WCDRR-Voxies

Delegates attending the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction which concludes yesterday in Sendai Japan say they hope that policies agreed on there will result in tangible solutions for countries prone and dealing with disasters. Studies have found that even where countries have developed policies and institutional systems for disaster risk reduction, they are challenged to address risk accumulation on the ground. This consequently challenges governments' ability to accurately account for disaster risk in investment and development decisions. Member states of the UN Office for disaster are expected to adopt a guideline known as the Hyogo Framework 2, that will pave the way for the coming ten years on how countries should integrate multi-disciplinary approaches in their disaster risk reduction measures. This is what some of them had to say