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The latest news from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the lead UN agency for the coordination of disaster risk reduction.

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The leader of Fiji’s disaster-hit Western Division has pledged to forge an integrated cross-sectoral strategy to achieve a safer and more resilient future.
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New generation: Ms Wahlström urges the youth ambassadors to play their part in building a safer tomorrow
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The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Ms Margareta Wahlström, signalled the importance of the next generation taking up the challenge of building a safer and more resilient future.
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A beautiful inheritance: Tonga’s leaders are determined their country will remain resilient.
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"God and Tonga are my inheritance" – the motto of this Pacific Kingdom – has inspired its leaders to move to safeguard their country for future generations. Their efforts represent an inspiring example of ambitious disaster and climate resilient development steered by strong national leadership that is based on community ownership.
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The head of a major Pacific regional organization said the region’s acute vulnerability left it no alternative but to lead the world in integrating risk reduction and climate change action into one over-arching strategy to secure a sustainable future. The Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Dr David Sheppard, said the Pacific would rise to the challenge but they needed the world to join efforts too.
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Build back better: Prof. John Hay tells the Pacific risk reduction and climate change conference in Fiji that regional organisations should increase their focus on recovery.
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A landmark study says that regional organizations involved in disaster risk management in the Pacific will have to demonstrate excellence in technical assistance and be aligned to international financial flows to remain relevant.
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Jerry Velasquez, Head of UNISDR's office in the Asia-Pacific region, speaking at the 2013 Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management.
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The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today praised the Pacific for providing a 'perfect springboard' into the coming 18 months during which the world will prepare a new, longer term and more ambitious post-2015 framework to achieve safer and more resilient communities and nations.
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The March 2012 Nadi River floods reached 8.3 metres completely inundating several businesses. However, within a month 70 per cent had reopened in a remarkable demonstration of resilience.
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Businesses that bounced back quickly from a recent spate of disasters have a lot to teach policymakers and community leaders about resilience, a banking executive told a major Pacific development forum today.
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Integrated action and partnerships with communities is a means to strengthen safety and resilience of vulnerable islanders. Vatukulu in Western Fiji is proud of its early warning system and thanks its various partners.
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Pacific government ministers today said community leadership was the key to success of innovative approaches to integrated climate change and disaster risk reduction action across the region.
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Ms Wahlström praises the 2013 Joint Meeting of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management and Pacific Climate Change Roundtable in Fiji for blazing the trail of integrated strategy and action.
Press release
The Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, today hailed the Pacific as it committed to a world first of integrating action in disaster risk management and climate change in one strategy to secure a sustainable future for this increasingly threatened region.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon helped plant these mangrove shoots on Tarawa, an atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati following discussions with local people about the effects of climate change on this low-lying land.
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Every day the Pacific wakes up and goes to work ahead of the rest of the world and next week it will do the same as it kicks off a series of regional consultations that will shape the successor agreement to the Hyogo Framework for Action after 2015.
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