Esteban -
I really am trying. It tells me that when I try to upload the adobe file
that the file contains no data. But of course it does. What do I do?
Susi
Esteban Leon wrote:
>Dear Sirs/Madams,
>
>On behalf of the Secretariat for the United Nations-International Strategy
>for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), UN-HABITAT are resepectfully requesting your
>assistance in collecting functional tools you are willing to share, that
>assist local communities, as well as municipal and national governments, in
>reducing the impacts of disasters.
>
>Some background...:
>
>The ISDR Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction has established a
>number of working groups to follow up on the initiatives developed during
>the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR).
>
>Working Group three (WG3) of the ISDR-IATF, has as it's main objective "to
>advance knowledge on the development and application of data and tools for
>risk/vulnerability assessment and reduction." Its members consist of over
>twenty representatives of UN Agencies, international NGOs and related
>regional and national bodies world-wide. The work of the working group
>focuses on understanding the needs for effective risk management,
>particularly from the local and national level, on small and medium-scale
>disasters and on the socio-economic impact and environmental risks and
>associated impacts of disasters.
>
>WG3 agreed to focus its work on three main activities:
>
> The exchange of information on on-going activities for data gathering
> and for the development of indicators and indexes for global risk
> assessment;
> The review of selected practices on the application of
> risk-vulnerability-assessment tools at the local level;
> The harmonisation of criteria for the development of a
> risk-vulnerability index compatible with other indexes currently applied
> on the social and economic development context.
>
>UN-HABITAT in collaboration with UNDP has taken the lead in the development
>of a programme of activities for a "Register" of tools and practices for
>risk-vulnerability-assessment at national, sub-national and local level.
>
>This will produce the following results:
>
> A "compendium" of tools and practices for risk-vulnerability-assessment
> at national, sub-national and local level.
> Annotated comments, which accompany the register assisting the user with
> identifying appropriate tools by describing their purpose, the
> situations they have been applied in, and the decision-making processes
> they can support.
> An enhanced accessibility for local decision-makers and "users" to
> available tools.
> An "on line" feedback mechanism for users and decision-makers to comment
> directly to the tool owner/operator and the registry about constraints
> and contexts that their tool must reflect.
> A "Network and referral facility" of practitioners and institutions
> active in the area of risk assessment.
>
>The main objective is to promote the application of improved practices for
>risk-vulnerability-assessment at the local, sub-national and national
>level.
>
>UN-HABITAT, in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre
>(ADPC) and the Organisation of American States (OAS) has begun the
>execution of activities in order to reach this objective.
>
>How you can assist:
>
>A web-site for this collection of tools has been created:
>
>http://hq.unhabitat.org/rdmu/isdr/default.asp
>
>(It is in the UN-HABITAT website (www.unhabitat.org), under Programmes/Risk
>and Disaster Management Unit (RDMU) section page and you will see a link on
>your left entitled "Disaster Vulnerability Assessment Tools (IATF WG3)".
>Click on that and you should get the WG3 site.)
>
>The website is interactive, and there are instructions for both finding
>tools, and adding them, as well as a web-dialogue function for commentary.
>All material gathered will be appropriately credited to the
>institution/expert of origin, and will be made available to others. In case
>you do not have any material but you know other institutions or experts
>that might be interested in contributing, please feel free to forward this
>note.
>
>We look forward to your co-operation in this endeavour and to our future
>collaboration in activities of common interest.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Esteban León
>
>Disaster, Post-conflict and Safety Section
>Urban Development Branch - Global Division
>United Nations Human Settlement Programmes (UN-HABITAT)
>P.O. Box 30030, Nairobi, Kenya
>Tel: (254-2) 624191
>Fax: (254-2) 624263/623685
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