Humanitarian and Development Partners Agree on Concrete Steps to Tackle Disasters
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2012/091/GFDRR
Commitment follows agreement this week to make resilience to disasters an urgent global priority
WASHINGTON, DC, September 23, 2011—In an unprecedented move, seven key global partners committed today to work together in the planning and financing of disaster risk reduction and resilience strategies in critical disaster hotspots around the world. In addition to the President of the World Bank, the major global development and humanitarian partners speaking at the event included, the Minister of Finance, Japan; the President of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency; the EU’s Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response; the UK Secretary of State for International Development; the UN Development Programme Administrator; the US Agency for International Development Administrator; and the UN’s Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.