Former Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction - Functions and responsibilities - Membership - Working groups - Discussion groups -Meeting records

Membership 2000 -2005

Chair (ex officio) Mr. Jan Egeland
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs

Secretary (ex officio) Mr. Sálvano Briceño
Director, ISDR Secretariat

UN Agencies, Organizations and Programmes

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
www.fao.org
International Labour Organization (ILO)
www.ilo.org
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
www.itu.int
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
http://ochaonline.un.org/, www.reliefweb.int
United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)
www.uncrd.or.jp
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
www.undp.org/bcpr/disred
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
www.unesco.org
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
www.unep.org
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
www.unitar.org, www.unosat.org
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
www.unhabitat.org
United Nations University (UNU)
www.unu.edu
United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
www.unv.org
World Bank (Hazard Risk Management)
www.worldbank.org
World Food Programme (WFP)
www.wfp.org
World Health Organization (WHO)
www.who.org
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
www.wmo.int/disasters

 

Regional Entities

African Union Commission (AU)
www.africa-union.org
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
www.adpc.net
Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
www.adrc.or.jp
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Interstate Council, represented by EMERCOM, Moscow, Federation of Russia www.emercom.on.ufanet.ru
Council of Europe (CoE)
www.coe.int
European Commission- Joint Research Centre (EC/JRC)
www.jrc.cec.eu.int
Ibero-American Association of Civil Defence and Civil Protection
New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Secretariat/AU
www.nepad.org
Organization of American States-Inter-American Committee on Natural Disaster Reduction (OAS-IACNDR)
www.oas.org/usde, www.paho.org/disasters
South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)
www.sopac.org.fj

 

Civil Society Organizations

ActionAid International
www.actionaid.org
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
www.cred.be
Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI)
www.earthquakesandmegacities.org
Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC)
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de
IGAD Climate Prediction & Applications Centre, Greater Horn of Africa (ICPAD)
www.igad.org, www.dmcn.org
International Council for Science (ICSU)
www.icsu.org
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
www.ifrc.org
Munich Re-insurance
www.munichre.com

For information on individual members representing the agencies, please contact the Secretariat.

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