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There was a wide-ranging discussion of indicators to measure progress in reducing disaster losses today at the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. Full scale monitoring of the Sendai Framework is due to start in 2020.

Over 4,000 delegates, including representatives from over 40 countries, flocked to the opening today of the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction which is the region’s first opportunity to review progress on implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the global plan for reducing disaster losses.

The Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi, today urged participants in the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction “to wholeheartedly embrace the spirit of Sendai, which calls for an all-of-society approach to disaster risk management.”

A wide ranging Special Session on World Tsunami Awareness Day took place yesterday before today's opening of the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. Raising awareness of rare events is challenging.

Singapore and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) have renewed their partnership to strengthen the disaster risk management capacity of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and other developing countries that are vulnerable to natural disasters and are on the front line of climate change.

A business federation representing more than 250,000 enterprises in the world’s fastest growing major economy today pledged to lead the launch of a fund for private sector innovators to develop sustainable solutions for disaster resilience.

The Indian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, will inaugurate the Asian Ministrial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction tomorrow in New Delhi. It will be the largest such inter-governmental gathering since the adoption of the Sendai Framework in March 2015.

European countries have added momentum to their drive to curb the impacts of natural and man-made hazards by inscribing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction into a four-year regional plan of action.

Pacific countries have pledged to step up efforts to deal with the challenge posed by climate change and the threat of disasters, in order to ensure that their development is sustainable.

Implementation of the New Urban Agenda adopted in Quito, Ecuador, last week can make a significant contribution to reducing the scale of future disaster losses.