International Day For Disaster Risk Reduction Is Recognized On 13 October

International Day For Disaster Risk Reduction is Witnessed On 13 October by the united nations.

Highlights

The Day is commemorated to acknowledge the progress of reducing disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and Health.

Theme for 2021 focuses on International cooperation for developing countries to reduce their disaster risk and disaster losses.

The Year 2021 guarantees to be a make or break year when delivering on the policy agenda agreed in 2015.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction plans seven clear targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks

The Frame was adopted at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan, on 18 March 2015.