‘Resilience’ across the post-2015 frameworks: towards coherence?

This paper takes as its starting point the international frameworks negotiated and agreed by the world’s governments in 2015 and 2016. These include (in chronological order) the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (referred to hereafter as the Sendai Framework), the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (the Paris Agreement) and the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS). These frameworks are in part a vision, articulating a set of goals and targets that, if achieved, will create a future where significant progress is made on the disaster, sustainable development, climate and humanitarian challenges of today. They are a product of their time: they reflect the social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual themes of the early twenty-first century, and they build on the successes and challenges of previous international frameworks.