Chair’s summary third session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction and the World Reconstruction Conference

This summary provides the Chair’s assessment of the main points of the deliberations at the Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in Geneva, Switzerland from 8-13 May 2011.

The Chair`s Summary reflects interventions at the Joint Outcomes Session of the Global Platform on 13 May and subsequent comments on the draft which was open until 23 May. The UNISDR secretariat has endeavoured to reflect most of the comments while at the same time respecting the need to keep the Summary succinct and action orientated.