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to protect lives, health, livelihoods, ecosystems, cultural heritage, and critical infrastructure from natural and human-caused hazards over the next 15 years. It seeks to bring about ''the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries'' (UNISDR 2015, p. 6). To achieve this major ambition, the UN General Assembly has endorsed the Sendai Framework and its set of seven clear targets and four priorities for action, which were adopted by the UN Member States at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan, in March 2015. The enthusiasm for the Sendai Framework in the Asia-Pacific region is evidenced by the fact that Indonesia, Mongolia, Thailand, and Vietnam moved quickly to translate the text and made clear statements of their intent to revise their current strategies that are largely based on the Sendai Framework's predecessor, the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (HFA). It is also encouraging that 17 countries participated in the first major international disaster risk reduction gathering post-Sendai-the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Asia Partnership meeting held in Bangkok in early June 2015 to discuss regional implementation of the new Sendai Framework.

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