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WHO joined the international community in celebrating International Youth Day 2011 under the theme Change the World, 'children and young people have a vital role to play when building community resilience and should be involved in planning for, responding to and recovering from natural disasters'...
World Health Organization (WHO)
'Women and young women play a major role in times of disaster. They are the ones often responsible for managing disaster preparedness in the home and community,' said Uha Fifita, from the Rainbow Women’s Network...
Scoop Media Ltd
According to Kelly Hawrylyshyn, DRR advisor at Plan UK, disaster risk reduction has been granted the headlines it deserves through the International Day for Disaster Reduction...
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
'The theme this year is Making Youth Partners for Disaster Risk Reduction... which underscores the importance of redefining our disaster management approach, to embrace contributions from children through partnerships that can be forged with them'...
SKNVibes, Inc.
As part of the activities related to the International Day for Disaster Reduction, UNDP 'Strengthening of National Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction Capacities' project developed and will publish a book of photo stories...
United Nations Development Programme - Armenia
'The International Day for Disaster Reduction reinforces the importance for all Canadians to take action to reduce their risk to disasters. We all have a role to play in disaster reduction and building community resiliency'...
Government of Canada
'A focus on children can help create a sense of urgency around the need to analyse and address hazards and risks, as well as provide a long-term perspective as children grow up,' says John Abuya, ActionAid’s expert on Disaster Risk Reduction....
ActionAid International
PAHO/WHO recognizes and values the important role played by theses students in disaster risk reduction, mitigation and disaster preparedness in communities, and so it joins in the global celebration of the International Day for Disaster Reduction...
Pan American Health Organization
The UNISDR Sub-Regional Office in Suva together with its partners, held a Pacific regional celebration of the International Day for Disaster Reduction to highlight the role of children and youth as active partners in disaster risk reduction.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific
Some of the biggest media houses in the world from the Times of India to the Philippines Daily Inquirer to Caracol Television in Colombia have now participated in media training on disaster risk reduction organized by UNISDR, the United Nations office for disaster reduction, with the support of ECHO, the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid branch.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States

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