Road to Sendai: Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

 

Its' official - the save the date announcement came out yesterday from the UNISDR for the Third World Conference on Disaster Reduction. So in case you have not seen it, here it is:

 

Dear partners,

Subject to an anticipated decision of the UN General Assembly later in 2013, the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) is to take place in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, from 14 to 18 March 2015 (five days inclusive).

Hosted by the Government of Japan in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), as secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the WCDRR will review the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and is expected to adopt a successor framework for disaster risk reduction.

The post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction will build on the knowledge and practice developed through the implementation of the International Framework for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction of 1989, the Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action of 1994, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction of 1999 and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 66/199, UNISDR will continue to ensure extensive and inclusive multi-stakeholder consultations for a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction.

Kind regards,
UNISDR

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Grassroots Community Resilience movement tracking progress of Hyogo Framework for Action

An exciting blog site to watch out for is http://www.globalnetwork-drr.blogspot.com/ Check it out to see latest updates from the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for DRR Chairman Marcus Oxley. Marcus is now in Peru facilitating the first ever training of regional Latin American organisations, to launch the massive research project tracking implementation of the Hyogo Framework at the local level in over 50 countries across the world. The Global Network is a major international network of civil society organisations implementing and influencing disaster risk reduction policy and practice. The Global Network has a diverse membership of over 600 subscribers with a range of knowledge, skills and experiences from 90 countries around the world. See http://www.unisdr.org/eng/partner-netw/ngos/rd-ngo-eng.htm for more information. There's Marcus in the photo at our April '08 Steering Committee meeting in New Delhi.