Europe launch of the 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction

The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR11) – Revealing Risk, Redefining Development – is a major initiative of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) by monitoring risk patterns and progress in disaster risk reduction. Importantly, it provides guidance to governments and non-governmental actors, on how they can, together, reduce disaster risks.

This Report was developed in collaboration with many partners across the globe and important financial resources were contributed generously by, inter alia, the European Commission. Therefore, the Europe launch of the 2011 Global Assessment Report and the global launch of its French version took place in Brussels on June 14th, 2011.