Safety of operations, emergency response and contingency planning

4. Recognizes the effort of the White Helmets model in helping to involve stricken populations or those at risk in the tasks of planning, training, mobilizing and providing immediate response in disaster situations

So, response planning in the twenty first century is both possible and is essential.

This is the case when efforts are made to support local and national recovery processes at an early stage when risk reduction considerations are factored into all response and recovery activities including reconstruction planning and when the synergies between development, humanitarian and other actors involved in the response phase are properly captured.

3. Calls for a more effective integration of disaster risk reduction into sustainable development policies, planning and programming for the development and strengthening of institutions, mechanisms and capacities to build resilience to hazards and for a systematic incorporation of risk reduction approaches into the implementation of emergency preparedness, response and recovery programmes

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

The overall goal of UNOSAT is to facilitate physical planning and programme implementation by local authorities, project managers and field personnel working in emergency response, disaster management, risk prevention, peacekeeping, environmental rehabilitation, post conflict reconstruction and social and economic development.

WFP continued its engagement in preparedness for humanitarian response, with contingency planning covering more than 30 countries.

Many of the global and regional assessments are therefore at risk of non response bias.

Preparedness planning for all disasters and emergencies involves national civil defence, emergency response organizations and various government departments.

Decision support systems were being developed to provide risk assessment and management planning to minimize losses caused by insects.

Recovery priorities workshops and sectoral round tables served to ensure the inclusion of risk reduction in sectoral recovery planning.

Disaster risk mitigation and preparedness are integral to the planning of human settlements in countries prone to natural disasters.

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

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

Risk intensity and response capacity will be separately analysed and the results will be linked to the vulnerability intensity.

Global initiatives are supporting the development of tools and guidelines to facilitate the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction into development planning frameworks.

The working group was planning to prepare guidelines on auditing and technical notes on risk assessment during the second quarter of 2005.

UNICEF agrees to review the guidance on emergency preparedness and response planning to ensure that critical areas have been covered in sufficient detail.

To contain the risk of future outbreaks, greater resources should also be given to the WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network so that it can coordinate the response of a broad international partnership in support of national health surveillance and response systems.

3. Welcomes the progress made in the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, and stresses the need for a more effective integration of disaster risk reduction into sustainable development policies, planning and programming for the development and strengthening of institutions, mechanisms and capacities to build resilience to hazards and for a systematic incorporation of risk reduction approaches into the implementation of emergency preparedness, response and recovery programmes

The vulnerability of slum dwellers should be reduced through the promotion of land use planning policies aimed at environmental sustainability and risk reduction.

Its next annual conference, to be held in Seoul in March 2006, will address issues related to the institutional basis for disaster risk reduction, recovery and risk communication, in response to the Hyogo Framework.

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,

The Government participates in a coordinated national network involved in emergency planning, training and response, and coordination lead by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

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.

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

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

Vulnerability components, risk intensity and response capacity, with their particular indicators, form the basis for the integral assessment of land degradation and poverty.

Such a system would enable countries at risk to exchange information on disaster forecasts and to undertake a joint response to natural disasters.

Comprehensive people oriented early warning strategies were also needed in order to alert the risk population in time and improve their response capacity.

Having put in place all feasible risk mitigation options, risk management moves towards finding ways to reduce the severity of potential loss and damage and often implies establishing safety and emergency response teams, technologies and procedures.

In Nepal where improvised explosive devices presented the main threat, it was working closely with the inter agency framework for mine action planning and rapid response.

13. Notes that the Central Register of Disaster Management Capacities, including the Directory of Advanced Technologies for Disaster Response, has the potential to support planning preparedness and response activities, and requests the Secretary General to propose options to enhance its relevance

Also, the Office of Audit and Performance Review has been reviewing its audit planning methodology with a view to adopting a more formal risk based approach.

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

Kuwait's risk assessment uses low , central , and high values for four input variables (background mortality, population, exposure concentration and concentration response coefficient) to characterize uncertainty.

UNICEF will strengthen results based planning, monitoring and management in the United Nations wide response to HIV AIDS by participating in the Reference Group on Monitoring and Evaluation.

ICRC's approach was to analyse the specific needs of women and integrate them into operational planning and strategies, and to develop specific programmes in response to those needs.

2004 saw the completion of the IASC Policy Package on Implementing the Collaborative Response to Situations of Internal Displacement, which will clarify and accelerate consultation and planning and contribute to a more effective and timely response to the assistance and protection needs of IDPs.

The secretariat's activities relating to adaptation and the implementation of the Buenos Aires programme of work on adaptation and response measures, including impacts, vulnerability assessments, systematic observation, adaptation planning and response measures, which are presently coordinated across different programmes, will be consolidated in one programme.

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,

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,

When executed properly, decentralization should lead to the creation of technical capacity at the district level for decision making, planning and timely response to local epidemiological and ecological changes.