What it is
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 is the global framework for reducing disaster risk. It sets priorities on understanding risk, strengthening disaster risk governance, investing in resilience, and enhancing preparedness to build back better in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.
Governance function
The framework shifts disaster policy from response toward prevention, risk governance, resilience investment, and recovery. In displacement governance, it provides the prevention and risk-reduction architecture that can reduce disaster displacement and shape post-disaster recovery.
Who is included
Communities and households exposed to disaster risk, disaster-affected populations, vulnerable groups, and people affected by recovery and reconstruction processes may be included through national DRR strategies.
Who is left out
People displaced beyond the emergency phase, cross-border disaster-displaced people, people outside local plans, informal settlers, and mobile populations may be left out if DRR systems do not explicitly address displacement.
Where continuity breaks
Continuity breaks when risk data do not identify displacement risk, when evacuation does not connect to recovery, or when build-back-better processes fail to restore housing, livelihoods, documentation, and local services.
Why it matters
The Sendai Framework is essential for displacement governance because it situates displacement before the crisis: in exposure, vulnerability, land use, preparedness, and recovery planning. The political economy archetype is prevention-oriented risk governance with weak individual entitlement.
Governance coding table
| Political economy archetype | Prevention-oriented risk governance |
|---|---|
| Responsibility | States hold primary responsibility, supported by local governments, disaster management agencies, UNDRR, civil society, the private sector, and international cooperation. |
| Eligibility | The framework does not create individual eligibility. Inclusion depends on national DRR policies, local plans, risk assessments, evacuation systems, and recovery programmes. |
| Financing | Financing depends on national DRR budgets, local government finance, resilience investment, disaster risk finance, development cooperation, and private investment. |
| Data systems | Risk assessments, loss and damage databases, early warning systems, exposure data, vulnerability analysis, national statistics, and displacement data shape implementation. |
| Delivery system | Delivery occurs through national and local DRR systems, preparedness programmes, early warning, evacuation, recovery, reconstruction, infrastructure, and social services. |
| Portability | Portability is weak unless DRR and recovery systems track people after movement and maintain access to assistance, documentation, housing, and services. |
| Accountability | Accountability is mainly policy and reporting-based, through national strategies, Sendai monitoring, public administration, local governance, and political oversight. |
| Time horizon | 2015-2030 global framework spanning prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. |
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