Preventing El Niño Southern Oscillation Episodes from Becoming Disasters: A ‘Blueprint for Action’
The Blueprint for Action (‘the Blueprint’) is a tool to support integrated, nationally-led and equity-driven plans to prepare for El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and other climate hazards, absorbing risks without jeopardizing development gains, and informing climate-smart development plans to reduce risk. The Blueprint encourages the global, regional, national and local partnerships necessary to support the implementation of these plans. Action is envisioned across the 15-year timeframe of the Agenda 2030, measured by progress against the targets and indicators of all eight international commitments and agreements which were endorsed/reviewed in 2014-2016.
The Blueprint identifies three themes and eleven ‘building blocks’ which can be incorporated as appropriate into nationally led multihazard plans and other efforts to focus greater efforts on prevention and resilience:
Turning early warning into early action (Anticipate)
- Collective risk analysis, early information sharing and early requests for support
- Harmonised early action planning including agreed thresholds for action
- Allocation of domestic resources for preparedness and early action
Managing risk to protect people and assets (Absorb)
- Adaptive social protection programmes for resilience
- Expanded use of insurance solutions whenever appropriate
- Protecting dependent populations in institutions: Healthcare, Justice and Education
Climate-proofing development (Reshape)
- Risk-informed national and local planning for disaster and climate resilience
- Climate-proof strategies for resilience in the food, nutrition security and agriculture/pastoralism sector
- Climate-proof strategies for resilience in the health and nutrition sector
- Climate-proof strategies for resilience in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector
- Climate-proof strategies for resilience in the resilient livelihoods sector
Collaboration with a wide range of other partners will also be needed to achieve results.