Disaster risk reduction

A Global Strategy for Disaster Risk

Integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Those efforts involve linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, as well as ensuring that implementation of the Millennium Development Goals supports disaster risk reduction.

In support of this, UNDP will deploy national disaster risk reduction advisers to assist national efforts in capacity building for disaster risk reduction in 20 of the most disaster prone countries of the world.

(1) Training Workshop on Community Based Disaster Risk Management

Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer world

Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer future

New developments include partnerships in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to promote disaster risk reduction and to design subregional common policies on disaster risk reduction.

General statements Indian Ocean Disaster risk reduction for a safer future

The secretariat of ISDR uses satellite imagery in disaster risk reduction.

Recognizing the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

Emphasizing also the importance of integrating risk reduction into all phases of disaster management, development planning and post disaster recovery,

Noting the ongoing work of all the working groups established by the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction, namely the Working Group on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, the Working Group on Disaster Reduction in Africa, the Working Group on Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster Impact Assessment and the Working Group on the World Conference on Disaster Reduction,

Recognizing also the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

Several countries found it practical to use disaster resistant hospitals as an example of a benchmark for reducing overall disaster risk.

India set up its national disaster management authority to strengthen the national and institutional legislative system to deal with disaster risk reduction.

We recognize that the international community has accumulated much experience with disaster risk reduction through the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and the succeeding International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

Shifting from emergency disaster response to more proactive disaster prevention, risk reduction and mitigation will, in our view, be the key to success.

Most important, States should also conceive mechanisms that allow bottom up disaster risk reduction initiatives, originating at the community level and contributing to the shaping of disaster risk reduction policy and programmes at the national level.

We reaffirm the vital role of the United Nations system in disaster risk reduction.

In Asia, Governments are building greater commitments to disaster risk reduction through several mechanisms.

The new concept of integrated risk management was adopted for interventions in disaster situations

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.

One approach is to mainstream disaster preparedness and risk reduction concerns into broader governance and poverty reduction programmes that are likely to run in longer cycles, and to boost the capacities and engagement of high risk countries with the deployment of disaster response and risk reduction advisers.

Emphasizing the importance of addressing vulnerability and integrating risk reduction into all phases of natural disaster management, post natural disaster recovery and development planning,

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

Emphasizing the importance of addressing vulnerability and integrating risk reduction into all phases of natural disaster management, post natural disaster recovery and development planning,

Disaster related legislation and regulatory frameworks within the context of strengthened national systems are essential to creating an enabling environment for disaster risk reduction.

In this connection, a special session on the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, convened at the World Conference to review that disaster from a risk reduction perspective, delivered the Common Statement of the Special Session on Indian Ocean Disaster Risk Reduction for a Safer Future as its outcome.

In an effort to enhance synergy between the NAPA process and efforts towards disaster risk reduction, the Chair of the LEG participated in a video conference of the Interagency Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction during SBI 22.

Emphasizing also the importance of integrating risk reduction into development planning and post disaster recovery,

Reducing risk by strengthening disaster management must be a principal aim of the international community.

Disaster risk reduction lies at the nexus of development assistance, which seeks to advance better living conditions, and humanitarian aid, which begins after a disaster hits. Starting our international calendar with the Sendai meeting on disaster risk reduction sends a clear signal that the world is ready to integrate its strategies.

Noting the critical role played by local resources, and by existing in country capacities, in natural disaster management and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

It demonstrates once again our vulnerability to natural phenomena and reminds us that we must incorporate disaster prevention and disaster risk reduction into our development policies.

Recognizing that disaster risk reduction is a cross cutting issue in the context of sustainable development,

(d) Disaster risk reduction diminishes the need for humanitarian emergency interventions in the aftermath of disasters

It is a vehicle for strengthening the financing of and support to disaster risk reduction globally.

Sustainable disaster risk reduction needs to become an integral component of environmental, economic and social development.

These actors are best placed to recognize and address disaster risk accumulation in their own environment, and represent the first line of response in case of disaster.

7. Stresses that, in order to reduce vulnerability to natural hazards, risk assessments should be integrated into disaster risk reduction programmes at national and local levels

Noting the importance of the ongoing work of the Working Group on climate change and disaster risk reduction, established by the Inter Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction,

He said, Life on Earth is at an ever increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster ...

Much work remains in order to change the development paradigm to seriously assess and reduce disaster risk.