Catastrophe Risk Markets in Asia

Challenges of insuring catastrophic risks in Asia Government Instruments to Finance NaturalDisasters

Catastrophe Risk Insurance Needs in Asia

Role of Government vs. Private Sector

Pre-requisites

Attributes

Benefits

Data requirements for insurance companies


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for Disaster Risk Reduction

Data requirements for insurance companies

Increasing Catastrophe insurance penetration

Asian Regional Catastrophe Pool

Conclusions

Case study: Swiss Re Case study: Taiwan Residential Earthquake Insurance

Pool

Case study: Mexican catastrophe risk financing

Case study: Catastrophic insurance in Japan

Case study: Turkey Earthquake Pool Case study: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance

Facility

Case study: Earthquake coverage for Guatemala andEl Salvador Business Continuity Planning

Case Study: Business Continuity Management inMalaysia

Case Study: Nestle Malaysia

Case Study: UEM Group and Mercy Malaysia

Case Study: Anti-Disaster Glass Promotion in Japan

Case Study: Petronas Corporate Social Responsibility

Overview: Public Private Partnerships (PPP)PPP forC DRR


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Overview: Public Private Partnerships (PPP)

Source: Various presentations, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Private Sectors engagement in DRR in Malaysia.

PPP for hDRR

There are variations in the phrase representing public private partnerships:

Public-Private Partnership (3Ps)

Public-Private and People Partnership (4Ps)

People-lead and People-oriented Public Private Partnership (5P)

Private institutions

Business Corporations

Corporate social responsibility Public relations

Business opportunities

NGOs

Mandated

Funded

Academic, religious, and civil societyinstitutions

Public Sector institutions

Central, provincial, and local

governments and governmentowned, managed, supported entities

They are mandated by theconstitution to be involved in DRR

Multilateral and bilateral developmentpartners

United Nations Organizations

World Bank Asian Development Bank

Regional institutions (ASEAN, SAARC)

Bilateral and multilateraldevelopment partners

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Source: Neil Mathison, 3 December 08, Technical Session 1 on Public-Private Partnerships in Disaster Risk Financing.

PPP for hDRR

Low catastrophe insurance penetration in Asia

PPP forChDRR Statistics: Catastrophe Risk Markets in Asia


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PPP for hDRR

Consequences of low insurance penetration


PPP forChDRR Statistics: Catastrophe Risk Markets in Asia


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PPP for hDRR

Heavy burden of natural disaster loss as a percentage of GDP and Government Revenue


PPP forChDRR

Challenges of insuring catastrophic risks


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PPP for hDRR

Conventional commercial insurancemarket financing for catastropherisks is ineffective in Asia:

Lack of risk awareness for Individuals,Corporations, Regulators

Lack of spread and critical mass to makeinsurance affordable vicious cycle

Anti-selection

High Concentration of Cat Exposures in Mega Cities

in Asia


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PPP forChDRR

Challenges of insuring catastrophic risks


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PPP for hDRR

Little incentive for commercialinsurance markets to promotecatastrophe insurance:

The challenge of modeling and pricing risk

High levels of capital required to retain the risk

Heavy reliance on reinsurance with volatile pricing

Uncertainty in the remote risk Accounting and tax rules discourage the build up

of cat reserves

Slim margins and low ROE

Commercial Insurers Reluctant to Cover Earthquake in China

in Asia

PPP forChDRR Government Instruments to Finance


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Source: Andreas Bollmann, 3 December 08, Technical Session 1 on Public-Private Partnerships in Disaster Risk Financing.

PPP for hDRRNatural Disasters

Catastrophe Risk Insurance Needs in AsiaPPP forChDRR


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PPP for hDRR

Recommendation tostrengthen financialmechanism for disaster

reduction: Delhi Declaration(2007)

On the 7th and 8th November2007, New Delhi hosted theSecond Asian Ministerial

Conference on Disaster RiskReduction

As a result of theconference, the DelhiDeclaration 2007 was

adopted, among other pointsurging,

the national governments tostrengthen financial mechanisms for

disaster reduction, including risk

transfer and risk finance including

innovative approaches in

microfinance, micro insurance

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PPP for hDRR

To absorb large natural catastrophic events, risks need to be shared

between individuals, corporations, the domestic insurance andglobal reinsurance industry, and capital markets

Absent is an efficient re/insurance market (i.e. in developing andemerging countries) and governments play a more active role asrisk taker

We need to find new forms of public-private partnerships to tackleclimate-related and natural catastrophe risks

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Role of private insurance

For many disaster types, private insuranceprovides an efficient tool to cover financiallosses

Reasons for insurance pools are manifold.Pools are neither good nor bad per se andmust be evaluated case by case

The primary role of insurance in disasterprevention is to ensure risk-adjustedpricing, as this provides an incentive forpreventive measures

State, NGO and charity organizations maycompensate victims for non-insurablelosses, but should not do so for insurablerisks which are deliberately not insured

Role of government

The primary role of governments is to set aregulatory framework which allows foreffective private risk transfer

Government interventions can lead tounexpected effects and may trigger furtherinterventions instead of addressing the

root causes In specific cases, government

interventions can supplement the privateinsurance industry and expand limits ofinsurability. Market inefficiencies orfailures may require state intervention

In public-private partnershipsgovernments can take different roles:Insurer, reinsurer, rule setter, (re)insurancebuyer, risk aggregator, provider of financialsupport for insurance schemes


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Catastrophe Risk Markets in Asia: AttributesPPP forChDRR


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Key Attributes of Catastrophic Insurance Pools for Residential

Risks

Government Mandate compulsion

Limited cover for an affordable premium

Public Private Partnership

Distribution of policies and claims by the private sector Contribution to risk capital by both private sector as well as

government

Government contingent capital or guarantee for remoterisk-critical subsidy

Initial Administration by private sector Seed capital and technical assistance provided by

development banks

Bespoke Cat Loss and Financial Modelling

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Benefits


Value of Catastrophe Pools

National and regional catastrophe risk pooling schemes provide the platform to meetthe pressing need for wider catastrophic cover in Asia

Pooling risk across a wide area provides better spread and more efficient use of Asiancapital to finance Asian catastrophic risk

Mandatory pools create the spread of risk and critical mass to make catastrophicinsurance affordable and effective

Compulsion a key requirement to overcome lack of risk awareness and anti selection Provide a more efficient platform to transfer catastrophic risk into international markets

(reinsurance or capital markets)

Reduces uncertainty and the need for costly sleep easy cover purchased by individualinsurers

Provides a mechanism to encourage risk mitigation and safer construction practices

Provides the platform to increase risk awareness Public campaigns

Facilitates the build up catastrophic reserves through concessionary accounting and taxrules

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National Catastrophe Pool Conceptual Risk TransferProgramme

Uninsured cat risk already carried by Governments

Insurance pool provides the vehicle to build a fund tofinance the risk

Risk in excess of local fund/market capital transferredto the reinsurance and capital markets

Remote toprisk guaranteed by government throughpost loss funding not economic to reinsure

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Data requirements for insurance companiesHazard Data

Meteorological Data

For tropical storm, Rm,p, Translational Speed

etc Geological Data

Fault, Soil Type etc.

Vulnerability Data

Building Code

Code Itself, HistoricalTransition, Enforcement

System, InspectionSystem etc.

Since most buildings inAsian countries are non-engineered, contractorsquality is a key issue

Vulnerability is unknown

so parametric triggertyped transaction isacceptable for risk taker inspite of basis risk

Calibration

Historical Loss Data

Type ofHazard, Date, Place, Inju

ry, Affected Area etc. Some data available

through Nat Cat EventDatabase, EM-Dat, andGLIDE however, notsufficient to design thefinancial product

Source: Hiroyuki Watabe, 3 December 08, Technical Session 1 on Public-Private Partnerships in Disaster Risk Financing.

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Increasing Catastrophe InsurancePenetration

Enhance Awareness of catastropherisk

Many DRR projects done in the region likecommunity based risk reduction and earlywarning system for safe evacuation

Not much knowledge on risk financing

More opportunities are required for dialogueson risk financing

Sharing good practices

Disseminating knowledge to stakeholdersincluding local insurers

Insurance contracts are normally difficult forpeople with complex policy wording whichdecreases their interest in purchasing theinsurance coverage

On the other hand, parametric trigger typeproducts are very easy to understand for the

client.There is the basis risk problem that is the

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Unbalanced domestic cat risk from Asian insurers transferredinto regional pool written by a dedicated reinsurer (ACP Re)

The diversified and balanced portfolio of cat risk written bythe pool is shared amongst Asian insurers

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Risk needs to be assessed properly with Probabilistic NaturalCatastrophic Risk Analysis model

Insurer and re-insurer want to know the risk more accurately; it isnecessary for their decision making to enter the new market

In case of US, Europe and Japan, the Nat Cat risk is recognized clearly

with probabilistic Nat Cat model On the other hand, for Asian Countries, one cannot obtain and

access basic data to develop the model easily, for example,meteorological data, fault data etc.

The following are some problems:

Lack of Observation (no instruments installed)

Lack of time series data

Lack of uniformity in data

Lack of accessibility to the data (paper based, language problem)

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Vulnerability of many Asian economies to cat risk

pressing need for action

Local insurance markets ineffective and lack the incentives topromote catastrophe insurance

International reinsurance market has the expertise and capacity to

underwrite the cat risk Development banks keen to promote pre event risk financing

schemes to reduce dependency on post loss funding

National and Regional pooling schemes

Make the insurance of cat risk effective and affordable

Provides an efficient platform to access the international catmarket

Commitment and prioritisation can lead to major economic andsocial benefits

Conclusions

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A financial services firm with 144 years of experience

The worlds leading and most diversified reinsurer

A proven expert in risk and capital management

A pioneer and leader in capital market solutions

Swiss Re

Revenues CHF 42.8 billion

Net income CHF 4.2 billion

Total investments: CHF 228 billion

Market cap CHF 29.8 billion

11,000+ employees

90 offices in 25 countries

Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland

Overview


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Contributions in Risk Management

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Insurance Pool (TREIP)


Overview

September 1999 Chi Chi Earthquake

Less than 1 percent of residential houses insured forearthquake

Technical insolvency of 2 provincial banks due to NPL Insurance Law amended to establish legal framework

in July 2001; Commenced operations April 2002

Basic cover of US$ 35,000 (NTD 1.2m) for total lossarising from EQ and associated perils

Affordable fixed premium of US$ 49 (NTD 1,459)

Compulsory extension for homeowners purchasinginsurance policies generally those that are mortgaged

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Case study: Mexican catastrophe

risk financingPPP for

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risk financing

Source: Rubem Hofliger, 3 December 08, Technical Session 1 on Public-Private Partnerships in Disaster Risk Financing.

The FONDEN is a financial tool, whose purpose is to provide resourcesfor the 32 Mexican States and the Federal Agencies (that are in chargedof federal infrastructure) to attend the harm and damages caused by anatural phenomenon

The purpose of FONDEN

In order to attend this new preventive perspective during 2002 and2003, two more funds were created: Fipreden (Preventive Trust Fund)

and Fopreden (Natural Disaster Prevention Fund)

Change from a reactive system to a preventive system

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New challenges and results

FONDENs legal regulation aim to promote a prevention culture,compelling the Federal Agencies and State Governments to keepenough resources in their next budgets and annual programs forthe infrastructure damaged by a disaster

If the infrastructure turns out to be damaged again in the futureby a new natural disaster, FONDEN provides the resources again

The Mexican Federal Government implemented a risk financingstrategy in order to provide emergency relief to populationaffected after a earthquake of severe consequences.

The Mexican Cat-bond, formally is a mixing of parametricinsurance policy and parametric cat-bonds covering earthquakesin specific zones of the Mexican territory

risk financing

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New challenges and results

Besides earthquake risk, the Mexican Government isworking on a structure to include other risks such as:

Parametric insurances against hurricanes

Loss excess insurance to protect the patrimony of theFonden trust

The target of FONDEN is to assign the resources to pay therisks coverage of catastrophic insurances and retain only asmall sum for recurrent less destructive events

In this way, FONDEN has an enormous capacity to confrontcatastrophic events of great magnitude without affectingpublic finances

risk financing

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PPP for earthquake risk reduction started in 1923 after the GreatKanto Earthquake that killed over 140,000 people. Fire following theearthquake killed the most number of people

At that time, the fire following earthquake was exempted by the fireinsurance policy as almost all homes were wooden

Social pressure led to the fire being included in spite of theexemption

The earthquake insurance mechanism was revisited and studied

After Niigata Earthquake in 1964, first Earthquake insurance wasintroduced

Now the loss limit is up to 5,500 Billion Yen covered with

Government and private insurers After Sendai Earthquake in 1978 and Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in

1995, interest in it increased

Reinsurance capacity was sought

Background

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Insurance companies were reluctant to provideearthquake insurance due to the huge uncertainty of thesize of earthquake and frequency

Government of Japan shared the earthquake risk with

private insurance company. That is good example ofPrivate-Public Partnership in Japan

To stabilize the mechanism, reinsurance and CAT-bondare useful tools to diversify the insurance companysretained risk in accordance with re-insurance market

cycle Government support is incentive for the private insurance

companies to provide the Natural Catastrophe Insurance

Background Continued


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Solution features

For earthquakes

Insured assets: Privateresidential dwellings

Significantly increasedpenetration ofearthquake coverage in

Turkey

Limit of policy coverage:TLY 100 000 (USD 69 000approx.), likely to beincreased. Additionalcover can be bought from

private insurers Inception: 2000

Funding: Compulsorypremiums paid byhomeowners

Involved parties

Insurance supplier: TCIP,a legal public entity

Operational manager:Garanti Sigorta

Distributors: 30 localinsurance companies and

their agencies on behalfof TCIP

Reinsurers: Swiss Re andother overseas reinsurers

Natural hazard background

Earthquake: very high (atleast one quake per year)

Tsunami: low tomoderate

Thunderstorms:moderate

Floods: medium to highexposure to flash floods

Case study: Caribbean Catastrophe Risk

Insurance Facility (CCRIF)PPP for

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Insurance Facility (CCRIF)


The CCRIF offers parametrically triggered hurricaneand earthquake insurance policies (akin to businessinterruption insurance) to 16 CARICOM governments

The policies provide immediate liquidity toparticipating governments when affected by eventswith a probability of 1 in 15 years or over

The mechanism will be triggered by the intensity ofthe event (e.g. winds exceeding a certain speed). Thismeans countries will get automaticpayments, without having to wait for an assessmentof the damage

Member governments choose how much coveragethey need up to an aggregate limit of USD100 million

Solution features

Reinsurers: Swiss Re and other overseas reinsurers

Reinsurance program placed by Benfield Ltd.

Involved parties

Caribbean states are highlysusceptible to natural disasters andhave only limited options availableto respond. With small economiesand high debt levels, they oftendepend on donors to finance post-disaster needs, but donor resourcesoften arrive late or not at all

The CCRIF was launched in June

2007 on behalf of the CaribbeanCommunity (CARICOM) heads ofgovernment under the guidance ofthe World Bank with financialsupport from international donors

CCRIF participating governmentsare: Anguilla, Antigua &Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman

Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, StVincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad& Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands

Background

Case study: Earthquake coverage for

Guatemala and El SalvadorPPP for

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Guatemala and El Salvador


Parametric earthquake coverage of USD 25m forGuatemala and El Salvador

This is the first ever securitisation of earthquake risk inCentral America

Innovative trigger mechanisms: Index is based on thepopulation exposed to certain levels of ground-shakingintensity as measured by the Modified Mercalli Intensity

scale This transaction successfully demonstrates that

charitable foundations, governmental relieforganizations and corporations can leverage theirfunding to the benefit of developing nations affected bynatural disasters

Donation to coverage leverage can be as high as 45 times

(USD 1 million of donations can be used for USD 45million in relief)

Other triggers are being developed for a wide variety ofdisasters

Solution features

Such a program will helpthese organizations inbecoming more proactivein planning andanticipating relief needsin areas of the world

affected by severecatastrophes

In case of a triggeringevent, funds will bereadily available for reliefefforts rather than post

event fund raising The transaction was well

received by investors(oversubscribed)

Background

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Holistic management process that identifies potential threats to anorganization and the impacts to business operations that those threats, ifrealized, might cause, and which provides a framework for buildingorganizational resilience with the capability for an effective responsethat safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brandand value-creating activities. (British Standards Institute)

Definition

BS 25999-1:2006: Code of Practice

BS 25999-1:2007: Specification

HB221:2004

BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2007

DRII/BCI Professional Practices for

Business Continuity Practitioner 2004

International standards and guidelines

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The purpose of a BusinessContinuity Plan is to enablean organization to recoveror maintain its activities inthe event of a disruption tonormal business operations

These plans are activated tosupport the criticalactivities required to deliverthe organizations

objectives. They may beinvoked in whole or partand at any stage of theresponse to an incident

Purpose

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Source: Author unknown, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Private Sectors engagement in DRR in Malaysia.

Sample BIA template

1. Assess the impact that would occur overtime if the activity was disrupted

2. Establish the Maximum Tolerable Outage(MTO) of each activity by identifying:

The maximum time period after the start of a disruptionwithin which the activity needs to be resumed

The minimum level at which the activity needs to beperformed on its resumption

The Length of time within which normal levels ofoperation need to be resumed

3. Identify any interdependent activities,assets, supporting infrastructure or

resources that have also to be maintainedcontinuously or recovered over time

4. Consider the impact upon:

Staff or public wellbeing

Damage or loss of premises, plant or data

Breaches of statutory or regulatory duties

Damage to reputation or financial viability

Deterioration of product or service quality

Environmental damage

Business Impact Analysis

Case Study: Business Continuity

Management in MalaysiaPPP for

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Management in Malaysia

Source: Ong Ai Lin, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Private Sectors engagement in DRR in Malaysia.

SIRIM MS 1970:2007

Bank Negara Malaysia BNM

Guidelines 2008

Malaysian standards and guidelines

In general, sectors with comprehensive BCMprogramme are (in descending order):

Financial services

Multinational Oil & Gas corporations Telecommunication

Airline and aerodrome operators

Other sectors are more ad-hoc

Implementation varies by sector

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Business Continuity Planning Organigram/Structure

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Case Study: UEM Group and Mercy MalaysiaPPP forChDRR


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Source: Masahiro Takeda, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Private Sectors engagement in DRR in Malaysia.

UEM is owned by Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Investment arm of the MalaysianGovernment)

UEM setup UEM ALERT during the Johor Floods of December 2006. The directivesincluded:

UEM ALERT as a part of the Human Capital Development Program

UEM ALERT leading and facilitating programs for all employees in humanitarianand charitable causes

UEM ALERT channeling group effort riding on Group synergies UEM Group employees came together to help contribute physically and in terms of

food & money to help those in need

UEM Group & Khazanah immediately pledged approximately US$250,000 (RM1M) infunds and resources to provide emergency relief assistance

Overview

UEM has a culture of systems and processes for long-term effectiveness

UEM has economies of scale in resources

Efficiencies in partnerships can be gained where skills and resources are lacking

Lessons learned:

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To develop UEMs employees understanding of humanitarian relief UEM pledges funds to Mercy Malaysia

Mercy may work with UEM Academy and UEM Leadership utilizing facilities

Trained UEM employees enrolled as UEM ALERT volunteers forhumanitarian response

2007

Inaugural Volunteer Induction Programs

UEM ALERT volunteers involvement in Mercys Basic Mission TrainingPrograms

Short Band Radio training and qualification programs for both UEMALERT members and staff of Mercy Malaysia

Flood preparedness initiatives 2008

UEM ALERT members involvement in Mercys Disaster PreparednessPrograms

More structured approach to flood preparedness programs

UEM partnership with Mercy Malaysia

Case Study: Anti-Disaster Glass Promotion

in JapanPPP for

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in Japan


Breakdown of usage of glass

Case Study: Petronas Corporate Social

ResponsibilityPPP for

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Source: Rosli Abdul Rahim, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Private Sectors engagement in DRR in Malaysia.

Program launched in April 2005 Enlisted 350 staff members

Deployed or trained volunteers through the programme or with MercyMalaysia

Over 100 staff have been deployed on missions

Approximately 150 have specialized training

Volunteer Opportunity Programme

Focused on developing a pool of volunteers trained in Total Disaster RiskManagement and exposed in the area of humanitarian relief efforts forcommunities stricken by disasters

Aimed at inculcating the spirit of volunteerism

Providing a platform for PETRONAS employees to contribute their time, skillsand experience for the benefit of the community through specializedhumanitarian relief programmes conducted by partners such as MercyMalaysia

Provides an opportunity for cultural integration, leadershipdevelopment, character building,

Objectives

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Reduction

Contents Statistics Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and HFA

UCLG Istanbul Declaration

Asia Regional Task Force on Urban Risk Reduction

Case Study: EMI Projects on Urban DRR

Case Study: PURR

Case Study: ADPC Promise Program

Case Study: United Nations University

Challenges and Recommendations

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Levels of Global Urbanization in 1950

URBANChDRR Statistics: Urbanization in Asia


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Levels of Expected Urbanization in 2015

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Concentration of people in cities is increasing their vulnerabilities to naturalhazards, civil strife, and climate change impacts

In Asia there are more than 30 mega cities (populations more than 5 million)

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Source: Violeta Somera-Seva, 2 December 08, Special Session on Accelerating Progress in Implementing the

Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in Asia and Pacific .

Overview

No standard of practicefor local level DRM

Lack of coherency andcomplementarities amongongoing urban DRMinitiatives

No adequate mechanism

for measuringeffectiveness in terms ofmainstreaming DRR inlocal government functions

Inadequate financial,technical and humanresources at local level

Trend in urban disaster riskreduction

Launching of several urbanDRR programs byinternational organizations(e.g., World Bank GFDRR,UNDP/BCPR, UNISDR IAP,RTF-URR)

DDR Initiatives of regional

organizations (e.g., ADPC,ADRC, JICA, WHO-Kobe,UNU etc.)

Recognition of and actionon urban risk by nationalgovernments

Increasing awareness and

action among localgovernments and localgovernment organizationsUCLG, CITYNET,METROPOLIS, ICLEI, EMI

Current initiatives

Words into Action for LocalGovernments for HFAImplementation

Radius +10

ADPC-Project PROMISE

JICA Technical Training onDRR

Urban Risk ProfilingUNISDR, Citynet, KyotoUniversity)

EMI Cluster Cities Project/3cd Program in MetroManila, Kathmandu

WB/GFDRR Primer onReducing Vulnerabilitiesfor Climate ChangeImpacts and StrengtheningDRM In East Asian Cities

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Source: Violeta Somera-Seva, 2 December 08, Special Session on Accelerating Progress in Implementing the Hyogo

Framework for Action (HFA) in Asia and Pacific .

UCLG Istanbul Declaration Local Action For Disaster Risk Reduction

This calls to states, multilateral and bilateral agencies and the UNSystem, the UNISDR and all stakeholders to support the following:

Local DRR strategies and actions and sharing of best practices atthe local level

Improve communication and coordination of actions withrepresentative organizations

Set up capacity building/training programs for municipalstaff, launch awareness raising and education campaign

Adapt and develop a local framework for action derived from HFA Set up a Global Forum for local governments as institutional

support for implementation of the HFA at the local level

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Source: Yuki Matsuoka, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Asian Urban Task Force (UTF).

Vulnerability due to urbanization is increasingUrban areas are prone to geological and hydro meteorological disasters

Urban risk has been neglected

There are weak institutional arrangements

Lack of political feasibility

Insufficient knowledge, experience, capacity

Why urban?

Urbanization is high in Asia

Population density is high

Greater vulnerabilities

Why Asia?

UN/ISDR Hyogo Office together with close partners took an initiative to develop the AsiaRegional Task Force on URR as a thematic group on urban risk reduction within the ISDRsystem in Asia to facilitate and accelerate efforts and actions for urban risk reduction

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Source: Yuki Matsuoka, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Asian Urban Task Force (UTF).

Short Thematic Review onUrban Risk in Asia

Contribution to the Global Assessment

Report

Inventory of urban riskreduction initiatives in the AsiaRegion

HFA Status Report on urban riskreduction in Asia

Distribution at Global Platform

Guidelines for implementationof the HFA

Production of guidelines for

implementation of HFA for localgovernments

Radius plus 10

Support analysis of seismic risks forcities, and development of riskscenarios and an action plans for cities,a set of recommendations

Urban Risk Profiling Initiative

Climate Disaster Resilience Initiative(CDRI) for Asia-Pacific Cities

Led by Kyoto University in cooperationwith Citynet, UNISDR, UNU

Development of a climate disasterresilience index

Meetings of the Regional TaskForce

Production of basic documents Terms of reference

Flyer and CD ROM

Work plan and relevant meeting listIntranet of the RTF-URR within

PreventionWeb

URBANChDRR

Activities for 2009

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Source: Violeta Somera-Seva, 1 December 08, Pre-Conference Event on Asian Urban Task Force (UTF).

Activities for 2009

ProVention Consortium Project - Disaster

Risk Reduction in Megacities and ComplexUrban Metropolises Phase II (Aug. 2007-Jul. 2009)

Development of DRM tools and eLearning courses

MEGA-Index, MEGA-Know, MEGA-Learn, MEGA-Plan,MEGA-Safe

World Bank Institute - Distance Learning

Program on Natural Disaster Risk Management (Aug. 2006 Dec. 2009)

German FFO DKKV Project: Phase II (Jul.2008 - Dec. 2009)

Development of a risk-sensitive land use plan forKathmandu

Structuring and implementing a competent disaster riskmanagement unit in Kathmandu

Urban redevelopment planning for one of the mostdisaster-prone neighborhoods of Makati City

Training of disaster management professionals withinMetro Manila on competent, local-level emergencymanagement practices

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Activities for 2009

UNDP Amman (Apr. 2007

Apr. 2009) Reducing earthquake risk in

Amman, Jordan through a DisasterRisk Management Master Planningapproach

Partnership for Urban Risk

Reduction (Apr. 2008 Apr.2009)

Worldwide awareness campaign

Local capacity building

Building and strengthening a Global

Platform for Local Authorities

World Bank/GFDRR Project -Phase 1

Jun Dec 2008

Strengthening the DRM capacity oflocal government units in thePhilippines

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PURR is an ad hoc coalition composed of UCLG, ICLEI, Metropolis,CITYNET and EMI, set up as an advocacy and support initiative tolocal authorities worldwide

Overview

Worldwide awareness campaigns about risk reduction in regionsregularly affected by natural disasters

Building capacity at the local level to foresee and manage risks bytransferring technical know-how to local actors and decision-

makers Setting up a global platform for local authorities and their partners

in order to build and promote a sustainable strategy for disasterrisk reduction within the broader international context

Objective

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Source: ADPC, 3 December 08, Side Event on Reducing Disaster Risk in Urban Areas.

Program for Hydro-Meteorological Disaster Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia(PROMISE)

Overview

Member

countries

Lead institution City

Bangladesh Bangladesh Disaster

Preparedness Center (BDPC)

Chittagong

Indonesia Bandung Institute of

Technology (ITB)

Metro

Jakarta

Pakistan Aga Khan Planning and

Building Services

Hyderabad

Philippines Center for Disaster

Preparedness (CDP)

Dagupan

Sri Lanka Lanka Jathika Sarvodaya

Sangamana (Sarvodaya)

Kalutara

Vietnam Center for International

studies and Cooperation

(CECI)

Da Nang

Enhancement of emergency responsecapacity

City demonstration projects Setting up community level EOC

Safer shelters

Guidelines

Improve construction practices

Small scale disaster mitigation initiatives

Regional level capacity building initiatives

National level capacity building initiatives

School safety programs

Advocacy for mainstreaming DRR

Regional networking

Information dissemination

Activities

Case Study: United Nations UniversityURBANChDRR

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