Regional Organizations & Platforms

The below lists recent regional disaster risk reduction strategies and plans of action. For more information about regional platforms and update-to-date events, meetings and documents, visit PreventionWeb.

Regional Platform for DRR for The Americas

In November 2012, key actors in disaster risk reduction (DRR) from North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean gathered in Santiago, Chile for the Third Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction of the Americas. During the Regional Platform, the Communiqué of Santiago de Chile on Investing in Resilience: Accelerating the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the Americas was endorsed.

Arab Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

The 1st Arab Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) took place from 19-21 March 2013 in Aqaba, Jordan and was a forum for politicians, policy makers, planners, academia and development experts to discuss issues and challenges facing the region with regard to DRR. It was co-organized by UNISDR, UNDP, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, the Swiss Development Cooperation and the League of Arab States.

Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

The 5th conference took place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in October 2012 to address topics that included: Integrating local level disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into national development planning; Local risk assessment and financing; and Strengthening local risk governance and partnership. The outcome of the event included the Yogyakarta declaration on DRR endorsed by Heads of Government, Ministers, and Heads of Delegation of countries in Asia and the Pacific

Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Over 250 participants from 45 African countries and partners gathered in Arusha, Tanzania, from 13-15 February 2013 for the 4th Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Facilitated by UNISDR, the Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction functions as the primary regional mechanism to support the implementation of disaster risk reduction strategies and programmes at regional, sub-regional and national levels, to monitor their progress and to facilitate coordination and information-sharing.

European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction

The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction facilitates discussion and advances on disaster risk reduction issues in a coordinated fashion at the regional level. The European Forum includes: HFA Focal Points and representatives of National Platforms in the European region, UNISDR-Europe, regional organizations, in particular representatives from the Council of Europe EUROPA, and representatives from the European Commission, Civil Protection - Prevention & Preparedness Unit DG ECHO, and sub-regional organizations/institutions as agreed by the forum.

Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management, 9-13 August 2010

A key outcome document from the 2010 Platform was adopted with recommendations for enhancing the implementation of the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Framework for Action 2005-2015. The Pacific Platform was formally endorsed in October 2008 by the SOPAC Governing Council and seeks to harmonise existing regional mechanisms for DRM and serve as the link between Pacific Island Countries and the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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