Inter-Agency Task Force Working Groups 2004-2005

Three of the working groups (WG) established in 2000 - WG1 on Climate; WG2 on Early Warning; WG4 Wildland fire – came to a close in 2003, developing into other specific programmes or networks, which will continue to inform the Task Force on their progress.

WG3 on Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster Impact Assessment, chaired by UNDP, continues active throughout 2004 and will present its results in sessions at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, January 2005.

In addition, the Task Force appointed a limited number of new working groups, which will be functioning in 2004-2005:

• Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction (co-chaired by UNDP and WMO);
  
• Disaster Reduction in Africa (co-chaired by AU and NEPAD secretariat): and
  
• WCDR preparations (convened by the ISDR secretariat).