Background
Global community, including India have become the signatory of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2030. Hon’ble Prime Minister of India has also outlined 10-point agenda in Asian Ministerial conference as a way of achieving DRR. The other two other convection- Sustainable Development Goals, Cop 21 and DRR may also be aligned with the Disaster Risk Reduction Framework. Many ideas have been floated so far. With the initiative of UNISDR and Govt of India, a national platform was constituted to bring all the stakeholders from different sectors to come on one platform and share their ideas, initiatives taken, challenges of the sector and make an action plan for disaster risk reduction. So far India has already organised two NPDRR and third is scheduled to be held during the month of May 2020.
Several Sessions, pre-events, exhibition have been the part of NPDRR. The third NPDRR is proposing to have session called IGNITE. If we define IGNITE, it has a simple meaning in the dictionary called initiate fire or cause to catch fire: “furniture can give off lethal fumes when it ignites"synonymscatch fire, catch, burst into flames, be set off,The IGNITE session basic objectives is to generate ideas in the minds of the delegates who would be participating in the NPDRR main session. Igniting ideas means reflection of innovative ideas generated during the session will be compiled and put up before the delegates in the plenary. Anyone who would be interested in taking the ideas forward may be a support would be provided by the platform or by any partnering institutions or members who are representing in the national platform.
Structure: There would be an open session, anyone who would be interested in sharing their ideas have to register at two places. One at the main site of the platform and another on the link of IGNITE. There is no rigid predefined topics for sharing the ideas, however National Platform would provide a list of themes /categories where contributors can choose. Each theme will be allotted date and time where they can come and participate.
Themes/ Categories/ Suggested list:
1. Women Leadership
2. Humanitarian Assistance
3. Spirituality and Risk Management
4. Disaster Risk Auditing
5. DISECOnomics / CATAnomics
6. Children space in Disaster
7. LGBT
8. Measuring vulnerability - Widows
9. Sexuality and Disasters
10. Transboundary Disasters
11. Disaster Diplomacy
12. Participatory Risk Reduction
13. Risking the Risk
14. Making the Invisible -visible
15. Social Media
16. Vulnerability as Empowerment
17. Capacity development
18. Private Public Partnership
19. Forest Fire
20. Urban Flooding and Draining
21. Urban Governance and Fire
22. Risk Imperialism
23. A.I & Robotics
24. AYUSH as a tool for Risk Reduction
25. Make in India-DRR
26. Emotional Intelligence
27. Risk Communication
28. Mythology and Disasters
29. Youth’s engagement
30. DNA of DRR
31. Social contract and DRR
32. Disasters Transacting state boundaries
33. International Aid
34. Slow onset disasters
35. Poverty
36. Preventing preventable deaths
37. Bio politics and DRR
38. Imagining Possibilities
39. Perpetuating Relief
40. Passion for Dams and Embankments
41. Inevitable doom
42. Risking my own building
43. Transboundary Disasters
44. Disaster Diplomacy
45. Participation Risk Reduction
46. Making the Invisible – visible
47. Social Media
48. Public Funding for Research
49. Old Age
50. Vulnerability as Empowerment
51. Disability right
52. Capacity Development
53. Past, Present and Future
54. What happens to people after diseases
55. Heritage
56. Wildlife
57. Cyber Security
58. Disaster Law/ DRR- Right to Life
59. Corporate Social Responsibility
60. Urban Flooding and Fire
61. Disaster Tourism
62. New perspectives to disasters
63. Disaster leadership
64. Lightening
65. Space
66. Emergency Intelligence: a new
67. Disaster Resource Capabilities (Type)
68. Emotional Intelligence
69. Risk Communication
70. Mythology and Disasters
71. Unthinkable Climate Change
72. The great Derangement
73. Space & Place in Disasters
74. Disasters Transacting state boundaries
75. Concentration and Accumulation of Risk
76. Financing the Non-financed
77. Last mile connectivity
78. Violence/ Crime during disasters
79. Climate refugees
80. Disaster Effects and Impacts
81. I will not exist!
82. Ethics and Disaster Governance
83. 5-15 feet
Time allotted to speakers: Each speaker would be given 4 minutes and will be allowed to take only two questions from the audience. There would be a session moderator from NIDM who will be coordinating the whole event.
Web cast: There would be live web cast of the event and ideas shared by the delegates would be recorded for the proceedings. Web cast would be manged by NIDM ‘s team.
Venue: There would be a studio type arrangement at the main venue of the NPDRR. Speakers have to speak in front of the live camera. The telecast will be live.
Timings: The IGNITE session will commence soon after the Inaugural session and will continue parallel to all the activities of the NPDRR. The session will be closed on the second day before the Valedictory session.
Outcomes: Sessions key output would be summarised and will be presented in the Valedictory session.
Disclaimer: Each speaker will be responsible for their ideas and contents shared during the live IGNITE session. NIDM will not be responsible for any factual error or views expressed by the speakers.