Key discussion and outcome points:

• The various global development frameworks, while having varying focus, all hinge on common ends in the SDGs, which include resilience as a common thread.
• Challenges in the implementation of the global frameworks are how to find the coherence among them while maintaining the varying focus; how to translate the global principles to the development principles and programmes; and how to transform the principles into implementation from national to local levels.
• Key to address the challenges is the ability of the national planning agencies and authorities to leverage the global frameworks and to align them with national ambitions in one hand, and the resource’ framework in the other hand, to shape development priorities and then translate them into long, medium and short term plans and programmes; and to take every opportunity for implementation.
• Institutionalization of the global development frameworks require the internalization into national legislations, regulations and policies; assignment of formal roles among government ministries and agencies for planning, implementation and monitoring as well as monitoring and reporting at all levels. 
• Working together is the only way forward to implement the agendas and support sustainable development. 

Questions and Feedback:

• How to ensure that the global agenda are sustained throughout the change of political administration? Engage with the planning division of each line ministry to ensure consistency in development planning.
• How to engage with local government and ensure the integration of global frameworks in local plans?
  • Adjust with incoming local political timeline.
  • Enact an implementing framework (for example ministerial instruction) to impose integration and implementation of SDGs in local government plans.
  • Engage with the local planning and technical team to highlight the roles of local governments in global agenda implementation.

Key discussion and outcome points:

• Gender equality is recognized in all post-2015 global frameworks: Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the Sendai Framework and the Paris Agreement. This clear narrative increases opportunities for promoting equality and inclusion in all community levels.
• Labelling women as vulnerable has excluded them from decision-making processes and rendered invisible their contribution to community resilience building at the grassroots level.
• Change of approach from the “women are vulnerable” to “women are key to achieving resilience/SDGs” is important. Women bring together families and communities, which is a key to strengthening social systems for sustainable development. Women are also stewards of natural resources and this positions them well to manage environmental realities. When women are engaged and needs are addressed, development and resilience processes have more impact.
• Women are diverse group and not homogenous, and this fact needs to be taken into consideration.
• Gender equality agenda needs transformative strategies and actions- we need to place women’s leadership at forefront of DRR and other development agenda, strengthen and apply strategic information and evidence i.e Sex and age disaggregated data (SADD), gender analysis, and implementation of gender-transformative development policies.
• Behavioral changes needed to achieve gender equality at a global, regional, national and local level, is a long-term process. Challenges include cultural barriers, social norms, underinvestment in women’s resilience, lack of capacity building, limited access to resources (financial and non-financial), lack of substantive leadership and participation in decision-making in the DRR and other development agenda.
• Inclusion of gender perspective and effective community participation are the areas where the least progress seems to have been made. Many countries do not compile sex and age disaggregated data (SADD) on vulnerability and capacity.

Key discussion and outcome points:

• Partnership is inherently political. It may cause delay and frustration; however, it remains the best means to ensure participatory decision and actions, for larger and more sustainable impacts.
• In working towards the global agenda, multi-stakeholder partnerships are pivotal, we need more partnerships at national, regional and local levels.
• As the annual investment of private sector outweighs significantly that of public sector, it is vital to engage the private sector. Private sector often spearheads innovation. Examples of public-private engagement in DRR agenda in start-ups and social impact investing:
  • Global United Fund for Disaster Risk Reduction – a US$100 million fund for private sector innovators to develop sustainable solutions for disaster resilience, pledged by a business federation representing more than 250,000 enterprises in India, launched in the lead up to AMCDRR 2016.
  • Making cities resilient campaign – a campaign involving National governments, local government associations, international, regional and civil society organizations, donors, the private sector, academia and professional associations as well as every citizen to contribute to building disaster resilient cities. This campaign adopts the ‘knowledge’ and ‘can do’ attitude of the private sector.
  • Dow Chemicals’ engagement with their employee volunteers, Thai Red Cross, vocational colleges and other companies showcases the success of a multi-stakeholder partnership led by a private company in supporting community resilience.
• Civil society organizations (CSOs) have strong added values to ensure impacts. We need to continue engaging the civil societies as active partners.
• It is important to explain the jargon of global agenda to the communities, for example by training the local leaders to be responsive to the global agenda in their own communities at local, regional and national levels.
• Good partnership requires mutual respect, transparency, accountability and clarity of roles.
• Meeting in the middle: striking the balance between bottom up and top down approaches. Communities are strong actors of change with initiatives on local levels, and it’s important to capture these significant contributions.

Key discussion and outcome points:

• Partnerships are always important, however there is a cost in promoting partnership.
• Academia needs to be engaged as a part of a stronger and sustained multi-stakeholder partnership, to be achieved by building trust among these actors through making a space for regular knowledge sharing.
• Main challenges of implementing the global frameworks at the local level include the lack of capacity and resources in localization of indicators and other monitoring and reporting mechanisms. Therefore, it’s paramount to increase capacities of the local government units to promote and localize the global agenda; to conduct consultation to localize and prioritize indicators and to enhance reporting mechanisms.
• Another challenge is on coordination with disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation are under different ministries.
• It is important to cascade relevant, practical and understandable information to local communities.