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National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, formerly known as the National Disaster Coordinating Council until August 2011, is a working group of various government, non-government, civil sector and private sector organizations of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines established on June 11, 1978 by Presidential Decree 1566.
Disaster risk reduction
It is possible to include DRR in almost all areas of development and humanitarian work.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
created in December 1999 to ensure the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (General Assembly resolution 54/219).UNISDR Mandate UNISDR, Retrieved 14 August 2015
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
an international document that was adopted by the United Nations member states between 14 and 18 March 2015 at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai, Japan, and endorsed by the UN General Assembly in June 2015.
Relative risk reduction
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