As government representatives and experts from around the world gather in Japan to endorse a post-2015 framework for global disaster risk reduction, the World Bank Group has today emphasized that increasing resilience and disaster risk reduction are central to alleviating poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
Including persons with disabilities in emergency plans will be one of the topics addressed at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai, Japan.
Targeted development programmes prioritising smallholder farmers [...]
As countries prepare to meet at the Third Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in less than two weeks, UN officials tell us why strengthening our resilience is essential if we want to achieve sustainable development.
Ten years ago today, world leaders in Hyogo, Japan agreed on a framework to better manage risk and curb the impact of disasters in the wake of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami – which claimed some 227,000 lives – and in March, they are set to meet for a United Nations conference in another Japanese city to take stock of whether the world has lived up to that promise.
Africa’s continued progress on growth and development targets will hinge [...]
