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Displaying 15 of about 22 resultsThe Stakeholder Forum aims at providing a space for stakeholders to coordinate and exchange best practices around inclusion, collaboration and engagement in preparation for the official sessions of the Global Platform. Discussions will focus on ways to ensure effective collaboration and how the newly-launched UNDRR Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism will…
To promote and support the availability and application of science and technology to decision-making in Disaster Risk Reduction
The conference will bring together the full diversity of the science and technology community, policy makers, practitioners and researchers from all geographical regions, at local, national, regional and international levels t…
Through resolution 66/199 (2011) and resolution 67/209 (2012), the General Assembly requested UNISDR to facilitate the development of a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction and to serve as the secretariat of the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. A milestone global consultation took place at the Fourth Global Plat…
This meeting includes a half-day workshop on the Mid-Term Review Key Questions and a half-day thematic discussion on how the international system can further its support for the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
Goal: The Global Meeting of National Platforms Focal Points aims to contribute to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action through support to multi-stakeholder National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Specific Objectives
1. Provide a forum for National Platforms and selected HFA focal points to share information and knowledge in coordinating nati…
The Third (and final) formal session of the Open-ended intergovernmental expert working group (OIEWG) on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction will be held in Geneva at the Palais des Nations in Room (XIX) on Tuesday, 15 November and Friday, 18 November. Informal sessions will be held on Monday, 14 November, Wednesday, 16 Novemb…
Introduction:
In its resolution 69/284 of 3 June 2015, the General Assembly established an open-ended intergovernmental expert working group (OIEWG) on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction to develop indicators to measure global progress on the seven agreed targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.…
Meeting Objectives:
1. Provide views on the SRSGs paper Proposed Elements for Consideration in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, with a focused discussion on the enhanced system for monitoring progress.
2. Identify modalities for UN engagement in the preparations for and at the WCDRR.
3. Define areas where UN commitments will be sh…
The Global Platform provides the main global forum for representatives of governments and other stakeholders - UN agencies, regional bodies, international financial institutions, civil society, the private sector and the scientific and academic communities – to:
1. Assess progress made in implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
2. Enha…
The UNDRR Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) has been called upon by the Sendai Framework as an essential global partnership group providing technical advice and support in the formulation and implementation of disaster risk reduction activities worldwide.
Key objectives of their event are as follows:
To share and review progress i…
The second formal session of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group will be held in Geneva, Switzerland on 10-11 February 2016, and will be preceded by an informal session on 9 February. Sessions will be held in Room XVIII in the Palais des Nations.
Introduction:
Upon adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-203…
Overview
Every year, the Periperi U Consortium meets to discuss progress in strengthening applied disaster risk scholarship in Africa. In 2013, this event has been reframed to coincide with the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, and will be convened in Geneva on 24 May.
The 2013 Periperi U Seminar will be hosted by the Technical University o…
Open informal session of the United Nations Inter-Agency Meeting on Outer Space Activities
Towards the fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
This event is an interactive forum for Governments, national authorities, United Nations system entities, private sector and civil society to examine how space-based-technology applica…
Context
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (launched by UN General Assembly in 2000) and the adoption by States of the “Hyogo Framework for Action 2010-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters” (HFA) has provided strong impetus to the overall goal to ‘substantially reduce disaster losses in the social, econom…
In Commemoration of the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR)
Friday October 19th, 2018, 13:30 to 15:00
Room XXV (Building E), Palais des Nations
Programme
12.30 Lunch and drinks provided by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea at Escargot Bar (3rd Floor, Building E)
13:30 Welcoming remarks by Her Excellency Mrs. Ji-ah Paik, A…