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- Summary:
- This document provides an enumeration of the Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action to prevent, prepare for, and mitigate disasters. It presents the principles undergirding the strategy, the various activities that it calls for, and important follow-up actions. As it reached midway into what the United Nation’s declared the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), the 1990s, and the human and economic losses related to disasters continued to rise, the international community came together in Yokohama, Japan in 1994 to declare a renewed effort to reduce disaster risks around the world. This document focuses on converting the international framework established for the IDNDR into a plan of action. The first section outlines the principles of the plan, the basis for action, the status of DRR at the midpoint of the IDNDR, and the strategy for implementing DRR in the upcoming decade. Among the major principles of the Plan of Action presented, a few are particularly of note: that risk assessment is necessary for successful implementation of DRR; that it is critical that DRR is integrated into development planning at all levels of government; and that environmental protection and poverty alleviation are necessary components to DRR and by extension sustainable development. The second section presents specific recommendations for action at the national, regional, and international levels. The final section deals with follow-up actions such as establishment of an annual report to the UN General Assembly on progress towards implementation of the Yokohama Strategy utilizing information provided by national governments, regional and international organizations, and non-governmental organizations. Written in 1994, the content of this document may seem dated but not irrelevant. Much of its proposals have not, or have only recently, been implemented, namely the complete involvement and active participation of local communities in DRR and DRM and the systematic inclusion of DRR in multilateral and bilateral development policies respectively. The assessment observed that knowledge of DRR’s benefits were confined to specialized groups and not the rest of society, even though training in DRR had resulted in positive outcomes in some regions. It particularly identifies the need to increase resilience and capacity at the local level by integrating local traditional knowledge and practices for reducing the impact of disasters on communities into mainstream DRR and development activities. ( , )
- Subject:
- General Risk Reduction
- Citation/Reference:
- (1994). Yokohama strategy and plan of action for a safer world: guidelines to natural disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation [Part 1]. World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction.
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- Florida International University
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- FI13042666
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