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Second Session of the Global Platform
for Disaster Risk Reduction
15-19 June
2009 |Geneva, Switzerland
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Highlights
for Thursday,
18 June 2009
On Thursday, participants met in high-level panels on safer schools and hospitals, and on disaster reduction and recovery.
They also took part in roundtable discussions on risk reduction education, and creating
disaster risk reduction synergies at the grassroots level.
An informal plenary continued to discuss
the mid-term review of the Hyogo Framework of Action, identifying challenges and best practices in disaster risk reduction, as well as financing and climate change adaptation.
In the morning, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the Global Humanitarian Forum's
"Weather Info for All" initiative, which is aimed at improving Africa's weather forecasts in the face of the growing impact of climate change, through the continent's widespread mobile phone networks. The initiative is supported by Ericsson, the World Meteorological Organization and mobile telecommunications company Zain.
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| HIGH-LEVEL
PANEL ON
SAFER SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS
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| The dais of the
high-level panel on
safer schools and
hospitals. |
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Eric Laroche, Assistant Director-General,
World
Health
Organization
(WHO), noted that many victims
die due to inadequate responses. |
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| Carmencita Banatin, Department of Health, the Philippines, said
damage to hospitals undermines responses to disasters. |
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| Gerard Bonhoure, Ministry of National Education, France, stressed the importance of scientific knowledge as a basis for policy. |
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| Sulton Rahimov, Head of Department of Ecology and Emergency Situations,
Tajikistan,
noted that knowledge, skills and competence are necessary to facilitate appropriate citizen action in times of natural disasters. |
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| Zoubida Allaoua, World Bank, announced the official launch of the Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction Developed by the World Bank and the Inter-Agency Network of Education in Emergencies. |
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| Laura Gurza Jaidar, Ministry of the Interior, Mexico,
said her country established hospitals with higher capacity in high-risk
areas. |
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| HIGH-LEVEL PANEL ON
BUILDING BACK BETTER DISASTER REDUCTION AND THE RECOVERY OPPORTUNITY
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| Participants
at the
high-level panel on
building back
disaster reduction
and the recovery
opportunity watched
a short video on
disaster reduction. |
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| Surin Pitsuwan, ASEAN Secretary-General, stressed the importance of integrating
disaster risk
reduction in all
aspects of rebuilding. |
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| Dean Hirsch, President and Chief Executive, World Vision International,
noted that the involvement of children is an essential component of
disaster risk
reduction. |
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| Vinay Kumar, Ministry of Home Affairs, India, said India has the legal framework and mechanism in place for rescue and relief efforts as well as reconstruction. |
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| INFORMAL
PLENARY
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| The informal plenary was co-chaired by Jordan Ryan, Assistant Administrator, UNDP and
Margareta
Wahlström, Assistant Secretary-General,
UNISDR. |
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| ROUNDTABLE
ON RISK EDUCATION |
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| The
roundtable on risk
education. |
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| Co-Chair Margareta
Wahlström
with Guadalupe Valdez, Deputy Education Minister, Dominican Republic. |
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| Chair Louis-Georges Arsenault, UNICEF, urged participants to listen to the voice of children and adolescents on disaster risk reduction issues. |
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| Sae Kani, Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, said that disabled children must be integrated into the disaster risk reduction agenda. |
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| ROUNDTABLE
ON CREATING SYNERGIES AT THE GRASSROOTS
LEVEL |
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| Carmen Griffiths, Construction Resource and Development Center, Jamaica, said that disasters bring women together. |
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| Chair Jemilah Mahmood, Mercy Malaysia, asked panelists to encourage government accountability to grassroots actors on disaster risk reduction issues. |
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| Margaret Arnold, ProVention Consortium, described the work of her organization in post-disaster needs
assessment. |
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SNAPSHOTS
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| GLOBAL
HUMANITARIAN FORUM'S "WEATHER
INFO FOR ALLl"
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| L-R:
Margareta
Wahlström, UN Assistant Secretary-General, UNISDR;
Walter Fust, Global
Humanitarian Forum;
Michel Jarraud,
Secretary-General,
World Meteorological
Organization;
Kofi Annan,
Former UN Secretary-General
; Carl
Henric Svanberg,
Erricson and Lord
Simon Cairn,
Zain. |
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BANNERS
AROUND THE SESSION
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Related Links for
Disaster Risk Reduction
 Website of the
UN
International Strategy for Risk Reduction
Website of the
Second
Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk
Reduction
Session
documents: Provisional
Annotated Agenda, Provisional
Timetable, and Calendar
of Events
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the
Second
African Regional Platform for Disaster Risk
Reduction (DRR) Consultative Meeting, 5-7
May 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
IISD RS coverage of the
First
Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction,
4-7 June 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
IISD RS coverage of
the World
Conference on Disaster Reduction, 18-22 January 2005, Kobe-Hyogo, Japan
IISD RS coverage of
the World
Conference on Disaster Reduction - Prepcom-1, 6-7
May 2004, Geneva, Switzerland
IISD RS coverage of
the Second
Conference on Early Warning, 16-18
October 2003, Bonn, Germany
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Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
MEA Bulletin- Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
Climate Change Policy & Practice - News and information on the actions of international organizations in responding to the problem of global climate change
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