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IAP meeting, Incheon, 13-14 August 2009
First session of the
Committee on Disaster Risk
Reduction,
25-27 March 2009
ESCAP Tsunami Regional
Trust Fund
IAP meeting, Incheon, 13-14 August 2009
Promote regional cooperative
mechanisms and knowledge-sharing
arrangements for disaster risk
reduction, including on ICT and
space technologies
Enhance regional cooperation to
prepare for the natural hazards
resulting from climate change and
requested that the secretariat
facilitate such efforts in the region
Committee on DRR
Major recommendations
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IAP meeting, Incheon, 13-14 August 2009
Major recommendations
• Establish the Asia-Pacific gateway for
disaster risk reduction and
development
Regional platform for information
sharing and partnerships to assist
countries with policies and
programmes that deliver economic
and social benefits and to ensure
that DRR and CCA are integrated
with development
• Work programme 2010-2011:
regional workshop on the Asia-
Pacific gateway for disaster risk
reduction and development
IAP meeting, Incheon, 13-14 August 2009
Major recommendations
• Issue a publication focusing on best
practices and lessons learned in
various aspects of disaster risk
reduction and management in the
Asia-Pacific region
HLRT: Asia-Pacific disaster report - on
best practices and lessons learned
from specific national efforts, regional
cooperation, trends and major events,
economic and social analyses, disaster
recovery programmes
• Collaboration with UNISDR, other UN
entities, regional and subregional
organizations
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IAP meeting, Incheon, 13-14 August 2009
Contributors: Thailand,
Sweden, Turkey and Nepal
Grants to Governments, IGOs
and NGOs
About US$ 10.8 million
programmed for 12
organizations (51 proposals
received with a total budget of
about US$ 61 million)
UN partners: IOC-UNESCO,
ISDR, OCHA, UNDP, WMO
ESCAP Tsunami Regional Trust Fund:
background
IAP meeting, Incheon, 13-14 August 2009
ESCAP Tsunami Regional
Trust Fund: update
Name change/broadening of
scope
Strategic Plan
ESCAP/ISDR Consultation
Meeting, 17-18 September
2009
Report on Regional Unmet
Needs
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IAP meeting, Incheon, 13-14 August 2009
ESCAP Tsunami Regional
Trust Fund: Strategic Plan
Overall framework: end-to-end
early warning
Highest priority areas:
•
Risk and vulnerability
assessments
•
Standard Operating Procedures
•
Response capacity (through
regional initiatives)
•
Public awareness
•
Drills: promote regulations and
standards for evaluation
•
Improve effectiveness of
warning messages
IAP meeting, Incheon, 13-14 August 2009
Thank you!
www.unescap.org/pmd/tsunami_i
ndex.asp
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ESCAP Tsunami Regional Trust Fund:
background
Contributors: Thailand, Sweden,
Turkey and Nepal
Grants to Governments, IGOs and
NGOs
About US$ 10.8 million
programmed for 12 organizations
(51 proposals received with a total
budget of about US$ 61 million)
UN partners: IOC-UNESCO, ISDR,
OCHA, UNDP, WMO
ESCAP Tsunami Regional Trust Fund:
update
Name change/broadening
of scope
Strategic Plan
ESCAP-ISDR Consultation
Meeting, 17-18 September
2009
Report on Regional Unmet
Needs
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ESCAP Tsunami Regional Trust Fund:
Strategic Plan
Overall framework: end-to-end
early warning
Highest priority areas:
•
Risk and vulnerability
assessments
•
Standard Operating Procedures
•
Response capacity (through
regional initiatives)
•
Public awareness
•
Drills: promote regulations and
standards for evaluation
•
Improve effectiveness of
warning messages
Thank you!
www.unescap.org/pmd/tsunami_ind
ex.asp