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Global Platform



The goal of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, as the main body of the strengthened ISDR system, is to sustain world-wide momentum to build the resilience of nations and communities to disasters¹.

 

The Global Platform provides the main global forum for representatives of governments 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. Enhance global awareness of disaster risk reduction.
  • 3. Share experiences among countries and learn from good practice.
  • 4. Identify remaining gaps and actions needed to accelerate national and local implementation of the Hyogo Framework.

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. John Holmes, chairs the Global Platform. The Global Platform meets every two years. The first session was held in June 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.

 


¹: See General Assembly resolution A/C.2/62/L.42, paragraph 15 (3 December 2007).