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STORY: UN / DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
TRT: 1.21
SOURCE: UNTV / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 16 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
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1. Exterior shot, UN Headquarters
16 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English), Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“In 2015, we will see the culmination of the Hyogo Framework for Action. This ten-year plan gave the world a common approach. Since then, countries have made great strides in monitoring risks, enhancing preparedness and improving early warning.”
4. Cutaway, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English), Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“Our post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction should be based on evidence, experience and aspirations. The aim is simple: to leave a more resilient world to future generations. To achieve this, we must factor disaster risk into our broader discussions of the post-2015 agenda for sustainable development.”
ILO - 22 NOVEMBER 2013, TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES
6. Aerial shot, shoreline
7. Driving shot, destruction caused by Typhoon Haiyan
UNDP - 25 NOVEMBER, 2013, TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES
6. Wide shot, destruction
7. Med shot, destroyed house
Briefing Member States of the UN General Assembly on the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that thanks to Hyogo Framework for Action, which had establish a common approach in reducing risk of disaster BACK IN 2005, “countries have made great strides in monitoring risks, enhancing preparedness and improving early warning”.
“We need to factor risk disaster into broader discussion of the post-2015 agenda for sustainable development in order to leave a more resilient world to future generations” - said Ban.
The Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) is a 10-years plan that aimed to explain, describe and detail the work that is required from all different sectors and actors to reduce disaster losses.
It was developed and agreed on with the many partners needed to reduce disaster risk - governments, international agencies, disaster experts and many others - bringing them into a common system of coordination.
The HFA outlines five priorities for action, and offers guiding principles and practical means for achieving disaster resilience. Its goal was to substantially reduce disaster losses by 2015 by building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.
This means reducing loss of lives and social, economic, and environmental assets when hazards strike.
The United Nations efforts to reduce disaster risk are based on the knowledge and experience of countries and other stakeholders over the past several decades.
Milestones include the 1990s being declared the international decade for natural disaster reduction, the adoption of the International Framework for Action for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, the Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World adopted by the 1st World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, the endorsement of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) at the 2nd World Conference on Disaster Reduction.
