Europe Launch 2011 Global Assesment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
11.30-12.15
UN House, meeting room, ground floor, Rue Montoyer/straat 14
The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR11) – Revealing Risk, Redefining Development – is a major initiative of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) by monitoring risk patterns and progress in disaster risk reduction. Importantly, it provides guidance to governments and non-governmental actors, on how they can, together, reduce disaster risks. This Report was developed in collaboration with many partners across the globe and important financial resources were contributed generously by, inter alia, the European Commission.
Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction, will present the findings of the Report.
On the occasion of this event the new media handbook on disaster risk reduction will be made available. This handbook was developed by UNISDR, in collaboration with Tim Radford, (former journalist with The Guardian) and with support from a number of international journalist from Thomson Reuter’s AlertNet, the BBC, Vietnam TV and Tempo in Jakarta amongst others.