International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

A/RES/51/185View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97f International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, published in 1997.

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13 documents · 1988–1997

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1997	A/RES/51/185	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	855	–
1996	A/RES/50/117[B]	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	—	–
1996	A/RES/50/117[A]	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	—	–
1996	A/RES/50/117	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	2,047	–
1995	A/RES/49/22B	International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	461	–

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13 subjects

Capacity Building Disaster Preparedness Disaster Prevention Early Warning Systems Financing International Decades Landlocked Developing Countries Least Developed Countries Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Small Island Developing States Technology Transfer Trust Funds

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14 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;²

²A/51/186-E/1996/80.

Reaffirms that disaster reduction forms an integral part of sustainable development strategies and national development plans of vulnerable countries and communities;

Calls upon all States, relevant intergovernmental bodies and all others involved in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction to participate actively in the financial and technical support for Decade activities, in order to ensure the implementation of the International Framework of Action for the Decade,³in particular with a view to translating the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation and the Plan of Action contained therein⁴into concrete disaster reduction programmes and activities;

³See resolution 44/236, annex.

⁴A/CONF.172/9, chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.

Commends all countries, in particular those developing and least developed countries, that have mobilized domestic resources for disaster reduction activities and have facilitated the effective implementation of such activities, and encourages all developing countries concerned to continue in this direction;

Reaffirms the need to support the implementation of the Yokohama Strategy and its Plan of Action with particular regard to improving education and training in disaster reduction, including the creation of interdisciplinary and technical networking at all levels, for the purpose of capacity-building and human resources development in developing countries, in particular those that are prone to natural disasters, as well as least developed, small island developing and landlocked countries;

Welcomes the initiatives aimed at defining regional frameworks for disaster mitigation, such as the regional seminars held in Africa and the Mediterranean;

Stresses the need for synergy between the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States⁵and that of the Yokohama Strategy and its Plan of Action as they relate to natural disaster reduction;

⁵Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April-6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.

Underlines the need for the United Nations system to ensure the integration of the Yokohama Strategy and its Plan of Action into the coordinated approach taken to the follow-up to all recent major United Nations conferences and summit meetings and to the implementation of their respective plans of action;

Invites the Secretary-General, in particular, to facilitate, within the existing International Framework of Action for the Decade, an internationally concerted framework for improvements in early warning by developing a concrete proposal for an effective international mechanism on early warning, to include the transfer of technologies related to early warning to developing countries, under the auspices of the United Nations and as part of the implementation of the International Framework of Action for the Decade and the Yokohama Strategy and its Plan of Action;

Calls upon the secretariat of the Decade to continue to facilitate a concerted international approach to improvements in early warning capacities for natural disasters and similar disasters with adverse impact on the environment within the process leading towards the closing event of the Decade;

Recommends that adequate consideration be given to the International Framework of Action for the Decade as part of the evaluation and overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21⁶in 1997;

⁶Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol. I and Vol. I/Corr.1, Vol. II, Vol. III and Vol. III/Corr.1)) (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions Adopted by the Conference, resolution 1, annex II.

Reaffirms that the secretariat of the Decade will continue to serve as the substantive secretariat for the preparation of the closing event of the Decade, working with the full support of relevant bodies of the United Nations Secretariat and drawing on the contributions of the organizations of the United Nations system concerned, other international organizations and Governments;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to appeal for additional voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund for the Decade;

Also requests the Secretary-General to bring forward, as a first step in the process leading towards the closing event of the Decade and in order to begin the preparatory process in 1998, proposals arising from consultation with interested parties, and to set forth in his substantive report to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session proposals regarding the format, substance and timing of the event, also taking into account, inter alia, the need to review relationships and responsibilities relevant to natural disaster reduction with respect to the future and the performance capability of the secretariat of the Decade.

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