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Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World - Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation

Report
United Nations
This document provides guidelines for natural disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation.

Part I describes the principles on which a disaster reduction strategy should be based.
Part II is a plan of action agreed upon by all member states of the United Nations
Part III gives some guidelines concerning the follow-up of action.

This document is the output of the World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, held in Yokohama, Japan, from 23 May to 27 May 1994.
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Indonesia East Java Floods Apr 1994 UN DHA Information Report 1

DHA-GENEVA 94/0159

INDONESIA - EAST JAVA FLOODS
DHA-GENEVA INFORMATION REPORT NO. 1
25 APRIL 1994

1. AFTER PROLONGED, SEVERE MONSOON RAINS IN EAST JAVA, BENGAWAN SOLO RIVER OVERFLOWED AND INUNDATED 5 DISTRICTS (NGAWI, TUBAN, BOJONEGORO, GRESIK AND LAMONGAN) STARTING LATE MARCH. FLOODS NOW RECEDING, HOWEVER RAINS CONTINUING. UN/DHA RESIDENT COORDINATOR REPORTS THAT HEAVY RAINS/FLOODING NOT UNUSUAL IN MONSOON SEASON, BUT CURRENT FLOODS ARE WORST SO FAR EXPERIENCED.

2. FOLLOWING DAMAGE REPORTED IN
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Ecuador - Galapagos Islands Forest Fire Apr 1994 UN DHA Situation Report No. 1

DHA-GENEVA 94/0156
ECUADOR - GALAPAGOS ISLANDS FOREST FIRE
DHA-GENEVA SITUATION REPORT NO.1
21 APRIL 1994

1. ON BEHALF OF THE UNEP/UNITED NATIONS CENTRE FOR URGENT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE (UNCUEA), DHA HEREBY TRANSMITS SITUATION REPORT NO.1, PROVIDING INFORMATION ON FOREST FIRE, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR. THIS REPORT WAS PREPARED BY UNEP/UNCUEA BASED UPON DATA RECEIVED FROM UNDP/DHA OFFICE IN ECUADOR.

2. INTERESTED DONORS SHOULD ADDRESS ANY TECHNICAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING THIS DISASTER AND ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS TO UNEP/UNCUEA, GENEVA.

SITUATION

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After Mobutu, what next?

Report
Africanews
by Uta J. Chimurenga (1,137 words)
Zaire without Mobutu Sese Seko seems to many a foregone conclusion. If Africa's longest-ruling autocrat does not cave in to the rapidly -advancing rebel forces of Laurent-Desire Kabila - he certainly will succumb to sheer human mortality.

Ailing with prostate cancer, the former army colonel who seized power in a coup in 1965 and declared himself Sese Seko wa Zabanga (comically translated as the untiring cock among hens) is now confronting the reality of his mortality. Mobutu has spent the better

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Philippines Tropical Storm Owen Apr 1994 UN DHA Information Report 1

DHA GENEVA 94/0098

PHILIPPINES
TROPICAL STORM OWEN
DHA-GENEVA INFORMATION REPORT N. 1
9 APRIL 1994

1. FIRST PASSAGE OF TROPICAL STORM OWEN FOLLOWED BY HEAVY RAINS SEVERELY AFFECTED NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, CEBU, SURIGAO DEL SUR, PALAWAN AND CALAIAN GROUP SINCE 4 APRIL 1994 AND IS MOVING TOWARDS SOUTH EASTERN CHINA.

2. GOVERNMENT REPORTS 10 PERSONS DEAD, 33 INJURED AND 5 MISSING, TOTAL AFFECTED POPULATION 46,500 PERSONS (9,100 FAMILIES),360 HOUSES TOTALLY DESTROYED, 3,100 HOUSES DAMAGED AS WELL AS
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Quadripartite agreement on voluntary return of refugees and displaced persons signed on 4 April 1994

The Abkhaz and Georgian sides, hereinafter referred to as the Parties, the Russian Federation and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
Recalling Security Council resolutions 849 (1993) of 9 July 1993, 854 (1993) of 6 August 1993, 858 (1993) of 24 August 1993, 876 (1993) of 19 October 1993, 892 (1993) of 22 December 1993, 896 (1994) of 31 January 1994, 901 (1994) of 4 March 1994 and 906 (1994) of 25 March 1994,

Recognizing that the right of all citizens to live in and to return to their country of origin is enshrined in the

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Consolidated Appeal Process Guidelines (1994)

This document is a set of guidelines for the Consolidated Appeal Process. The first part of the document consists in a set of assumptions and definitions. The second part offers an overview the five main stages of the CAP:

- Pre-disaster planning
- Assessments
- Strategic planning
- Consolidated inter-angency appeal
- Post appeal follow-up activities.