United Nations Sasakawa Award Ceremony
Date & Time:
Wednesday 22 May (18:30-19:15)
Room:
Room 2
Participation:
Open
Organizer:
UNISDR
Description
The Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction recognizes excellence in innovation, outreach, and collaboration to improve the resilience of nations and communities to disasters. The winner for this year's competition is the individual or institution that has carried out outstanding and internationally recognized action around the theme for 2013, "Acting As One," which brings home the message that disaster risk reduction is everybody's business.
All participants are welcome to attend to this high-profile event, which will be followed by a reception.
