Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015:
Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters

The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters was a 10-year plan endorsed by the UN General Assembly to make the world safer from natural hazards following the 2005 World Disaster Reduction Conference in Japan. The Conference provided a unique opportunity to promote a strategic and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities and risks to hazards. It underscored the need for, and identified ways of, building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.

The Hyogo Framework for Action addressed:

• Challenges posed by disasters
• The Yokohama Strategy: lessons learned and gaps identified
• WCDR: Objectives, expected outcome and strategic goals
• Priorities for action 2005-2015
• Implementation and follow-up

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR)

FAO also conceptualizes and implements disaster risk reduction (DRR) action for food and nutrition security in the agriculture sectors that are recurrently exposed to extreme climate (and other) events through four mutually supportive pillars. These four pillars correspond to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) and work to:

• create enabling environments through strengthened capacities and enhanced legal and planning frameworks for disaster risk and crisis governance;
• improve understanding of risks and informing decision-making through sector-specific risk monitoring and early warning systems;
• promote and diversify livelihoods with risk reducing technologies, approaches and practices across all agricultural sectors; and
• enhance capacities, coordination and planning in preparedness to improve response to, and recovery from, future threats to food and nutrition security, and to reduce their potential negative impact on livelihoods.

The Nairobi framework partnership

The Nairobi work programme on adaptation to climate change was developed to help countries improve their understanding of climate change impacts and vulnerability and to increase their ability to make informed decisions on how to adapt successfully.

FAO assists member countries to enhance their capacity to confront the negative impacts of climate change on agriculture, forests and fisheries. Relevant fields where FAO provides support include: agro-biodiversity; water management; agro-climatic data; conservation agriculture; organic farming; sustainable livestock management; fishing and aquatic food production; forest management, and pests and diseases assessment and management.