Disaster preparedness

C. Regional disaster response preparedness activities

Regional organizations play an important role in disaster preparedness.

3 Including ESCAP, ASEAN, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center and the Asian Disaster Reduction Centre.

(e) Strengthen disaster preparedness for effective response at all levels.

We need a comprehensive strategy to achieve such disaster management including early warning systems and disaster preparedness plans.

It provides us with an important opportunity to stress the priority that must be given to disaster preparedness and disaster response, together.

Nowadays, the need to forecast emergency situations and for disaster preparedness is becoming increasingly evident.

Recognizing the significant role played by national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

Relevant United Nations organizations and donor Governments should strengthen the capacity of disaster prone countries in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and post disaster recovery within a disaster risk reduction framework, by supporting relevant initiatives in this field.

Relevant United Nations organizations and donor Governments should enhance the level of preparedness of disaster prone countries, particularly at the local level, by significantly increasing funding for preparedness activities.

(i) Paragraph (a) should read Increased capacity of developing countries for preparedness in disaster prevention and mitigation.

Emergency preparedness is a big deal in disaster recovery because it makes towns safer and more resilient.

In Kenya, WFP is implementing jointly with the Government of Kenya the Fund for disaster preparedness activities .

17. Stresses the need to ensure close links, as set out in resolution 54 219, between disaster prevention activities and the improvement of natural disaster preparedness and response

Disaster risk mitigation and preparedness are integral to the planning of human settlements in countries prone to natural disasters.

(a) More effective integration of disaster risk considerations into sustainable development policies, planning and programming at all levels, with special emphasis on disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness and vulnerability reduction

Over the coming weeks, it will be crucial for us to reflect on the lessons from the disaster, particularly the importance of strengthening disaster preparedness and early warning mechanisms.

Encourages Non Self Governing Territories to take steps to establish and or strengthen disaster preparedness and management institutions and policies

The agreements reached at the 2005 World Conference on Disaster Reduction were of interest to all vulnerable developing countries, which would benefit from global risk reduction and disaster preparedness strategies.

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, based in Bangkok, is working through the Consultative Committee on Regional Cooperation in Disaster Management on mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into the social and economic development efforts of the Governments of the region.

13. Encourages Non Self Governing Territories to take steps to establish and or strengthen disaster preparedness and management institutions and policies

13. Encourages Non Self Governing Territories to take steps to establish and or strengthen disaster preparedness and management institutions and policies

Emphasizing the responsibility of all States to undertake disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts in order to minimize the impact of disasters,

Encourages the Non Self Governing Territories to take steps to establish and or strengthen disaster preparedness and management institutions and policies

The Strategy system should develop collaboration with entities responsible for disaster preparedness and response, including military forces and national rescue services.

Encourages the Non Self Governing Territories to take steps to establish and or strengthen disaster preparedness and management institutions and policies

IFRC contributed to the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction through increased preparedness, response activities, small scale mitigation, education, advocacy and partnerships.

Recalling the spate of recent international natural disasters, he drew attention to the importance of disaster preparedness, and welcomed the mechanisms on disaster reduction and early warning systems that had been introduced.

16. Encourages the Non Self Governing Territories to take steps to establish and or strengthen disaster preparedness and management institutions and policies

17. Encourages the Non Self Governing Territories to take steps to establish and or strengthen disaster preparedness and management institutions and policies

13. Encourages the Non Self Governing Territories to take steps to establish and or strengthen disaster preparedness and management institutions and policies

In addition to disaster preparedness and mitigation, Kyrgyzstan supports initiatives on the creation of a worldwide early warning system for natural disasters.

Our despair over the enormity of this disaster must be channelled into motivation to ensure much better preparedness next time nature strikes.

3. Invites the international community and the United Nations system and other international organizations to increase their support for the strengthening of the disaster risk management and disaster preparedness capacity of the Philippines

Emphasizing also the responsibility of all States to undertake disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts in order to minimize the impact of natural disasters,

Emphasizing also the responsibility of all States to undertake disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts in order to minimize the impact of natural disasters,

Emphasizing also the responsibility of all States to undertake disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts in order to minimize the impact of natural disasters,

Recognizing the significant role played by national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

Recognizing the significant role played by national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

Recognizing the significant role played by national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

Recalling that the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction has been serving as the main forum within the United Nations system for devising strategies and policies for disaster reduction and ensuring complementarity of action by agencies involved in disaster reduction, mitigation and preparedness,

Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in small island developing States supported national development plans that were anchored in disaster preparedness and risk reduction and, at times, had taken a lead role in disaster management training, early warning and pre positioning of disaster relief stocks.

In addition to the economic and social losses incurred, the report before the session also reviewed national and regional experiences in disaster management and preparedness and examined emerging issues in regional cooperation in natural disaster reduction.

Urges Governments, in planning for disaster preparedness and responding to natural disasters, to integrate a gender perspective as well as to ensure that women take an active and equal role in all phases of disaster management