Develop a long-term CEOS plan (2015-2030) to address top priority HFA2 needs. The plan will be prepared in close cooperation with the major stakeholders involved in DRR including donor agencies, and with key representatives of the DRR user community. An outline of the plan will be presented for consideration at SIT-31, with a final version submitted for endorsement at the 30th CEOS Plenary Meeting. For Sendai, CEOS and a group of key international stakeholders will issue a White Paper on "Earth Observation and Space-based applications contribution to Disaster Risk Reduction", describing the most urgent needs in disaster risk management with the resources available.
GEO-DARMA proposal ?issued; to be submitted by CEO to GEO SEC as new GEO initiative in the GEO Work Plan to be approved at next GEO Plenary.
GEO-DARMA will address some of the ?Sendai Framework 2015-2030?endorsed at WCDRR (March 2015). First phase (Concept phase) aims at preparing a series of recommendations (types of hazards per region, issues, initial countries per region) to begin with; then a Plan of Action will be developed by all stakeholders involved incl. CEOS in response to recommendations whenever feasible with resources available.