Ahead of Sendai: The EU's 3 priorities for disaster risk reduction
The EU’s new commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management is one of the nearly 8,000 representatives from governments, civil society, donor agencies and development organizations will converge on Sendai, Japan, this weekend with one primary goal: adopt a new framework to guide stakeholders on how to reduce disaster risks, reports Devex.
In the article, Aimee Rae Ocampo outlines the EU's priorities for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) happening on March 14-18, 2015 in Sendai, Japan.