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UN launches new global data collection tool to help reduce disaster, losses
02.03.2018 12:41 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of this week, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has launched a historic new effort to collect comprehensive global data on disaster losses, UN Radio reports.
As to the report, it goes about the fact that the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda) has created its online tool: The Sendai Framework Monitor.
«It is impossible to prevent disasters and to manage risk if a country is not measuring its disaster losses, particularly at the local level, for both small-scale and large-scale events,» Mami Mizutori, UN Secretary-General’s newly appointed Special Representative of the for Disaster Risk Reduction, has admitted.
«Such losses are a great setback for efforts to eradicate poverty,» she added.
It is to be admitted, this tool captures data on the achievement of the Framework’s five targets of reducing mortality from disasters; the numbers of disaster affected people; economic losses; and reducing damage to critical infrastructure; along with recording, the number of countries with national and local strategies for disaster risk reduction.
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