(1) Training Workshop on Community Based Disaster Risk Management

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

International efforts in providing humanitarian assistance and disaster risk management need to be supplemented at regional and subregional levels.

Disaster risk reduction

Disaster risk management, rather than ad hoc humanitarian issues, should become an integral part of our long term development policies.

Greater awareness in respect of natural disaster risk management planning and capacity building at the national level will be crucial.

Although we should pay due attention to the post disaster situation, a multi hazard and well balanced approach to all phases of disaster management including preparedness, relief, rehabilitation and long term reconstruction is absolutely necessary if any comprehensive disaster risk management strategy is to be successful.

As vulnerability to disasters poses great challenges to socio economic development, disaster risk reduction and management emerge as important development issues.

17. Recognizes the importance of integrating a gender perspective and engaging women in the design and implementation of all phases of disaster management, particularly at the disaster risk reduction stage

The Puebla Panama Plan included a natural disaster prevention and mitigation initiative, which incorporated risk management considerations in projects in all sectors.

(f) Disaster management

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.

15. Recognizes the importance of integrating a gender perspective as well as engaging women in the design and implementation of all phases of disaster management, particularly at the disaster risk reduction stage

17. Recognizes the importance of integrating a gender perspective as well as engaging women in the design and implementation of all phases of disaster management, particularly at the disaster risk reduction stage

Welcoming the development or strengthening of disaster management institutions in some affected countries that provide leadership in comprehensive disaster risk reduction as well as strengthen emergency response at local and national levels,

He cited examples of cooperation projects, conducted with bilateral assistance, focused on vulnerability assessment, disaster preparedness and risk management, integrated water management, prevention of desertification, and support of meteorological networks.

Noting the critical role played by local resources, as well as by existing in country capacities, in natural disaster response and risk management,

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

A Global Strategy for Disaster Risk

The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 2015, adopted by the World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005, reaffirmed that a gender perspective should be integrated into all disaster risk management policies, plans and decision making processes, including those related to risk assessment, early warning, information management and education and training.

Disaster management and risk reduction efforts have also been strengthened by the launch, in December 2004, of the Humanitarian Early Warning Service website (www.hewsweb.org).

Stressing the importance of advancing the implementation of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and its relevant provisions on vulnerability, risk assessment and disaster management,

Regional organizations in disaster prone regions should play a greater role in disaster risk reduction and management by devising regional level programmes and by supporting the efforts undertaken by the countries of the region.

The outcomes of the recent World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Kobe, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005, can support national and regional programmes and strategies for risk reduction and disaster management.

The Risk and Disaster Management Programme provides local government, communities and business organizations with practical strategies for mitigating and recovering from conflicts and natural disasters.

The High Level Panel organized at the session drew attention to the importance of regional cooperation in disaster reduction, especially in early warning systems and the development of regional strategies to deal with disaster risk management.

(10) risk management.

(v) Risk management.

Recalling also the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 2015, adopted by the World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in Kobe, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005, which recognized that a gender perspective should be integrated into all disaster risk management policies, plans and decision making processes, including those related to risk assessment, early warning, information management and education and training,

As far as the United Nations is concerned, the overarching constraint is the lack of sufficient human and financial resources for risk reduction and disaster management.

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.

The Working Group assisted the Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group, an informal group of resource stakeholders, in the development of a discussion paper entitled Disaster risk management in a changing climate , presented at the Conference, for use in promoting climate risk management issues in development agencies.

Integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Management has already established a risk management committee that will evaluate the piloting of enterprise risk management in the organization.

Space system based disaster management support.

Space system based disaster management support

UNV is also strengthening the regional South South cooperation modality for exchanging United Nations Volunteers with disaster risk management expertise for initial response to disasters and recovery.

The catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami indicated that effective disaster risk reduction and management relied greatly on the appropriate application of relevant information, communication and space technology tools.

C. Risk management strategy