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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster RiskReduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2
Mami Mizotori, the Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster RiskReduction (UNDRR) stated in the mid-term report of the Sendai Framework that "progress [in implementing the SFDRR] has stalled and, in some cases, reversed". For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. The local level.
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Myth 10: After disaster people will not make rational decisions and will therefore inevitably tend to do the wrong thing unless authority guides them. Reality: Emergencyresponse should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Within this compass, most decision-making can be judged rational.
All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. Civil protection must be developed at the local authority level, coordinated regionally and harmonised nationally. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergencyresponse plans.
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