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UN-Habitat Jordan held a workshop last week to launch the flood risk assessment and hazard mapping study as well as the proposed flood intervention.
Talking about the first Arab Regional Conference on DRR Margareta Wahlstrom, special representative of the UN secretary general for DDR said 'The timing could not be better as we are looking forward to the Arab region making a significant contribution towards revising and renewing the existing framework for DRR, the Hyogo Framework for Action'...
'Arab states not only share a common language, culture and historic heritage but also a number of regional and trans-boundary risks', says Raed Omari referring to the recent 'Arab Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ASDRR) 2020', released at the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction last week...
'Jordan is among the few regional countries to have a systematic data on disaster losses and [..] to hand over reports to the UNISDR on the mechanism, plans and strategies [..] set up to reduce disaster risk” said Andrew Maskrey, Coordinator of the Global Assessment Report in an interview with the Jordan Times at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction...
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