Risk reduction

Disaster risk reduction

Corruption risk reduction

Opacity risk reduction

Establishment of risk reduction (conflict prevention) centres

Integrating risk reduction into recovery

Measures to support risk reduction

Investing in preparedness and risk reduction

Risk reduction, therefore, entails reducing vulnerability to hazards.

Integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Some multilateral developments related to disaster risk reduction

The secretariat of ISDR uses satellite imagery in disaster risk reduction.

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Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer future

Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer future

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Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer future

Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer future

Their actions typically fall into the risk mitigation or loss severity reduction phases of the risk management process.

New developments include partnerships in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to promote disaster risk reduction and to design subregional common policies on disaster risk reduction.

More relevant to the Peacebuilding Commission, however, is the issue of risk reduction.

In support of this, UNDP will deploy national disaster risk reduction advisers to assist national efforts in capacity building for disaster risk reduction in 20 of the most disaster prone countries of the world.

General statements Indian Ocean Disaster risk reduction for a safer future

We reaffirm the vital role of the United Nations system in disaster risk reduction.

Current uses of space based services to support risk reduction and disaster management activities

(c) Promote and improve dialogue and cooperation among scientific communities and practitioners working on disaster risk reduction, and encourage partnerships among stakeholders, including those working on the socioeconomic dimensions of disaster risk reduction.

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.

There was further debate on disaster risk reduction in an urban context.

(c) Adopt, or modify where necessary, legislation to support disaster risk reduction, including regulations and mechanisms that encourage compliance and that promote incentives for undertaking risk reduction and mitigation activities.

Emphasizing also the importance of integrating risk reduction into development planning and post disaster recovery,

Ethics management is important to the promotion of good business practices, transparency and risk reduction.

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

In the aftermath of the 2004 hurricanes, the Government of Grenada issued a disaster reduction policy that introduced risk reduction into the whole recovery process.

Some progress is being made towards overcoming vulnerability to natural hazards by integrating disaster reduction measures into development strategies. Those efforts involve linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, as well as ensuring that implementation of the Millennium Development Goals supports disaster risk reduction.

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

Recognizing that disaster risk reduction is a cross cutting issue in the context of sustainable development,

(d) Disaster risk reduction diminishes the need for humanitarian emergency interventions in the aftermath of disasters

It is a vehicle for strengthening the financing of and support to disaster risk reduction globally.

Sustainable disaster risk reduction needs to become an integral component of environmental, economic and social development.

Recognizing that disaster risk reduction is a cross cutting issue in the context of sustainable development,

Recognizing that disaster risk reduction is a cross cutting issue in the context of sustainable development,

Most important, States should also conceive mechanisms that allow bottom up disaster risk reduction initiatives, originating at the community level and contributing to the shaping of disaster risk reduction policy and programmes at the national level.

In an effort to enhance synergy between the NAPA process and efforts towards disaster risk reduction, the Chair of the LEG participated in a video conference of the Interagency Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction during SBI 22.

The ProVention Consortium is developing a set of disaster risk reduction mainstreaming tools, addressing the process of poverty reduction strategy papers, budgetary support and country strategy papers.

This creates a risk that poverty reduction strategies aimed at these peoples will fail.