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results already achieved, and calls for actions at all levels for their further
development and implementation.
Disaster risk reduction
186. We reaffirm our commitment to the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015:
Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, 50 and call for
States, the United Nations system, the international financial institutions,
subregional, regional and international organizations and civil society to accelerate
implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and the achievement of its
goals. We call for disaster risk reduction and the building of resilience to disasters to
be addressed with a renewed sense of urgency in the context of sustainable
development and poverty eradication and, as appropriate, to be integrated into
policies, plans, programmes and budgets at all levels and considered within relevant
future frameworks. We invite governments at all levels, as well as relevant
subregional, regional and international organizations, to commit to adequate, timely
and predictable resources for disaster risk reduction in order to enhance the
resilience of cities and communities to disasters, according to their own
circumstances and capacities.
187. We recognize the importance of early warning systems as part of effective
disaster risk reduction at all levels in order to reduce economic and social damages,
including the loss of human life, and in this regard encourage States to integrate
such systems into their national disaster risk reduction strategies and plans. We
encourage donors and the international community to enhance international
cooperation in support of disaster risk reduction in developing countries, as
appropriate, through technical assistance, technology transfer as mutually agreed,
capacity-building and training programmes. We further recognize the importance of
comprehensive hazard and risk assessments, and knowledge- and informationsharing, including reliable geospatial information. We commit to undertake and
strengthen in a timely manner risk assessment and disaster risk reduction
instruments.
188. We stress the importance of stronger interlinkages among disaster risk
reduction, recovery and long-term development planning, and call for more
coordinated and comprehensive strategies that integrate disaster risk reduction and
climate change adaptation considerations into public and private investment,
decision-making and the planning of humanitarian and development actions, in
order to reduce risk, increase resilience and provide a smoother transition between
relief, recovery and development. In this regard, we recognize the need to integrate
a gender perspective into the design and implementation of all phases of disaster
risk management.
189. We call for all relevant stakeholders, including governments, international,
regional and subregional organizations, the private sector and civil society, to take
appropriate and effective measures, taking into account the three dimensions of
sustainable development, including by strengthening coordination and cooperation
to reduce exposure to risk for the protection of people, and infrastructure and other
national assets, from the impact of disasters, in line with the Hyogo Framework for
Action and any post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction.
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