Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into the Millennium Development Goals:
Review of activities up to the present
ActionAid and UNISDR commissioned a review to promote the integration of disaster risk reduction with the Millennium Development Goals. A matrix identifies the eight MDGs and their related Targets and correlates each of these with the five Priorities for Action of the HFA and their subsidiary Key Activities. The matrix will have for practitioners and policy makers alike to comment on and to contribute examples of best (and worse) practice.
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Professor Yoshiaki Kawata from the Disaster Prevention Research Institute in Japan, and Tony Gibbs, a highly respected Caribbean engineer in building safety, have been selected as the two 2007 Sasakawa Laureates.
ISDR new publications
Acting with Common Purpose - Proceedings of the first session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
This report of the proceedings of the first session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in Geneva, 5-7 June 2007 captures discussions of the high level dialogue; the outcome of the workshops; and the conclusions of the multi-stakeholder deliberations on progress in implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and identification of priorities for the ISDR system for 2008-2009.
Further information is also available on the web pages of the Global Platform.
Revised Version of Words Into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework
The Guide provides advice for Government authorities and other organizations on useful strategies for implementing the HFA. The Guide could also help states to assess where they stand in the implementation process and, by building on existing experience and structure, to identify possible gaps and useful next steps to take.
Middle East and North Africa Regional Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction
and Natural Hazard Risk Management
Cairo 18-21 April 2007
The Cairo Regional Workshop, jointly organized by the UN/ISDR and the World Bank, and with the kind support of the Government of Arab Republic of Egypt, has been held with the participation of 72 professionals from the governments, regional and international organizations as well as academia, more information
An on-line game to teach children how to save lives and livelihoods
The secretariat of the UN International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction launches an on-line game aimed
at teaching children how to build safer villages and cities against
disasters.
This initiative comes within the 2006-2007 World Disaster Reduction
Campaign “Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School”.
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Better Terms: A Glance at Key Climate Change and Disaster
Risk Reduction Concepts Consultation version
This pocket-sized booklet clarifies a few terms that both the climate change
and disaster risk reduction disciplines use but often use differently, so as
to avoid possible sources of confusion. The booklet is accompanied by a CD-ROM
providing glossaries and sources of conceptual work for climate change adaptation
and disaster reduction. This edition is a product of the Working Group on Climate
Change and Disaster Risk Reduction of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster
Reduction (IATF/DR) led by UNDP, IDS and the ISDR secretariat.
An assessment of capacities, gaps and opportunities toward building a comprehensive
global early warning system for all natural hazards, is now on-line available.
