South-South exchange at Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management meeting

Ms. Margareta Wahlstrom, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, delivered a video message for the opening of the 3rd Session of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in Auckland, New Zealand, which aims to review the progress of disaster risk management in the Pacific between 2009 and 2011, and to work towards mainstreaming disaster risk considerations into national planning processes and integrating current regional policy frameworks for disaster risk management and climate change.