Living with Risk. A global review of disaster reduction initiatives

the United Nations Secretary-General's
reform proposals adopted in 1997, to
promote common objectives, time frames as
well as improved collaboration between
United Nations programmes and funds. It
has been designed as the centrepiece of
United Nations development cooperation at
country level. UNDAF is primarily a United
Nations instrument to respond strategically
to countries' development challenges
and to the United Nations global agenda.
UNDAF is intended to strengthen the
capacity of host Governments to implement
their development programmes and
strengthen their relations with the United
Nations system. It is complemented with
Common Country Assessments (CCAs),
carried out between the agencies and the
host country authorities. UNDAF and
CCAs are therefore useful tools for the
incorporation of disaster risk assessments
and reduction measures into inter-agency
assessment and action in a country.
United Nations Development Group
(UNDG)
Web site: www.undg.org
UNDG Executive Committee membership:
UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, WFP and
other entities participating as warranted by
their interests and mandates. The Office of
the Spokesman for the Secretary-General
and the United Nations Fund for International
Partnerships (UNFIP) participate in
UNDG as observers.
UNDG members: DESA, UNDCP, UN-
HABITAT, United Nations Office for
Project Services (UNOPS), United
Nations Development Fund for Women
(UNIFEM), Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS),
UNCTAD, WHO, IFAD, UNESCO,
FAO, the regional economic commissions,
the High Commissioner for Human Rights
and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General
for Children and Armed
Conflict.
UNDG, chaired by the UNDP Administrator,
provides a framework for greater
coherence and cooperation in United
Nations development operations. This
Related international commitments and the UN role in disaster risk reduction
enables UNDG members to maximize their
comparative advantages and build on and
support the work of other members at the
country level. As most of the UNDG
members carry out activities towards disaster
reduction (see previous pages of this
section), this group represents an opportunity
to integrate disaster reduction into
other areas of concern, in particular sustainable
development.
The DevLink web site, managed by
UNDG, provides key documents, examples
of good practice, training materials, sources
of additional information and links to relevant
United Nations and non-United
Nations sites on UNDG areas of activity
and in support of the implementation of the
Millennium Declaration and the Secretary-
General's reform programme, particularly
CCAs and UNDAF.
United Nations Disaster Management
Training Programme (UNDMTP)
Web site: www.undmtp.org
Membership:
United Nations system agencies/organizations:
FAO, IBRD, ILO, International
Organization for Migration (IOM),
OCHA, ISDR, Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights (OHCHR), United Nations Centre
for Human Settlements (UNCHS),
UNCTAD, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO,
UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNITAR,
UNOPS, United Nations Staff College
(UNSC), United Nations Volunteers
(UNV), WFP, WHO, WMO.
Non-United Nations organizations: International
Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC), International Council of Voluntary
Agencies (ICVA), IFRC, National Refugee
Commission (NRC), Steering Committee
for Humanitarian Response (SCHR)
Under the management of UNDP, DMTP
is an inter-agency tool shared to support
capacity-building activities in the field of
crisis and disaster management by undertaking
training to meet the needs of government
personnel, civil society groups,
community leaders and partners in the
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