Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in Asia and the Pacific: follow-up to the outcome of the third Asian Ministerial Conference on disaster risk reduction - from the regional to the global platform
E/ESCAP/CDR/INF/4 - Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction, First session, 25-27 March 2009, Bangkok:
This document presents the interim progress in the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in some countries of the Asia and the Pacific region. It also presents key challenges and gaps against the HFA strategic goals in the countries of the region.
The Hyogo Framework for Action emphasizes the need to monitor and review progress in disaster risk reduction not only to document the good implementation of the Framework but to feed into informed disaster risk reduction planning and programming at national, sub-national and regional levels.
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