GFDRR Track 1, building global and regional partnership: giving risk reduction a regional dimension

This report provides feedback after the first two years of operation of the Global Facility, and demonstrates the significant value it has brought to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework around the world, as the Global Platform for Disaster Reduction convenes for its second session in June 2009.

It provides concrete examples of the manner in which regional approaches, through GFDRR Track I, has increased awareness, political commitment and investments in risk reduction interventions at regional and global levels and the ways in which it is influencing country level plans and priorities.