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

130.0 Sasakawa Disaster Prevention Award Endowment Fund 140.0

2 400.0 the Department of Humanitarian Affairs 2 700.0

Endowment Fund Trust Fund for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction 4 500.0

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

Endowment Fund Trust Fund for Disaster Relief Assistance 123 900.0

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.

The National Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Fund, which is administered by a board, was also established in order to assist in the execution of relief programmes.

His Office was working on the issues of disaster insurance and operationalization of the Emergency Fund for Disasters, both of particular interest to small island developing States.

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.

My delegation also supports setting up a 1 billion voluntary fund to provide urgent relief to victims of sudden disasters.

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

(b) Recommendation 2. A fund should be established as a sustainable resource used for applying space technologies in support of disaster management and for capacity building.

Disaster mitigation

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

Disaster relief and mitigation, and special emergency for United Nations Development Organizations (programme

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Sirens and tempests beset me.

In early 2005, IMF agreed to subsidize emergency assistance for natural disasters to PRGF eligible members.

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.

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.

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

(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.

While the shift from relief to rehabilitation gains momentum, it is essential that adequate resources are made available to support activities that are responsive to the evolving political and security environments.

Disaster risk reduction

Draft resolution I International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

The Federation's own fund, called the Disaster Response Emergency Fund, helps us to immediately deploy resources to respond to disasters, even before donors assess their ability to pledge any support.

92. Through its close association with UNDP, UNIFEM has been able to contribute to the development of the Disaster Management Programme and its operational guidelines.

AND DISASTER RELIEF

To be sure, the EU budget contains flexible instruments, such as the EU Solidarity Fund, which provides emergency assistance after natural disasters.

Noted that the preparation of a comprehensive PTA Food Security Programme was under way with the establishment of a Disaster Relief Fund as one of the major components

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.

Two trust funds, the Trust Fund for Public Awareness on Disarmament Issues and the Sasakwa UNDRO Disaster Prevention Award Endowment Fund, were established through two endowment payments of 1 million each.

Prevention and mitigation

2. Disaster relief and mitigation

Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction

INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR NATURAL DISASTER REDUCTION

WORLD CONFERENCE ON NATURAL DISASTER REDUCTION

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International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction note by the Secretary General (A 48 911)