Extract from the final report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (A/CONF.206/6):
The WCDR was held from 18 to 22 January 2005 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and adopted the present Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. The Conference provided a unique opportunity to promote a strategic and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities and risks to hazards. It underscored the need for, and identified ways of, building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.
The Hyogo Framework for Action addresses:
- Challenges posed by disasters
- The Yokohama Strategy: lessons learned and gaps identified
- WCDR: Objectives, expected outcome and strategic goals
- Priorities for action 2005-2015
- Implementation and follow-up
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- View the Framework within the report of the Conference , English
- View the Framework within the report of the Conference (in French) , English
- View the Framework within the report of the Conference (in Spanish) , English
- View the Framework within the report of the Conference (in Chinese) , French
- View the Framework within the report of the Conference (in Arabic) , English
- View the Framework within the report of the Conference (in Russian) , Spanish
Editors' recommendations
- World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) website
- Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters - brochure
- World Conference on Disaster Reduction: proceedings of the conference
- Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters - summary
- Towards a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction website
- Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters non-official language translations (in Farsi and Japanese)
- More about words into action disaster displacement
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