Disaster Risk Reduction in the United Nations - unisdr

Disaster Risk Reduction in the United Nations
In Commitment 6 of the Brussels Programme of Action (Reducing
vulnerability and protecting the environment) LDCs and their developments
partners committed to alleviate vulnerability of these countries to natural
shocks. This commitment sets out the programme’s agenda for protecting
the environment and addresses a wide range of issues related to loss of
biological diversity, drought, desertification, etc.
The Mauritius Strategy underscores that Small Island Developing States are
located among the most vulnerable regions in the world in relation to the
intensity and frequency of natural and environmental disasters and their
increasing impact, and face disproportionately high economic, social and
environmental consequences. It calls for increased commitments to reduce
the vulnerability of Small Island Developing States, due to their limited
capacity to respond to and recover from disasters.
Memberships in key networks
National counterpart
Brussels Programme of Action: LDCs National Focal Point
Areas of work (to correspond with HFA priority areas 1-5)
HFA Priority for Action 1
Making disaster risk reduction a policy priority, institutional strengthening
SIDS have undertaken to strengthen their respective national frameworks
for more effective disaster management.
In the Mauritius Strategy, Member States committed to: strengthen “the
ISDR and related SIDS regional mechanisms as facilities to improve national
disaster mitigation, preparedness and early warning capacity, increase
public awareness about disaster reduction, stimulate interdisciplinary
and intersectoral partnerships, and support the mainstreaming of risk
management into the national planning process”.
In the Brussels Programme of Action, developments partners of LDCs
have committed themselves to give “priority attention to the LDCs in the
substantive programme and institutional arrangements for implementing
the new International Strategy for Disaster Reduction”.
Roles, mandates and areas of work of key UN entities 69
UN-OHRLLS