There is an evolutionary approach from response and relief to disaster risk reduction.

The risk is that this approach is incomplete and thus unlikely to be effective.

This approach implies that more can be done to reduce systemic risk, beyond reforming how risk is measured and capital buffers determined.

Many millions of adolescents are at risk and vulnerable to HIV infection as they approach adulthood.

The Muslim Brotherhood s leadership, for its part, usually takes a risk averse, gradualist approach to crisis management.

A risk management approach can make significant contributions to defining and implementing government policies in this area.

(1) Strengthening the Regional Capacity for Disasters Reduction through the Integration of Risk Management Approach

Many millions of adolescents are at risk and vulnerable to HIV infection as they approach adulthood and sexual maturity.

The connection between financial risk and asset price swings emerges from the use of a new approach Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE) to understanding risk and fluctuations in asset markets.

The European Union s approach to bank regulation encouraged financial institutions to load up on government debt supposedly a risk free asset.

The Task Force created the Working Group on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, co chaired by UNDP and WMO, to focus on the promotion of an integrated approach to climate risk.

As in finance, ensuring that the originator of a risk pays the cost seems to be the most sensible approach.

The approach commonly used in risk assessment is to fit a linear dose response relationship to the data, a procedure that is usually considered to give an upper limit to the risk at low doses.

The proposed Basel III regulations set wholly insufficient minimum capital requirements and maintain a failed approach to adjusting the requirements to risk.

But there is a risk that this approach could understate the Japanese disaster s domestic and international consequences.

Such an approach would, moreover, establish the need that there must be a tangible risk involved for the Convention to apply.

Similarly, Mexico s tiered approach to financial access according to which requirements for opening bank accounts are proportionate to risk, with low value accounts subject to higher transaction restrictions has expanded access to basic accounts, while mitigating the risk of money laundering.

Advocates of the one share one vote approach view any deviation from this approach as an undesirable distortion of the connection between investment risk and the decision making process.

That geographical approach, in our view, runs the risk of over representation of some regions and underrepresentation of others.

The integrated risk and return management method is a practical approach that should be adopted by any pension fund.

Risk management entails moving away from a technology centred treatment of information security towards adopting a more holistic approach.

(a) Focusing on integration of the various elements of care within a primary health care approach, with special emphasis on reduction of risk factors and management of high risk groups

The review stresses the importance of disaster risk reduction being underpinned by a more pro active approach to informing, motivating and involving people in all aspects of disaster risk reduction in their own local communities.

(g) Create an oversight position of chief of operations, information technology and risk to seek the benefits that obtain to an interwoven approach in those areas.

The basic approach in risk management has been to justify activities or practices by the benefits provided and to do all that is reasonable to reduce the risks.

Such an approach would reduce the risk of debt deflation, while capping inflation expectations to prevent a damaging surge in prices as recovery takes hold.

The classic approach of biomedical ethics is to weigh the benefits for the patient against the risk of the intervention, and to respect the patient s autonomous decisions.

Such programmes are important however, an integrated approach is needed to tackle the impact of gender inequality, while at the same time to reach specific risk groups.

The Special Rapporteur underlined the need to apply an integrated approach to tackle the impact of gender inequality, while at the same time reaching specific risk groups.

Such an approach should include assistance in mapping hazards and risks and the formulation and or revision of risk reduction measures.

There are, no doubt, competitive and other consequences to adopting a more conservative approach that factors in periodic systemic risk, and they will vary across institutions.

Key initiatives in the pipeline include the multi layered approach to formalizing risk management in UNDP as part of its organizational culture in 2006 (paragraph 54).

It reflects their intention to take a holistic approach in identifying and putting into action complex multidisciplinary disaster risk reduction measures over the next 10 years.

Also, the Office of Audit and Performance Review has been reviewing its audit planning methodology with a view to adopting a more formal risk based approach.

To address concerns, UNOPS had adopted a risk management approach to option 1 by reducing the cost base and ensuring that major costs were factored into project budgets.

The seemingly objective top down approach ignores the idiosyncratic nature of risk and assumes that one mortgage loan is like the next.

A reformulated approach to care, support and treatment will aim to promote the synergy between PMTCT and treatment regimes and reduce the risk of parallel efforts in service delivery.

There's another risk, and they respond less to this existing risk.

Treatment alternatives to imprisonment for persons arrested for offences involving drug possession were also mentioned as an effective approach to reducing the risk of HIV infection and continued drug abuse.

But, without a broadly consistent approach, the authorities risk creating a legal patchwork that would make cross border banking less efficient, more expensive, and more difficult to conduct.

One of the unique advantages is that it permits a multi hazard approach to tackle disasters in terms of hazard zonation, risk assessment, monitoring and appropriate relief planning.

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An increasingly coordinated approach to child protection across sectors is yielding positive results, for example, by including mine risk education in school curricula and training teachers to address violence in schools.

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