Community based disaster risk reduction regional consultative meeting, West Asia, Middle East and North Africa region: summary and proceeding report

This report gives a summary of the meeting, as well as recommendations to integrate disaster management and risk reduction as a part of the development agenda, through disaster risk reduction training and capacity building, and comprehensive disaster risk reduction planning processes and frameworks at national and local level.

Based on the communalities, the 32 participants singled out the following areas for further concern and action: community based disaster risk reduction, climate change, risk assessment, gender, partnership and good practices exchanges.

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Date:

2008

Pages:

5 p.

Sources:

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States (UNISDR ROAS)

Keywords

Themes:: Capacity Development, Climate Change, Community-based DRR, Gender, Public-private Partnerships, Governance, Disaster Risk Management
Regions:: Africa, Asia