What is the Full Form of UNISDR?

Today we will talk about UNDRR, History and its full form? The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. UNDRR is part of the United Nations Secretariat. It promotes the implementation & evaluation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction chosen by the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction on 18 March 2015 in Sendai, Japan.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction is led by a United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction (SRSG) and has over 100 staff.

UNDRR Overview

Here in this section, we are providing a short overview of UNDRR (United Nations Human Settlements Programme). Let’s have a look.

UNDRR	United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Headquarters	Geneva, Switzerland
Formation	1999
Parent organization	United Nations
Type	Programme
Status	Active
Head	Mami Mizutori
Website	https://www.undrr.org/

History of UNDRR

Particulars	Year
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction	1989
First World Conference on Disaster Reduction and the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World	1994
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)	1999
The Johannesburg Plan of Action	2002
Second World Conference on Disaster Reduction and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015	2005
The first session of the Global Platform on Disaster Reduction	2007
Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011-2020	2011
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – Rio+20	2012
Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States and the SIDS ACCELERATED MODALITIES OF ACTION (S.A.M.O.A.) Pathway	2014
Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030	2015

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