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Footprints - Newsletter of the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network

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Bula Vinaka and Welcome to Footprints – the official newsletter of the Pacific Disaster Risk Management Partnership Network. Since reintroducing the newsletter in the last quarter of 2007, we have ‘reinvented’ the publication in an effort to be more reader-friendly in 2010. The changes include a new layout. The title reflects the collective ‘steps’ taken by the partners, working with Pacific island country representatives, toward achieving the desired outcomes of the Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management Framework for Action 2005-2015.In taking each step we leave behind ‘footprints’ as a record of where we have been, what we have done and what we have accomplished. I invite all partners to contribute regularly to Footprints.

Mosese Sikivou
Programme Manager - Community Risk

IN THIS ISSUE

  • Next Round of Progress Reporting against the Hyogo Framework for Action
  • Launch of the biennial progress review of the Pacific DRR & DM Framework for Action and the HFA
  • Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific
  • Update on Tsunami Capacity Assessments and follow on projects for Pacific island countries
  • Building Back Better
  • The Pacific Humanitarian Team and the Regional Cluster approach
  • Pacific-Caribbean? dialogue on disaster risk management for small islands
  • Scientists gather information for disaster preparedness
  • Review of the Palau National Disaster Risk Management Framework 2010
  • Domestic Legal Preparedness for Foreign Disaster Assistance in the Pacific
  • UNDP delivers Early Recovery Training for UNDP staff and Government counterparts
  • Seeking Post-Disaster? Indirect and Intangible Loss Indicators
  • Standardisation of the Samoa fire fighting fleet

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Last Updated on Sunday, 20 June 2010 12:09  

Newsflash

Pacific Island delegates told participants attending the Third Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction that their countries and territories remain highly disaster prone and that the region is threatened by a variety of natural hazards of geological and meteorological origin, according to Dr. Russell Howorth, Director SOPAC, a division of SPC.Dr. Howorth was part of the Pacific delegation included in the 2,700 representatives from 168 governments who attended the conference convened by the UN International Secretariat for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR) in Geneva 9-13 May.

UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon, who was the keynote speaker, noted that the aim of the conference was to reduce disaster risk through technology, knowledge and economic tools, and called for accelerating efforts in building resilience and a coalition of action for disaster risk reduction.