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In January 2005, 168 Governments adopted the Hyogo Framework for Action: Building resilience of nations and communities to disasters. This 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards was developed and adopted at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan and subsequently endorsed by the UN General As…
The Arab region joins the rest of the world in facing an increase in natural hazards. The region is characterized by its harsh environment and has limited resilience to natural hazards events, which results in an increase in the number of natural disasters in the region. These disasters result from a group of factors including the increase in population…
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Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Secretariat of the In…
CAIRO, 23 May 2012 – A regional meeting of experts held in Cairo could result in a doubling of the number of Arab countries that systematically report on disaster losses.
UNISDR brought together over 40 participants from 15 Arab countries to discuss and exchange experiences on establishing national disaster loss databases. These disaster inventories (…
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable countries, communities and individuals increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human, economic and social losses. A range of United Nations o…