Measures to support risk reduction

Risk reduction

Disaster risk reduction

(a) Risk reduction

Integrating risk reduction into recovery

Recognizing further that certain measures for disaster risk reduction in the context of the Hyogo Framework for Action can also support adaptation to climate change, and emphasizing the importance of strengthening the resilience of nations and communities to natural disasters through disaster risk reduction programmes,

Risk reduction, therefore, entails reducing vulnerability to hazards.

Integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

It reflects their intention to take a holistic approach in identifying and putting into action complex multidisciplinary disaster risk reduction measures over the next 10 years.

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.

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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.

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.

The measures were grouped in accordance with the categories of objectives established for the overarching policy strategy risk reduction knowledge and information governance capacity building and illegal international traffic.

To ensure the sustained effective implementation of such measures, it is important that disaster risk reduction initiatives build on the development needs and initiatives generated at the local level.

Their actions typically fall into the risk mitigation or loss severity reduction phases of the risk management process.

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

The World Conference on Disaster Reduction, which began today in Kobe, Japan, provides an opportunity for all Member States to identify measures to guard against the risk of natural disasters.

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.

Emergency relief must be built into national programmes of preparedness and risk reduction.

Under the risk reduction category, concrete measures aimed at protecting human health and the environment would include the development of action plans to address priority concerns in relation to groups with specific vulnerabilities.

One participant underscored the need to establish ways to communicate the implementation of adaptation measures and risk reduction to insurance companies in order to see these actions reflected in insurance premiums and conditions.

Several countries, including Bangladesh, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mauritius and Uganda, have incorporated disaster risk reduction measures into their CCAs and UNDAFs, elaborated with the assistance of United Nations country teams.

Recalling the International Strategy For Disaster Reduction, and in this regard underlining the importance of efforts aimed at strengthening early warning, prevention and preparedness mechanisms for natural disasters and measures to strengthen capacity building at the local, national and regional levels, with an emphasis on 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.

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.

This creates a risk that poverty reduction strategies aimed at these peoples will fail.

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.

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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,

As a participant in the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, IFRC viewed risk and vulnerability reduction not as a cost, but as an investment.

In addition, with regard to resource mobilization, States agreed to mainstream disaster risk reduction measures appropriately into multilateral and bilateral development assistance programmes, including those related to poverty reduction, natural resource management, urban development and adaptation to climate change (see A CONF.206 6, chap. I, resolution 2).

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,

Ethics management is important to the promotion of good business practices, transparency and risk reduction.

(1) Strengthening the Regional Capacity for Disasters Reduction through the Integration of Risk Management Approach

In the aftermath of the 2004 hurricanes, the Government of Grenada issued a disaster reduction policy that introduced risk reduction into the whole recovery process.

Reducing the number of new infections by properly informing the general public, integrating information on healthy sexual practices into school health policy, prevention programmes aimed at the highest risk groups, hygiene measures, screening pregnant women, screening donor blood, and harm reduction measures such as needle exchange programmes.

Underlining the importance of efforts aimed at strengthening early warning, prevention and preparedness mechanisms for natural disasters and measures to strengthen capacity building at the local, national and regional levels, with an emphasis on risk reduction,

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.