Building resilience against biological hazards and pandemics: COVID-19 and its implications for the Sendai Framework

To make our case, we examine current responses to COVID-19 and their implications for the Sendai Framework Disaster Risk Reduction. We argue that current mechanisms and strategies for disaster resilience, as outlined in the SFDRR, can enhance responses to epidemics or global pandemics such as COVID-19. In this regard, we make several general and DRR-specific recommendations. These recommendations concern knowledge and science provision in understanding disaster and health-related emergency risks, the extension of disaster risk governance to manage both disaster risks and potential health-emergencies, particularly for humanitarian coordination aspects; and the strengthening of community-level preparedness and response.

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