Dear All,
In September 2005, world leaders will meet again in New York for a summit to
review the MDGs. In January 2005, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction
called for a stronger link between internationally agreed development goals
and disaster risk reduction. The ISDR Secretariat is hosting an online
dialogue on the mainstreaming of Disaster Risk Reduction into strategies to
attain the Millennium Development Goals. The dialogue opens on the 12th of
July and will continue for a period of three weeks.
The objective of the online conference is to provide a forum to exchange
views on how disaster risk reduction should be better represented in the
Millennium Development Goals; both for the current targets and the
indicators as well as to identify how the MDGs can be closer linked to the
implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015. It seeks to
bring into the process voices from varied professional, geographical and
institutional groups.
A framework for the online dialogue has been provided as an attachment to
this email. It outlines the two broad areas of the discussion and the
specific questions we would like contributors to the dialogue to address.
The two key areas which the conference seeks to address are, firstly, how to
make the MDGs indicators more sensitive to Disaster Risk Reduction and,
secondly, how to better incorporate Disaster Risk Reduction into the ‘areas
of intervention’ to achieve the MDGs.
You are invited to provide comments on how disaster risk reduction should be
better represented in the Millennium Development Goals; both for the current
targets and the indicators as well as for how the MDGs can be closer linked
to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015.
We are interested in your views on both the content and the actual processes
of how to move forward with the integration, particularly with reference to
the MDG indicators and areas of intervention to achieve the MDGs.
It will be necessary to fill in an online registration form in order to post
opinions on the website (www.unisdr.org/mdgs-drr). The dialogue will be
moderated by Praveen Pardeshi at the ISDR. Please send your comments to:
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Best regards,
Praveen Pardeshi
Email forwarded by Stefanie Dannenmann
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