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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.

Georgia Mayor Platon Kalmakhelidze (standing, 2nd from left) has put his city at the forefront of urban resilience. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Georgia joins resilient cities campaign

TBLISI, 5 December 2014 – Telavi, one of the most ancient cities of Georgia, has become the country’s first municipality to join the Making Cities Resilient Campaign...
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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
Tacloban Vice Mayor Jerry Yoakasin discussing typhoon-proof housing with architect and urban planner James Jao. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Huge demand for evacuation centres in Tacloban

Government and schools were closed today in the Philippines coastal city of Tacloban as thousands of families flocked to evacuation centres ahead of the feared arrival of another “super typhoon” at the weekend.
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UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlstrom and Sao Paulo State Governor Geraldo Alckmin at today's ceremony where the Sao Paulo was recognized as a role model in UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign. (Photo: Diogo Moreira)
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Brazil’s São Paulo State recognized by UN for pioneering work in building urban resilience to disasters

UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign usually recognizes exceptional performance by cities and towns in disaster risk management but today it granted role model status to São Paulo State, Brazil, for its ability to mobilise 211 cities and towns in the populous state to join the Campaign.
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Armenian Minister of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations, Mr Armen Yeritsyan, urges use of World Conference for DRR in Sendai, Japan, as a springboard to future resilience. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Armenia highlights Sendai opportunity

Global policymakers were today urged to grasp the opportunity of the upcoming Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction #wcdrr as a key moment in collective efforts to build safer and more resilient nations www.wcdrr.org.
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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
Today's International Day of People with Disability was marked by the testimony of 911 responder and earthquake survivor, Nelli Charchyan, at a DRR conference in Yerevan, Armenia.
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Quake survivor promotes inclusion in HFA2

YEREVAN, 3 December 2014 – The global effort to forge a 2015 framework for disaster risk reduction – an updated Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) - has championed inclusiveness as a key strength for the future resilience of communities and nations...
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Spitak DeputyMayor Vardan Sahakyan signs up for the Making Cities Resilient Campaign determined to build a safer city after a 'very bad and bitter experience.' (Photo: UNISDR)
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Earthquake city joins UNISDR campaign

YEREVAN, 1 December 2014 – The Armenian city of Spitak, at the epicentre of the devastating 1988 earthquake, is a reminder of why current efforts to forge an ambitious post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction are so important.
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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster Risk Manager Mahmudur Rahman said that those people who had strong traditional knowledge of living on the coast had built houses that survived Cyclone Sidr, the worst of recent storms. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Crab risk reduction in Bangladesh!

The Hyogo Framework for Action has been an important guide to disaster risk managers working to build resilience on one of the world’s most exposed and vulnerable coasts.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
The PrepCom Co-Chairs Ambassadors Thani Thongphakdi, Thailand, and Päivi Kairamo, Finland, at the close of the two day PrepCom for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction yesterday. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Negotiations continue on new DRR framework

Work is to continue on the negotiation of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction following two days of debate and discussion at the 2nd Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction which concluded in Geneva yesterday evening.
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The Assistant Director ofRisk from Colombia’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Ms Sandra Lucero Rodriguez Samacá: “We have looked at risk as anopportunity, this means we are better prepared to face disasters.”
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Financial accounting ‘strengthens resilience’

GENEVA, 18 November 2014 – Financial accounting for disaster risk is an opportunity to strengthen national resilience, leaders from the public and private sector were told today...
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At the announcement of an agreement on accessibility to the WCDRR, (left to right): Veronique Walbaum, Handicap International, Martin Kunstmann, ASB, Manuel Rothe, CBM, Luisa Fenu, CBM, Shivani Gupta, IDA/CBM, Gordon Rattray, CBM, Margareta Wahlstrom, UNISDR Chief, Ito Yukimoto, Vice Mayor of Sendai City, Yasunobu Ishii, Nippon Foundation, and Kaoru Saito, Japan Cabinet Office.
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Sendai WCDRR will be disability-inclusive

GENEVA, November 18, 2014 - The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the Nippon Foundation today signed an agreement that will make the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) accessible and inclusive for persons with disabilities.
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