Lessons learned from applications of space technologies in support of disaster relief efforts.

Recommendations of the Action Team on Disaster Management

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Specific findings of the Action Team on Disaster Management

(a) Review the recommendations of the Action Team on Disaster Management, with a view to their implementation

The intention of Governments to maintain the informal Strategy Support Group is welcomed.

The Action Team made a number of recommendations, including the establishment of an international space coordination body for disaster management, provisionally identified as the disaster management international space coordination organization.

A top U.N. humanitarian official has condemned the violence and demanded an investigation.

The Secretary of Public Health announced that during this week a mass fumigation will take place to avoid the emerging of possible diseases.

In order to implement a global integrated disaster management system, the Action Team made the following three recommendations in its final report

Noting also the coordinated response measures taken by the United Nations Development Programme and the assistance of the United Nations disaster management team,

Noting also the coordinated response measures taken by the United Nations Development Programme and the assistance of the United Nations Disaster Management Team,

On the basis of the constraints identified by the members of the Action Team on Disaster Management, the ad hoc expert group agreed that DMISCO would contribute significantly to the areas listed below.

Moreover, Cuban specialists will soon join the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team.

In its report, the Action Team stressed that natural and man made disasters struck all parts of the world indiscriminately and concluded that to successfully reduce their impact would require coordinated international efforts to manage their effects and supplement the ongoing global approaches.

To strengthen that process following the Conference, an intergovernmental advisory group4 was established to help mobilize higher levels of political commitment and link national needs and concerns with United Nations assistance in disaster risk reduction.

His Government had also invited the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team to evaluate Mongolia's disaster response system and currently had many recommendations that would enable it to strengthen its disaster management capacity.

The situation is so desperate in parts of Africa, Asia, even America, that aid groups, just as they did for the tsunami, are uniting as one, acting as one.

The ad hoc expert group concluded that gaps existed in the awareness of the disaster management community of those resources, in knowledge of how to access them and in the capacity to use them.

In that spirit, and because of the impact of Hurricane Katrina, the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specializing in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics was established on 19 September 2005.

However, in practice, the UN response will be coordinated by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), by deploying a UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team, in response to a request by the affected country's government.

Classifications Researchers have been studying disasters for more than a century, and for more than forty years disaster research.

Some disasters are less likely than others, and some remedies are more costly than others.

The secretariat of ISDR uses satellite imagery in disaster risk reduction.

Shifting from emergency disaster response to more proactive disaster prevention, risk reduction and mitigation will, in our view, be the key to success.

The study of the ad hoc expert group identified several international initiatives that were contributing in a significant way to increasing the use of space based technologies in support of disaster management activities.

(d) Disaster risk reduction diminishes the need for humanitarian emergency interventions in the aftermath of disasters

The Asian Disaster Reduction Centre is a specialized organization for disaster reduction based in Kobe, Japan.

Disaster risk reduction

So, the four wheel drive vehicles at the headquarters drive the ministers, the permanent secretaries, the bureaucrats and the international aid bureaucrats who work in aid projects, while the poor die without ambulances and medicine.

We recognize that the international community has accumulated much experience with disaster risk reduction through the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and the succeeding International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

The study conducted by the Action Team on Disaster Management highlighted the gaps and constraints in the current system, most of which could be addressed effectively through the application of space technology.

20. Welcomes the global review of disaster reduction initiatives coordinated by the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and emphasizes the importance of periodic review as a means of discussing disaster trends, assessing policies aimed at mitigating the impact of disaster and offering examples of successful initiatives

Those initiatives were either specific to a particular phase of the disaster cycle, specific to a type of disaster or specific to a geographical region.

In accordance with recommendation 2 of the Action Team on Disaster Management, a fund would be established to be available as a sustainable resource to support the implementation of the activities identified jointly by the national focal points and the proposed DMISCO.

India set up its national disaster management authority to strengthen the national and institutional legislative system to deal with disaster risk reduction.

Prevention and mitigation

Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

Emphasize the importance of regional cooperation and coordination in disaster reduction to effectively address the impact of natural disasters

Advocating resource mobilization, establishing tracking and reporting systems, administering the Strategy Trust Fund for Disaster Reduction

The convening today of the Kobe World Conference on Disaster Reduction is an opportunity to draw up a framework for a disaster reduction strategy for this century.

All disasters are hence the result of human failure to introduce appropriate disaster management measures.

A number of factors, including climate change and poverty, had increased the risk of natural disasters and the fragility of the countries facing them.

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