Consultation paper on promoting disaster risk management through capacity building in the OSCE area

This document reflects the outputs of the gap analysis and consultations and summarizes the activities that must be carried out in synergy to develop effective disaster risk reduction strategies in Serbia, Belarus Kyrgyzstan, selected beneficiary countries. The document was developed from survey questionnaires prepared by UNISDR and completed by the beneficiary countries to assess the gaps for capacity building. In this paper, capacity building is explained as building national disaster risk reduction strategies.