Available	2023-05-25 – 2023-06-11
Contact person	Elisa Viteri Marquez, employed at CNDS

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 was adopted at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan, on 18th March 2015. On 18th and 19th May 2023, the General Assembly conducted a high-level meeting on the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework and Heads of State and Government, Ministers, and High-level Representatives signed a Political Declaration where they reaffirm their commitment to the full implementation of the Sendai Framework.

During this seminar, you are all invited to discuss the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework with Margareta Wahlström, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction at the time when the Sendai Framework was adopted. Furthermore, she has more than 30 years of experience in disaster relief management with the United Nations, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the private sector. She also acted as the president of the Swedish Red Cross 2017-2021.

Tentative program
14:00 Welcome and Introduction. Giuliano Di Baldassarre, CNDS director

14:10 Edo-period Amabie and 21st century Mr Tritium: Chimeric beings and boundaries between humans and ecologies in Japan. Presentation by Claudia Merli, Associate Professor at Department of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University

14:35 Case studies of disaster risk reduction (tentative). Presentation by Shakti Raj Shrestha, Postdoc, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University

15:00 Coffee break

15:15 Midterm review of the Sendai Framework for DRR. Presentation by Margareta Wahlström, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and member of CNDS Reference Group.

15:50 Panel discussion: are we halfway there?
Moderator: Riccardo Biella, PhD student, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University
Panelists: Margareta Wahlström
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Jenni Koivisto, Associate lecturer, Centre for Societal Risk Research, Karlstad University

16:30 Group discussions

16:50 Debriefing

17:00 Mingle & food in Mässen