Harnessing the power of local voices and participation to build a more resilient post-2015 world

The paper presents a statement made by several civil society organizations who came together during the Philippine Road to Sendai CSO Summit on 6 March 2015. The statement notes that after ten years of implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, critical shortcomings in existing disaster risk reduction measures are driving the continued vulnerability of communities to disaster risks and losses, and calls on all stakeholders to integrate proposed principles in order to improve resilience.