Towards the next generation of risk reduction and resilience: sustainable development needs resilient communities
This position paper aims at describing the main challenges for the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction. It calls on a more radical change is required in how the new framework for disaster risk reduction (HFA2) in 2015 is conceived, designed and executed to adequately represent experiences of vulnerable people and ensure full participation of all stakeholders in the process of building resilience in order to reduce risks to acceptable levels.
It also advocates for the post-2015 disaster risk reduction framework to strengthen the resilience and ability of people and their communities to anticipate, organize for and adapt to shocks and stresses of all kinds: short and long-term, natural and human-derived, rapid and slow onset, rural and urban, economic, social, environmental, geopolitical and climate change. Community resilience is the basic building block and foundation of national resilience and needs to be at the center of a post-2015 disaster risk reduction framework.