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Displaying 4 of about 4 resultsThe South Africa National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction under the National Disaster Management Center and UNISDR Regional Office for Africa are organizing an awareness symposium on the theme of the UNISDR global campaign 2008/09 "Hospitals Safe from Disasters" in South Africa to mark the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction 2009.
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This issue includes:
- From the Editor: an abortive debate
- Partners in Action
- UN/ISDR Africa in Action
- Disaster Reduction in Africa
- Views & Reviews
- ISDR National Platforms in Action
This note reports on examples of recent experience in eight countries where national and local governments and civil society participants have worked to strengthen their disaster risk reduction and adaptation actions. These cases, along with similar experience in other countries, provide a number of useful insights and lessons for climate change negotia…
To address the complexity of disaster risk reduction (DRR), governments collectively called for the establishment of multi-stakeholders platforms for DRR through UN resolutions, including; ECOSOC resolution 1999/63 in 1999, UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/59/231 in 2005 and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015(HFA) adopted in 2005.
In response…