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Delegates at this week’s 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction called for immediately starting work on developing targets and indicators to monitor the reduction of risk, ahead of the 2015 conference, to be held in the Japanese city of Sendai...
Mr. Eliasson said that building resilience to disasters and making communities safer is 'our collective and shared responsibility,' adding that his visit to Japan earlier this year was a lesson on the urgency of reducing the risks for disasters...
'First and foremost, Governments must invest in prevention and preparedness – it is far more effective and less costly than recovery efforts,' said the Executive Secretary of Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Noeleen Heyzer, at the Commission’s Ministerial Roundtable on Building Resilience to Natural Disasters and Major Economic Crises...
'A shocking absence of enforced building construction standards, a sharp rise in urban poverty, and the growing and unchecked impact of climate change are among other factors that must make us even more determined to act decisively,' Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, President of the Royal Scientific Society and co-host of the conference, said in her opening statement...
'Prevention must be our priority,' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his video message to the opening of the High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policy in Geneva. 'No single nation can insulate itself from global shocks. The only way to respond is through cooperation – between countries and among civil society, government and business'...
'Preparing for the worst can save lives. That is why we need early warning systems, disaster education and resilient structures,' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his remarks to the Special Thematic Session of the General Assembly on Water and Disasters...
'We talk a lot about infrastructure, but at the centre of all this is the people factor, and the way people live through a disaster will also impact their perception of the next disaster. Every disaster is an opportunity to improve the preparedness for the next one'...
'The United Nations is working closely with national authorities, donors and emergency organizations to ensure the strongest possible support for national efforts to see to their needs today and to strengthen disaster risk reduction for the future,' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said...
Voluntary Commitments
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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.