C. Follow up action by the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction system

(b) The role of the United Nations system in disaster reduction and response

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

Enabling the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction system to effectively support the implementation of the Hyogo Framework

An open and equitable trading system is of the utmost importance for economic growth and poverty reduction.

The main drivers of OFDI included system escape, the search for market and efficiency, and cost reduction.

Thus, the contribution that an efficient forest fiscal system can make to poverty reduction and economic growth is significant.

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,

Youth employment poverty reduction strategies of States and the intergovernmental system should especially focus on indigenous youth, women and men, who are among the most marginalized within the current economic system.

Youth employment poverty reduction strategies of States and the intergovernmental system should especially focus on indigenous youth, women and men, who are among the most marginalized within the current economic system.

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

The Inspectors believe that the first step towards a common payroll system would be the reduction in the number of current payroll systems.

Regarding the process of decentralization, which made the local authorities responsible for poverty reduction at the grass roots, including among rural women, she asked what system was in place to ensure that rural women actually benefited from poverty reduction policies.

The Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction invited entities of the United Nations system to attend the meeting of the Inter Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction, to be held in Geneva from 24 to 26 May 2005.

During the year, NASA initiated a redesign of the external tank for structural weight reduction, which will improving the performance of the Shuttle system.

Particular attention should be given to establishing an international early warning and threat reduction system for natural disasters and for reducing the danger they pose.

In the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, UNESCO proposed, at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, the establishment of a global tsunami early warning system, of which an Indian Ocean system would form an integral part.

States, the United Nations system and other intergovernmental organizations should ensure the participation of indigenous peoples in designing and formulation of poverty reduction strategies as well as in the implementation and monitoring processes, and should make them visible in poverty reduction strategies, programmes and activities.

Welcomes also the fact that the World Conference on Disaster Reduction will discuss the issue of a global tsunami early warning system as part of its agenda

Serving as the focal point within the United Nations system for the coordination and harmonization of policies and strategies for disaster risk reduction, encouraging synergy between the humanitarian and socio economic development policies and strategies of the United Nations system

6. Stresses that the inter agency secretariat for the Strategy should be consolidated and enhanced to perform its functions effectively, in particular to serve as the focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nations system and regional organizations and activities in socio economic and humanitarian fields

Demand reduction

Demand reduction

Demand reduction

Poverty reduction

Risk reduction

Disaster risk reduction

Drug demand reduction

Poverty Reduction Strategy

Drug demand reduction

(a) Poverty reduction

(a) Risk reduction

Debt reduction, either through stock of debt reduction or debt service reduction based on a concessional rescheduling, will continue to be considered only in exceptional cases.

The global arms reduction process should also include a reduction in non strategic nuclear arsenals.

Since the introduction and actual application of the licensing system, significant reduction of CFC consumption has been achieved in most countries due to the increasingly restricted availability of CFCs (see Table 5 below).

13. Also welcomes the launch of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, a partnership of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction system managed by the World Bank on behalf of the participating donor partners and other partnering stakeholders, as a significant initiative to support the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action

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

Sound File Noise Reduction

a Excluding arrears reduction.

National poverty reduction strategies

Reduction of military budgets

C. Reduction of hunger

Reduction of military budgets

Reduction of military budgets

A significant part of the ongoing process of liberalizing the legal and judicial system and criminal penalties in the Republic of Uzbekistan has been the steady reduction of the scope of the death penalty.