Situation Awareness list.
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MAJOR EU BOOST FOR DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA
14
July 2015, ADDIS ABABA – Details of an €80
million package of support from the European Union to disaster risk management
across sub-Saharan Africa over the next five years, were unveiled today at the
Financing for Development Conference.
Margareta Wahlström, the head of the UN Office
for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), said: “This is a strategic long-term
investment in building resilience in Africa. It will help to reduce mortality
and economic losses by improving preparedness, early warning systems and
putting in place systems for understanding how disaster losses are generated in
order to avoid them in the future.”
Roberto
Ridolfi, Director for Sustainable Growth and Development in Europeaid, said:
"Resilience has many facets. Natural and climate related hazards dominate
the disaster profile of Sub Saharan African. A holistic approach to building
disaster resilience and to secure development gains in Africa, based on
accurate risk information and improved decision support systems, is therefore
necessary – and with this programme we will make an important contribution to
achieve this goal."
The
programme “Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan
African Regions, Countries and Communities”, an initiative of the African,
Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, will be financed by the European Union
within the frame of the 10th European Development Fund...........
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Africa disaster reduction fund is major new step
ADDIS
ABABA, 14 July 2015 –
An €80-million package of funds from the European Union to support disaster
risk management across Sub-Saharan Africa was unveiled today at the 3rd
International Conference on Financing for Development, winning praise for its
potential impact...
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more at: http://www.unisdr.org/archive/45134
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