(1) Training Workshop on Community Based Disaster Risk Management

17. Recognizes the importance of integrating a gender perspective and engaging women in the design and implementation of all phases of disaster management, particularly at the disaster risk reduction stage

17. Recognizes the importance of integrating a gender perspective as well as engaging women in the design and implementation of all phases of disaster management, particularly at the disaster risk reduction stage

15. Recognizes the importance of integrating a gender perspective as well as engaging women in the design and implementation of all phases of disaster management, particularly at the disaster risk reduction stage

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

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

(f) Disaster management

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

(b) Identify, assess and monitor disaster risks and enhance early warning

New developments include partnerships in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to promote disaster risk reduction and to design subregional common policies on disaster risk reduction.

Recognizing also the need to integrate a gender perspective in the design and implementation of all phases of disaster risk reduction management, with a view to reducing vulnerability,

The programme on water related disaster risk management links the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, adopted at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (Kobe, Japan, January 2005), to the Water for Life Decade.

In support of this, UNDP will deploy national disaster risk reduction advisers to assist national efforts in capacity building for disaster risk reduction in 20 of the most disaster prone countries of the world.

Recognizing further that certain measures for disaster risk reduction in the context of the Hyogo Framework for Action can also support adaptation to climate change, and emphasizing the importance of strengthening the resilience of nations and communities to natural disasters through disaster risk reduction programmes,

(vi) Space system based disaster management support

We reaffirm the vital role of the United Nations system in disaster risk reduction.

Recognizing that disaster risk reduction is a cross cutting issue in the context of sustainable development,

Recognizing the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

Recognizing that disaster risk reduction is a cross cutting issue in the context of sustainable development,

(v) Space system based disaster management support

(iv) Space system based disaster management support

(v) Space system based disaster management support

Recognizing, in that regard, that unnecessary loss of life and property could be avoided if better information were available regarding the risk and onset of disasters, through improved risk assessment, early warning and monitoring of disasters,

Initiatives are under way in Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chad, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Madagascar, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Senegal, Seychelles, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda to review national disaster risk reduction plans and to strengthen or create national platforms in support of broader national policy initiatives and the development of sustainable institutional systems to deal with disaster risk.

Recognizing also the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to continue to deploy efforts in all these areas,

Recognizing also the clear relationship between development, disaster risk reduction, disaster response and disaster recovery and the need to deploy efforts in all these areas,

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.

(a) Ensure that disaster risk reduction is a national and a local priority with a strong institutional basis for implementation

A more comprehensive and coordinated approach to disaster management needs to be developed.

Building space based systems specifically to support disaster management

Natural disaster management was a huge challenge for the countries concerned and the Subcommittee had therefore examined the possibility of creating an international space coordination entity for disaster management.

9. Takes note of all the regional and subregional initiatives developed in order to achieve disaster risk reduction, reiterates the need to develop regional initiatives and risk reduction capacities of regional mechanisms and to strengthen them, wherever they exist, and encourages the use and sharing of all the existing tools

Emphasizing that disaster risk reduction, including reducing vulnerability to natural disasters, is an important element that contributes to the achievement of sustainable development,

The Conference represented a landmark in worldwide understanding of and commitment to implementing a comprehensive disaster risk reduction agenda.

(c) Disaster risk reduction is an integral part of sustainable development and one of the essential prerequisites for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals

Emphasizing that disaster risk reduction, including reducing vulnerability to natural disasters, is an important cross cutting element that contributes to the achievement of sustainable development,

(c) Increased participation in training seminars on disaster management, improved field and regional cooperation in disaster management and increased donor response to inter agency appeals.

The Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the earthquakes in South East Asia and other national disasters have posed even greater threats to public health systems.

Long term disaster risk reduction for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Nicaragua Algeria the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Djibouti Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

A culture of disaster risk reduction must be fostered at all levels, ranging from the individual to international levels. Human societies have to live with the risk of hazards posed by nature.

It is particularly encouraging to see initiatives in regions previously less active in the area of disaster risk reduction.

Given the recent succession of major disasters, his country wished to share its long experience in disaster management with other countries.

Fourthly, we have enhanced our capacity to better respond to, and manage, natural disasters.

Africa s potential can be harnessed only by adaptation to climate change, using disaster risk reduction mechanisms.

Disaster risk mitigation and preparedness are integral to the planning of human settlements in countries prone to natural disasters.