Human rights and disaster risk reduction: strengthening the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. Considerations from the Asia-Pacific Region

This publication focuses on applying the human rights framework prior to a disaster arising and seeks to deepen an understanding of what it means to take a human rights-based approach to disaster risk reduction and provide guidance to States and other stakeholders on how to do so. 

It explores four specific ways in which a human rights-based approach to disaster risk reduction can support efforts by States and others to implement the Sendai Framework, including through:

• Ensuring that people are at the centre of disaster risk reduction. 
• Mobilising maximum available resources for disaster risk reduction. 
• Regulating business activities to prevent and reduce disaster risk. 
• Taking longer-term measures to tackle the underlying drivers of disaster risk.