A foundational pillar of the Promoting Resilient Preparedness Forum, enabling coherent, inclusive, and accountable action across climate, disaster risk, and humanitarian systems. This strategic action area focuses on strengthening institutional mechanisms, partnerships, and governance arrangements that allow diverse actors to work together effectively across sectors, scales, and geographies to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to climate and disaster risks.
This pillar directly aligns with SDG 13 (Climate Action) by strengthening adaptive capacity and integrating climate risk considerations into planning and governance, SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) through accountable and inclusive decision-making, and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) by fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration. It operationalizes Priority 2 of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which emphasizes strengthening disaster risk governance to manage risk through coordinated institutions, clear roles, and shared responsibility.
At its core, Coordination and Governance advances resilient partnerships by promoting structured collaboration among local communities, government institutions, humanitarian and development actors, the private sector, civil society, academia, and the media. It prioritizes community-led and equitable governance models, ensuring that local knowledge, leadership, and capacities are meaningfully embedded in decision-making processes and that preparedness efforts are responsive to localized risks and vulnerabilities. This approach is fully consistent with the Pakistan National Adaptation Plan (NAP), which highlights the importance of institutional coordination across federal, provincial, and local levels for effective adaptation implementation.
This action area also underpins the Forum’s ambition to establish and strengthen a “Network of Networks.” By connecting existing local, national, and regional platforms into a cohesive ecosystem, it promotes shared standards, joint planning, coordinated action, and collective advocacy. Through improved governance frameworks and coordination mechanisms, the Forum supports transparent information flows, mutual accountability, and sustained knowledge-sharing, directly contributing to Article 13 of the Paris Agreement on transparency and the whole-of-nation implementation approach emphasized in Pakistan’s NDC 3.0.
Recognizing that effective preparedness requires more than coordination alone, this pillar integrates risk financing and insurance considerations into governance structures. It supports policy dialogue, institutional alignment, and cross-sector coordination that enable innovative risk transfer and financing solutions to be designed and scaled in an inclusive and financially sustainable manner. This reinforces Article 9 of the Paris Agreement (Climate Finance) and Priority 3 of the Sendai Framework, while responding to Pakistan NDC 3.0’s call for strengthened institutional readiness to access and manage climate finance.
