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Colonel José Roberto Rodrigues de Oliveira, Coordinator of the São Paulo State Civil Defence received from UNISDR Senior Programme Advisor David Stevens the Certificate of Completion of the LGSAT (Local Government Self-Assessment Tool ) report for the second cycle. (Photo: UNISDR)
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Brazil scores at DRR too!

Football fans from all over the world were joined in São Paulo this week by officials representing the hopes and aspirations of 37 million people who live in 59 municipalities which are now members of UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign.
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The conference declaration benefited from the participation of national and local government officials, academics, members of civil society, youth groups and non-government organizations from some 30 countries.
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Americas calls for ‘indicators of resilience’

The Americas region gave further impetus to the global efforts to agree a new international framework on disaster risk reduction (DRR) by adopting on Thursday a series of recommendations to be included in the agreement due to be adopted at a world conference next year in Sendai, Japan.
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Poverty remains a big challenge in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Risk and poverty reduction in the Americas

Ecuador is using policies of poverty reduction to limit the vulnerability of populations to natural hazards and disasters, the 4th Session of the Americas Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction heard yesterday in a wide-ranging discussion on the links between poverty and disasters.
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José Corral, mayor Santa Fe, Argentina, sharing his city's experience in combating urban flooding.
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Strengthen role of local authorities in DRR

A new global framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR) must seek to strengthen the role of local government because the impact of all disasters is local, the 4th Session of the Americas Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction heard on Wednesday.
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Margareta Wahlström (third from left), Head of UNISDR, in a high-level panel with ministers from selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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New pact must integrate DRR and national development

The biggest challenge facing next year’s UN World Conference to agree a new global DRR framework, is how to integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) into national development plans, Margareta Wahlström, Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), said on Wednesday.
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Children representatives of the Voces movement with Margareta Wahlström, head of UNISDR.
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Americas children heard on DRR

Nearly 60 children and young people from across Latin America and the Caribbean made a strong and colourful claim on Tuesday for their voices to be heard in campaigns to reduce risks of natural disasters and other pressing environmental and social issues.
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Ecuadorian Deputy Foreign Minister Leonardo Arízaga Schmegel opened the 4th Regional Platform for DRR in the Americas.
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Americas DRR Platform opens with Ecuador’s HFA success

Ecuador has invested heavily in disaster risk reduction (DRR), both politically and financially, and with some good results, but there is much still do, the opening session of the 4th Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas heard on Tuesday.
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The Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Americas is the main venue that brings together key stakeholders and actors involved in DRR throughout North, South and Central America and the Caribbean.
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Americas to decide needs for UN global agreement on disaster risk

Several hundred government and civil society representatives from over 30 countries will gather this week in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil to review progress in the Americas on reducing exposure to disaster risk.
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Margareta Wahlström, head of the UNISDR, met with Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, yesterday and they discussed the country's disaster risk reduction efforts following two earthquakes earlier this month.
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Post-quake opportunity in Chile

The Head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, arrived yesterday in Chile, where she was received by the President, Michelle Bachelet, prior to a regional consultation on disaster risk reduction with the eleven member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).
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The new champion of UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign, Mayor José Corral, of Santa Fe, Argentina, speaking this week at UN-Habitat's 7th Urban World Forum, in Medellin, Colombia.
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New Champion for Making Cities Resilient

The Mayor of the Argentinian city, Sante Fe, José Corral, returns to his home city tomorrow from the 7th World Urban Forum (WUF7) as a Champion of UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign .
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