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Through the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the Conference outcome, participants requested the United Nations General Assembly to integrate into its post-2015 strategy for sustainable development seven goals to reduce risk for loss of life, livelihood and critical infrastructure from disasters, through enhanced national planning and international cooperation...
Opening the discussion, titled 'Public Investment Strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction', was its Chair, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Raed Arafat, who said the past decade had shown that governance arrangements were significantly shaping progress on disaster risk reduction...
[For] ministers and other senior officials in the third round table of the World Conference...full engagement locally and a clear articulation of responsibilities was a message conveyed by many, including Japan’s State Minister of the Cabinet Office, who said that public awareness was the first line of defence; involving the entire country, society and all communities was the second...
In speaking of both cooperation and building back better, participants stressed the need for a forward-looking perspective to build now the kind of resiliency that would be needed in the future, particularly given the knowledge of the increased severity of certain crises due to climate change and other factors...
Disaster risk reduction — the front-line defence against climate impacts — 'is in everybody’s interest, and it is everybody’s business,' Mr. Ban said, stressing that it was a smart investment for business and a wise investment in saving lives...
There would be no disaster resilience without effective decentralization, without empowering communities and without addressing social inequalities and poverty alleviation, local government representatives told a meeting there today...
The fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, which met from 19 to 23 May, helped lay the groundwork for the post-2015 development agenda, which highlights resilience to disaster and climate change...
The global consequences of disasters, and the need for strengthening resilience through partnerships and investment, were stressed at the opening ceremony of the fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Geneva this morning...
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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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