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The second annual Disaster Preparedness Forum hosted by CSR Asia and sponsored by the Prudence Foundation builds on the success of the first Disaster Preparedness Forum (DPF) held in Jakarta in November 2013. The Forum brings together key leaders in business, humanitarian, NGO and government sectors across the Asia-Pacific region. The aim of this year’s event is to explore and discuss opportunities for cooperation on disaster recovery with a focus on building capacities well before a disaster occurs.
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The 23rd SRA-Europe conference will be held 16-18 June 2014 in Istanbul, Turkey and hosted by Istanbul Technical University. The special theme of the conference is “Analysis and Governance of Risks beyond Boundaries”
• to emphasize that risks are able to travel through the virtual boundaries labeled as “regions”, “territories” and “countries”, • to promote recent scientific novelties in risk reduction and • to enhance inter-disciplinary approaches to develop new strategies in both evaluating and coping with well-known and less-known risks.
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The Sixth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, hosted by the Royal Government of Thailand will be held in Bangkok, Thailand on 22-26 June 2014 . The Conference will be a venue for countries, organizations and individual practitioners to meet and discuss the way forward in reducing disaster risk in the region. It will also be the final regional inter-governmental meeting in Asia before the completion of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-15 and the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015.
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The IRDR Programme, in partnership with the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), will host the 2nd IRDR Conference, under the theme "Integrated Disaster Risk Science: A Tool for Sustainability" from 7 to 9 June 2014 at the Beijing International Convention Center (BICC) in Beijing, China.
The Conference will place emphasis on the importance of science as a tool to address hazard risks and issues of sustainable development.
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The 20th Regional Disaster Managers Meeting will provide the opportunity for the Heads of National Disaster Management Offices throughout the Pacific region to have open discussions and exchange of ideas with SPC and other partner organisations on different aspects of DRM capacity building. It will also provide for the first Regional Steering Committee of the EDF10 ACP-EU Project: Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific.
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About seven months after Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) left a trail of devastation in its wake, the Philippines will host the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management from June 4 to 6, 2014. Around 150 senior government officials, scientists, academics, policymakers, industry and business leaders, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and representatives of regional and international organizations from Asia and Europe will gather in Manila to discuss how best to handle future mega-disasters.
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The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) are pleased to announce the 2014 meeting of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management which will be held from 2nd – 4th June 2014 at the Novotel Hotel in Suva, Fiji.
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The Fifth Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is being organised, under the leadership of the African Union Commission at Abuja, Nigeria on 13 - 16 May 2014 to develop the Africa contribution to the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction to be considered at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and its Preparatory Committee meetings.
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1. Africa contribution to the post-2015 framework and associated monitoring system.
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The theme of the conference is "Building Disaster Resilient Communities".
The focus of the conference builds on opportunities through science and technology, political will and behaviour change to address current crises and reduce risks for future generations. Whilst knowledge about the nature and context of disasters has proliferated, many potential actions for integrated disaster reduction remain far from realised.
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