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Volunteers cleaning up after last month's floods in Tblisi, Georgia. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Georgia moves on Sendai Framework

The city of Tblisi is moving to strengthen its readiness to deal with natural and technological hazards while memories of last month’s flash flooding remain fresh.

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Lots of discussion at last week's workshop in Potenza, Italy, on how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Sendai training for local governments

The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has started training programmes for local governments with a focus on developing strategies based on the priorities for action in the new Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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The scene of 10 typhoons: The Furama Five-Star Resort in Da Nang takes disaster risk management seriously. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Tourism sector embraces Sendai Framework

An industry which is literally on the front line of disaster and climate risk is emerging as a leader in efforts to strengthen resilience in one of Viet Nam’s prime tourist destinations.

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President Joko Widodo plans to launch a National Disaster Risk Reduction Movement in October (Photo: Flickr)
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Indonesian President to focus on urban resilience

The President of Indonesia, Mr. Joko Widodo, plans to launch a National Disaster Risk Reduction Movement in October this year that will include a focus on urban areas of the vast country which is exposed to a wide range of natural and man-made hazards.

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From left to right: UNISDR's Feng Min Kan and Adam Bouloukos with officials from the Thai Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Policy Bureau, Supakit Phopapapan, Deputy Director General, Kobchai Boonyaorana, Director, Chachadaporn Boonpreeranat, Director of Natural Disaster Policy Section, and Arun Pinta of the Research and International Cooperation Bureau (Photo: UNISDR)
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Thailand adopts Sendai Framework

The government of Thailand today announced details of a new five-year national disaster prevention and mitigation plan which incorporates the priorities for action of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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New Zealand is determined to factor in the lessons of the Canterbury earthquakes as it moves ahead with its implementation of the Sendai Framework.
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New Zealand strong on Sendai Framework

New Zealand has signalled its strong commitment to adopt a ‘whole of society approach’ to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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The Director of Da Nang Climate Change Coordination Office Dr Dinh Quang Cuong explains the city’s significant flood risk (Photo: UNISDR)
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Viet Nam embraces Sendai Framework call for partnership

The Sendai Framework identifies partnership with the private sector as a vital element in global efforts to reduce disaster risk. This strategic and inclusive approach is already a reality in hazard-prone Da Nang, on Viet Nam’s Central Coast.

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India's heatwave has hit vulnerable members of the public such as street children particularly hard
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India’s heatwave a lesson for Sendai Framework

India’s deadly heatwave shows that countries need to switch from disaster management to managing the risks, in line with the new Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, according to one of the country’s leading experts on development.

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Mayor Ryskul Urkalyevich Kalygulov of Karakol, Kyrgyzstan: 'The Sendai Framework is helping our city decide what needs to be done to reduce our disaster risk.' (Photo: UNISDR)
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Sendai Framework takes root in Central Asia

Those who doubt that the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction translates into a useful policy document at the grassroots level should take a trip to Karakol, in North-eastern Kyrgyzstan, and spend some time with the city’s Mayor Ryskul Urkalyevich Kalygulov.

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Over 90 representatives from 17 countries in Asia and various regional and international organizations attended this week's ISDR Asia Partnership meeting in Bangkok. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Asia meets to implement Sendai Framework

Seventeen of the world’s most disaster-prone countries are meeting this week in Bangkok to discuss how to press forward with implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction across Asia.

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