Overcoming Implementation Challenges for the HFA2

The Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) was the seminal framework that guided the global response to the challenges of disaster risk reduction (DRR). Drawn for a period of 10 years (2005-2015), the HFA aimed to build the resilience of countries and communities against disasters. With less than a year left for the HFA to culminate, the efforts to chalk out a successor framework have been gaining traction. Several consultations, workshops and roundtables have taken place to discuss a post-2015 framework for DRR (commonly known as the HFA2). All these efforts with CDKN support have yielded a pre-zero draft of the HFA2 which was circulated a few weeks ago. The 119th issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Overcoming Implementation Challenges for the HFA2: New Areas, Newer Insights’.