The 8th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

GP2025

Geneva

2–6 June 2025

https://globalplatform.undrr.org

Access live session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gxzUT5FB54

Remote Audiences Comments

• Cost of inaction is much higher than the cost of taking action
• We need to make more efforts to work across silos, actors and engage non-usual suspects to accelerate progress.
• We are a critical mass with a joint mission to make a positive change.
• We NEED more platforms for collaboration, to share data across differing sectors and disciplines AND across differing levels(transnational)
• I should advocate for a multi sector anticipatory action response plan in my country
• The solutions of the past are not the solutions of the future
• We have inclusive approaches and examples – we need to institutionalise inclusivity for EWS now.
• The absolute necessity to ensure the right engagement of stakeholders, institutionalisation of leave no one behind
• Keep EW simple, make is accessible to EVERYONE is way they understand, and collaboration.
• Effective EWS is one that is for all and by all.
• Bringing together humanitarian/development communities with national systems
• Development of Multi-Risk EWS with an intersectional and inclusive gender approach
• We are on the same page, others are not, we need to spread the word, raise finance, and embed warnings in policy for all hazards (natural and human-made)
• Science-government connections for community information
• Increase the interaction with private sector for improve the awareness in the DRR.
• EWS should have a multi-hazard approach and involve effective stakeholder collaboration at national level for ownership, inclusion and sustainable financing
• People-centered EWS
• The importance of localized EWS
• Needs for accelerating the EW4ALL & reduce bureaucracy in financing.
• Government buy-in for appropriate legal framework to benefit from co-financed ODA projects
• Link to communty to EWs
• Let’s use the incredible opportunities of technology, especially mobile networks and reach, to bring alerts to everybody.
• Drastically reduced funding makes stronger coordination necessary. We need synergies beyond silos (and beyond common places & buzzwords!)
• Cell broadcast is a significant opportunity for alert dissemination
• [In French]: Cooperation, cooperation, cooperation! With everyone, at all levels, 360 degrees.
• Collaboration at all levels with all stakeholders to achieve EW4All
• Co- development of early warning withe people most at risk is crucial
• Long-term, co-financed programmes that are inclusive, action-oriented and multi-risk are needed
• More funding, more effective, and sustainable.
• People Centered collaboration
• Coordination Co-financing
• The potential of private finance funding involvement
• Effective EWS is one that is for all and by all.
• Multi-stakeholder and multi-government initiatives
• need to innovate finance
• We need stronger yet simplified, streamlined partnerships
• The absolute necessity to ensure the right engagement of stakeholders, institutionalisation of leave no one behind
• We should talk to the non-converted
• UN to hold the government accountable to make concerted efforts and mandates for a political buy-in of developing an ICT-driven and integrated EWS ( sectors, stakeholders, and climate frontline )

EW4ALL Piller Summarized Thematic Flyer /Flagings :