Asian ministerial conference for disaster risk reduction (AMCDRR) is an intergovernmental conference held to discuss disaster mitigation. Its inaugural meeting was held in
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
, in August 2005, after the adoption of
Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015). The conference has been held seven times in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (
UNISDR
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) was created in December 1999 to ensure the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. ). The motive of such conference was to mitigate the disaster risks. After the Indian Ocean tsunami came in 2004, India was among the five countries that were very badly impacted and took prime initiative to endorse for creating new laws for disaster risk management.
The other six Asian Ministerial Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction Disaster risk reduction aims to make disasters less likely to happen. The approach, also called DRR or disaster risk management, also aims to make disasters less damaging when they do occur. DRR aims to make communities stronger and better prepared ...
held in past are as follows:
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
in 2005
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India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
in 2007
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
in 2008
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Republic of Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
in 2010
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Indonesia
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in 2012
The Sixth meeting was held in
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...
in 2014.
Objectives
* Transforming the commitments made in Sendai by the governments into visible action.
* Deciding the direction for implementation and monitoring of the Sendai Framework.
Agenda
A ten point agenda was set.
''First,'' development projects will be built to appropriate standards. The new infrastructure should be planned under standards of disaster safety and technologies of disaster resilient .
''Second,'' insurance coverage to all should be there, whether poor or rich. The
Suraksha Bima Yojana acts as a tool to give risk insurance to millions.
''Third,'' to ensure greater involvement and leadership of women in disaster risk management.
''Fourth,'' is to identify Seismic zones based on high and low risk and map the risks globally.
''Fifth,'' to map and exchange expertise, technology and resources in a collaborative way that would go a long way in maximizing the collective impact.
''Sixth,'' to make universities for disaster issues in coastal region and the hill cities.
''Seventh'' to utilize the social media in transforming the disaster response.
''Eight'', to enhance local capacity based on using the best traditional practices.
''Ninth'' is learning from every disaster. Research should be done and papers should be released so that more preparedness can be kept when same kind of tragedy happens again.
Tenth, bring about greater cooperation among international response to disasters.
Outcomes
Many years of data have proved that tsunamis can badly impact most regions of the world and there is a need of urgent response to mitigate the disaster risks.
The outcomes include the New Delhi Declaration, which endorses the governments to actively participate to preventing and decreasing risks and strengthening resilience among nations of the Asian region with adopted approach of shared responsibility.
References
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External links
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Emergency organizations
United Nations conferences