Risk reduction

Disaster risk reduction

Corruption risk reduction

Opacity risk reduction

Integrating risk reduction into recovery

Measures to support risk reduction

Investing in preparedness and risk reduction

Establishment of risk reduction (conflict prevention) centres

Risk reduction, therefore, entails reducing vulnerability to hazards.

Integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Some multilateral developments related to disaster risk reduction

Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer world

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

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

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.

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

Romney has provided few details about his deficit reduction plan.

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.

The secretariat is constituted of representatives of relevant ministries and institutions, which are in the process of preparing a 10 year plan of action to achieve disaster risk reduction.

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

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

109. In his report, the representative of the Secretary General stated that, under the revised plan, quot the Fund would benefit from a substantial reduction of risk in the following areas

(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.

Both President Barack Obama s plan for business tax reform and the Simpson Bowles deficit reduction plan propose reducing such expenditures to pay for a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

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

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

In Asia, Governments are building greater commitments to disaster risk reduction through several mechanisms.

Risk reduction Knowledge and information Governance Capacity building and technical cooperation Illegal international traffic.

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

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.

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.

We recognize that the international community has accumulated much experience with disaster risk reduction through the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and the succeeding International Strategy for Disaster 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.

A risk mitigation plan is determined for each identified performance risk and time, cost, and responsibility is determined and documented.

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

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.

As a participant in the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, IFRC viewed risk and vulnerability reduction not as a cost, but as an investment.