Resources
- Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters (HFA) is a global blueprint for disaster risk reduction efforts with a ten-year plan, adoped in January 2005 by 168 governments at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction.
- PreventionWeb is an information portal on disaster risk reduction (DRR) designed to assist professionals involved in the development of National DRR Platforms, and other professionals involved in the implementation of the Hyogo Frameword for Action (HFA) at the country level.
- There is a list of National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction at: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/national/list/
- Integrating disaster risk reduction into the CCA and UNDAF: a guide for UN country teams (UNDG, 2009)
- Policy, Plans & Statements from many countries and international organisations.
Brief Description
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Parties
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Objective
The ISDR aims at building disaster resilient communities by promoting increased awareness of the importance of disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable development, with the goal of reducing human, social, economic and environmental losses due to natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters.
Source: [http://www.unisdr.org/eng/about_isdr/isdr-mission-objectives-eng.htm ISDR Mission and Objectives (UN-ISDR website)
Time Window
Started: 1989, with the UN General Assembly resolution 44/236 of 22 December 1989, calling for an International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. Further resolutions can be accessed at General Assembly Resolutions and Decisions on ISDR (UN-ISDR website)
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