Hardly a week goes by without a major disaster.

Smooth on site coordination in the event of a major disaster involving both national and international responders is a major challenge.

It is more than a tragedy it is a major disaster in every possible meaning of the word.

In front of each major disaster, the Yuanshan people are spontaneously organizing donations and lend a helping hand to the community.

Given the recent succession of major disasters, his country wished to share its long experience in disaster management with other countries.

The Turkish nation, which unfortunately experienced a major earthquake in 1999, wholeheartedly sympathizes with the nations affected by the latest natural disaster.

Too often, however, societies affected by a major disaster tend to seek rapid and visible initiatives to restore normalcy, frequently at the cost of more sustainable and durable solutions that truly address the root causes of the disaster.

Thanks in part to the efforts of DPI, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (Kobe, Japan, 18 22 January 2005), which took place only three weeks after the tsunami disaster, generated over 400 articles by major newspapers worldwide.

There are many disaster reduction challenges confronting Southern Africa, the major hazards of concern being drought, epidemics, cyclones and storms, floods and armed conflict.

Of course, this is by no means a complete list, but each of those issues includes elements with the potential for causing a major disaster.

During the acute phase of an emergency, speedy and accurate transmission of all relevant information is a major requirement for effective work by disaster relief organizations.

A single major disaster could disrupt the distribution of food and water supplies, medical services, and both the local and international communication links of the stricken communities.

While ensuring that relief assistance is properly delivered, attention should also be given to disaster prevention and reduction, including helping the affected countries develop medium and long term plans for disaster reduction and establishing national and regional mechanisms for the monitoring, prevention and assessment of major disasters.

Major impediments to sustained growth are disasters, which often result in an affected country shifting its economic policies to sustain the energy required to cope with disaster response and subsequent reconstruction.

In the eastern Caribbean, a regional initiative the Eastern Caribbean Donor Group has been established to support the coordination of external emergency assistance in case of a major natural or technological disaster.

First, the tsunami disaster illustrated the lack of a systematic disaster management framework, including disaster mitigation measures, in many countries.

This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

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When disaster strikes, non governmental organizations (NGOs) are among the first on the scene. The United Nations estimates that there are now more than 37,000 international NGOs, with major donors relying on them more and more.

However, if a particular Government fails to live up to that responsibility, the international community has the obligation to take all necessary steps and use all available and necessary means to prevent a major humanitarian disaster.

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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.

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,

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

But reducing employment protection scares every worker in the private sector. This is understandable, given an unemployment rate of around 10 in France, Germany, and Italy with so few new jobs, becoming unemployed is a major disaster.

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,

The bonds can be sold to a worldwide market by insurance companies that incur major risks by writing policies. If the insurance companies can get a good enough price for such bonds, they can eliminate their exposure to the risk of a major disaster, thereby allowing them to issue policies to homeowners at a lower cost.

The Asian Disaster Reduction Centre is a specialized organization for disaster reduction based in Kobe, Japan.

The round table agreed that it was in the common interest of all members to address disaster management using space technology and that ESCAP should promote regional cooperative mechanisms in that field so that developing countries could have easier access to space based information and communications during major disasters and enhance their national capacity to use such tools to support disaster management.

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C. Post disaster recovery

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.

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,