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The document assists in facilitating and supporting efforts by governments, local authorities, international organizations, and multilateral financial and trade institutions to invest in reducing disaster risk and to promote sustainable development policies that will create better opportunities for all.
This speci…
A/CONF.172/9:
The report of the World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, held in Yokohama, Japan 23-27 May 1994 includes the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation, the Principles, the Strategy and the Plan of Action. It also includes the resolutions and decision adopted by t…
This report gives a summary of the meeting, as well as recommendations to integrate disaster management and risk reduction as a part of the development agenda, through disaster risk reduction training and capacity building, and comprehensive disaster risk reduction planning processes and frameworks at national and local level.
Based on the communalitie…
With the aim of guiding the implementation of the Hyogo Framework Framework (HFA) in respect to drought, this document elaborates a framework for understanding drought and vulnerability to drought, and provides guidance on actions to reduce the risks associated with drought. It discusses drought policy and governance, risk identification and early warni…
Risk and poverty in a changing climate:
The Report is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in the context of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). The ISDR, launched in 2000, provides a framework to coordinate actions to address disaster risks at the local, national, regional and international lev…
Risk and poverty in a changing climate:
This summary presents the key findings and recommendations of the Report, which identifies disaster risk, analyses its causes, shows that these causes can be addressed and recommends the means to do so. The over-riding message of the Report is that reducing disaster risk can also help in reducing poverty, safegua…