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Daily report of the Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction - Thursday 12 May 2011
Global Platform highlights from Thursday, 12 May 2011. Issue #5, Volume 141, Number 5
On Thursday, participants met in a plenary on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation, followed by general plenary statements in morning and afternoon sessions. An informal plenary on the implementation of the outcomes of the Mid-term Review of the Hyogo Framework of Action (HPA) continued for a second day as well as a number of roundtables on managing watersheds, children for resilience, DRR and gender, DRR safety nets and mountains of risk. Winners of the UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction were announced in an evening ceremony.
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