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

Lucky the entire country has been quick to answer to the relief call.

The Task Force assisted during the recent Indian Ocean tsunami disaster relief and rehabilitation effort by providing imagery analyses.

There is remarkable work being done to create opportunities, as well as to prevent catastrophe.

In a second phase, these 97 families, assisted by an expert, built new homes with contributions from UNDP, the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator (UNDRO) and the Government of Switzerland.

Despite efforts to mitigate natural disasters, response was constrained by limited capacity and resources.

The coordination challenges in any disaster recovery effort are often complex.

The global review undertaken by the Conference provided new motivation to share the lessons learnt from past disasters in order to apply them more systematically to future disaster reduction efforts.

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.

81. Natural disasters can have an enormous and dramatic impact on development efforts.

Deeply convinced of the urgent need for enhanced coordination efforts at the global level to reduce the impact of disasters,

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

To date less than 15 per cent of the requirements of the 1993 Relief and Rehabilitation Programme has been made available.

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

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies organized and coordinated a tremendous effort of humanitarian assistance at times of natural disasters and armed conflicts.

Noting that the resolute efforts of the Malagasy Government aimed at promoting growth and economic development will be hampered by this type of periodical natural disaster,

191. The Committee recognizes that natural and man made disasters have had a negative impact on efforts by the State party to ensure full implementation of the Convention.

Requests the United Nations system to improve its coordination of disaster recovery efforts, from relief to development, inter alia, by strengthening institutional, coordination and strategic planning efforts in disaster recovery, in support of national authorities

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.

18. Requests the United Nations system to improve its coordination of disaster recovery efforts, from relief to development, inter alia, by strengthening institutional, coordination and strategic planning efforts in disaster recovery, in support of national authorities

19. Requests the United Nations system to improve its coordination of disaster recovery efforts, from relief to development, inter alia, by strengthening institutional, coordination and strategic planning efforts in disaster recovery, in support of national authorities

18. Requests the United Nations system to improve its coordination of disaster recovery efforts, from relief to development, inter alia, by strengthening institutional, coordination and strategic planning efforts in disaster recovery, in support of national authorities

13. The Department of Humanitarian Affairs should intensify its cooperation with Governments, organizations of the United Nations system and non governmental organizations to develop a coordinated effort to build up national capacities for disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation in the context of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

Barbados applauds the efforts of all those associated with the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, to lessen the vulnerability of those communities most susceptible to such disasters.

Efforts will also be made to secure extrabudgetary funding for projects related to coastal zone management and natural and environmental disaster management of small island developing States.

The primary contributors to the fund should be development and relief organizations and those who would be the main beneficiaries of disaster reduction

Disaster mitigation

Asia, even America, that aid groups, just as they did for the tsunami, are uniting as one, acting as one.

In this regard, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA), established by the Caribbean Community in 1991, is a tangible demonstration of our subregion apos s efforts to strengthen our institutional capacity for disaster management and response.

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Emphasizing the importance of continued international cooperation in support of the efforts of affected States in dealing with natural disasters and complex emergencies in all their phases,

It is also imperative that reconstruction efforts include the establishment of a warning system to reduce the likelihood that widespread death and destruction from such a disaster will occur again.

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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.

Mr. Abiodun (Chairman of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space) said that the natural disasters of the past year had dramatically demonstrated the vulnerability of human societies to the forces of nature and the need for redoubled disaster reduction efforts and enhanced disaster response.

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

11. Stresses the importance of identifying, assessing and managing risks prior to the occurrence of disasters, for which it is necessary to combine the efforts at all levels of the development, humanitarian, scientific and environmental communities, as well as the importance of integrating disaster reduction, as appropriate, into development plans and poverty eradication programmes

Stresses the importance of identifying, assessing and managing risks prior to the occurrence of disasters, for which it is necessary to combine the efforts at all levels of the development, humanitarian, scientific and environmental communities, as well as the importance of integrating disaster reduction into development plans and poverty eradication programmes

19. Stresses the importance of identifying, assessing and managing risks prior to the occurrence of disasters, for which it is necessary to combine the efforts at all levels of the development, humanitarian, scientific and environmental communities, as well as the importance of integrating disaster reduction, as appropriate, into development plans and poverty eradication programmes

Disasters have a tremendous detrimental impact on efforts at all levels to eradicate global poverty the impact of disasters remains a significant challenge to sustainable development.

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.

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