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The Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, and the Mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, officially marked their cities’ participation in the United Nations World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Making Cities Resilient – My City is Getting Ready!” The Mayor of Milan, too, has officially declared her willingness to join the campaign. By joining, participating mayors an…
The 13th of October is the International Day for Disaster Reduction. To mark the Day which also coincides with the Tenth anniversary of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), the UNISDR secretariat will call on all its partners to play a more active role to protect cities against disasters and encourage more mayors and citizens to joi…
This round table will take place on the first day of the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE Region (1-2 March 2018). Please register for the Regional Forum to attend. Round table overview Achieving long-term sustainability of cities and communities, ensuring they are resilient, connected; institutionally-, spatially- and socially…
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…
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…
In person
01 November 2011 - 02 November 2011
Geneva
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…
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), the World Bank Disaster Risk Management Regional Coordinator East Asia Pacific (EAP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), kindly invite you to the Geneva launch of the World Bank’s publication: Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for…
The Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction aims to continue the momentum into a durable and sustained effort from all actors - governments, NGOs and civil society, international agencies and organizations, academic and technical institutions, and the private sector - to take shared responsibility in reducing risks and reinforc…
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP), which takes place every two years, is the global forum for accelerating world-wide momentum on disaster risk reduction. As the primary gathering for the world’s disaster risk community, it brings together Governments, UN, international regional organizations and institutions, NGOs, scientific/academi…

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