The MCR2030 Learning Lab: The pathway from planning to financing and implementing local solutions seeks to contribute to achieving the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Priority 3: Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience. It also links directly to SDG's 11 & 13 (targets 11.a, 11.b, 13.1, 13.a).

Access to finance is one of the biggest obstacles faced by local governments when it comes to strengthening their resilience. The MCR2030 initiative, based on strategic regional and global partnerships, seeks to bridge this gap to support local governments to move from planning to implementation. To achieve this, it provides opportunities for governments to be connected to flows and tools that enable them to improve their capacity to access financing for resilience and climate action.

UNDRR has been mandated to support the monitoring of the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. This is facilitated through the online Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM). Launched in March 2018, the data from SFM has been used for monitoring of the Sendai Framework, while reporting for DRR-related indicators of SDGs. As of November 2022, 80% of countries from the Americas and the Caribbean have used the SFM for reporting. This session will focus on some key aspects of SFM and will allow for dialogue on specific areas of interest.

The session will be aligned with Target E of the Sendai Framework which calls for the revision or development of disaster risk reduction strategies. The dialogue will examine strategies that parliaments can support to build resilience to prevent forced climate migration, and the ways that relocation plans can be integrated into disaster risk reduction plans. Understanding that climate-related migration is expected to increase in the region due to an increase in frequency of disasters, it is essential that countries start planning how they will address the potential rise of migrants, including the internal migration of individuals to urban areas, as well as migrants from other countries.

Moreover, the session will highlight the differential circumstances (which may be impacted by the women's sense of security, education, resource availability, and other social demographics) that women and girls consider when weighing the decision of whether they will migrate, and the obstacles they face during the migration process, and upon arriving to their new location. It will also provide recommendations that should be considered to ensure relocation plans are gender responsive.

Cities are at the frontline of the current climate crisis, being both the main greenhouse gas emitters and sites of increasing climate-related disasters. While the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 recognizes the importance of including climate actions into disaster risk reduction policies, national and local DRR strategies can still lack a systematic integration of mitigation and adaptation measures.

The MCR2030 Learning Lab: “New tools to support climate resilience planning at the local level” seeks to contribute to achieving the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Priority 2: Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk, by helping cities to systematize the integration of climate and DRR actions. It also links directly to SDG's 11 & 13 (targets 11.a, 11.b, 11.5, 11.6, 13.1, 13.3, 13.a and 13.b).

This Lab is an opportunity to increase cities' awareness and capacities on how to integrate climate actions and DRR into common strategies and plans. To support cities in achieving this task, CAF and UNDRR, under the Making Cities Resilient 2030 initiative, introduce a new tool - the "Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities: Climate Resilience Addendum", which will provide operational insights on how to mainstream and strengthen the integration of climate action in the building of more resilient cities. 

The discussions in this lab will serve to identify challenges and opportunities for local governments to plan and implement climate resilience actions. Likewise, it will become a space for knowledge exchange that will enable the participants to learn -and share- inspiring practices from the region.