Private sector engagement towards
disaster resilient societies
APRU Multi-Hazards (MH) Summer School, 20 July 2016, IRIDeS, Tohoku UniversityYoshiko AbeKokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Member of UNISDR Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE)

Today’s topics• How did Kokusai Kogyo get involved in the
UNISDR private sector group, and what has the
UNISDR private sector group been doing?
• Why is DRR by the private sector so important?
• ARISE (UNISDR Private Sector Alliance forDisaster Resilient Societies )and private sectorengagement12011 UNISDR Private Sector Advisory Group andPrivate Sector Partnership created22011 Global Platform GP11
Plenary “Invest Today for a Safer Tomorrow”

3Kokusai Kogyo’s strength:
we could talk about real-life business examples

Products & services based on geospatial information technology
In Japan: local government procurement, e.g. DRM, hazard maps
Overseas: JICA (ODA) projects, e.g. Technical Assistance4

2012 Asian Ministerial Conference(AMCDRR Yogyakarta)
First private sector ‘commitment statement’2013 Global Platform GP13
Theme “Invest Today for a Safer Tomorrow”
Plenary “Private Sector for Resilient Societies”
Many private sector related events, sessions, etc.

Global Assessment Report (GAR13)
Focus on private sector
Case study publications, workshops

2014 AMCDRR Bangkok, otherregional platforms &…

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2014 Advocacy and input towards Sendai Framework
via formal and informal UN processes

10 Major Groups including the private sector633 mentions of private sector in the Sendai Framework

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Source of Sendai Framework graphic: White Paper on Disaster Management 2015, Cabinet Office, Japan7

2015 3rd UN World Conference on DRR, Sendai, Japan

Adoption of Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-2030
PSAG Advisory GroupPSP Membership
R!SE Initiative & Projects

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Today’s topics• How did Kokusai Kogyo get involved in the
UNISDR private sector group, and what has the
UNISDR private sector group been doing?
• Why is DRR by the private sector so important?
• ARISE (UNISDR Private Sector Alliance forDisaster Resilient Societies )and private sector
engagement
9Source: Global Assessment Report 2013, UNISDR

Why Private Sector? To address rising disaster economic
loss (businesses are victims as well as the cause)

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Source: Global Assessment Report 2013, UNISDRSupermarkets

Construction

Image Sources: Private Sector Strengths Applied, 2013 UNISDR

Resilient businesses become community-embedded
resources (expertise, technology, manpower, local knowledge)

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Logistics

WaterDRR-embedded
vending machines

Weather-triggered
crop insurance

Source : Sompo Japan Nipponkoa

Source (above/below): Private
Sector Strengths Applied, 2013UNISDR

Private sector is source of innovation, DRR & resilienceembedded products and services, appliers of research

Financial incentives

Source : Japan Construction Engineers

Innovative erosion
control products

Private sector as partners – what enables private sectorengagement? What does successful engagement look like?
In Japan, ‘Emergency Agreements (EA)’ between
local governments and businesses are common
practice– 66 local governments entered agreementwith 7,378 businesses/associations– Average 114 per prefecture– EA between two local governments alsocommon(Data from March 2012)13

Google > “Private Sector Strengths Applied”
Publication date 2013. English and Japanese versions14(& Research partnersto academia for nextlevel DRR andresilience)15

Today’s topics• How did Kokusai Kogyo get involved in theUNISDR private sector group, and what has the
UNISDR private sector group been doing?
• Why is DRR by the private sector so important?
• ARISE (UNISDR Private Sector Alliance forDisaster Resilient Societies )and private sector
engagement
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3rd UN World Conference on DRR, Sendai, Japan• Adoption of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030• UNISDR private sector groups re-organized towards implementation

PSAG Advisory GroupPSP MembershipR!SE Initiative & Projects

17Sendai Framework’s key concept isMainstreaming of DRR
Expectations towards businesses:• Businesses must be resilient themselves• Businesses’ role as community-embedded resource• Businesses’ role in innovation
Mainstream DRR in the business community as well as
each company’s central strategies/plans(new urgency post-2015 with SDGs, Paris Agreement)

Sendai Framework’s key concept isMainstreaming of DRR
Expectations towards all:• All of government (disaster management agencies +other parts of government)• All of society (actions by businesses, stakeholders)
Mainstream DRR as fundamental, expected, anddesired element of our societyMechanisms in place towards
implementing the Sendai Framework
ARISE Member Commitments
Raise awareness of disaster risk
Influence
Share knowledge
Catalyse

ARISE Themes

ARISE Networks

DRM Strategies
Investment Metrics
Benchmarking and Standards
Education and training
Legal and Regulatory
Urban DRR & Resilience

Implement

Insurance… towards achieving the targets ofthe Sendai Framework

A group of companies who act to realize
Pursue game-changing
Sendai Framework expectations
towards
businesses
initiatives that cannot beand towardsofsingle
societyachievedallby acompany
alone… but may be achievableas ARISE together with UNISDR20http://www.preventionweb.net/arise/