International Day for Disaster Reduction 2018: All you need to Know

International Day of Disaster Reduction (IDDR) started in 1989, right after a direction by the United Nations General Assembly for a day for the promotion of risk-awareness and disaster reduction across continents. It was at first said to be on done on every second Wednesdays of the month of October but it was later fixed for every 13th of the same month. This had come into effect in order to find a way to lessen the loss caused through disasters worldwide.

The day celebrates how people and communities in different societies are ameliorating their exposure to disasters and raising their consciousness in surmounting in the risks that they are battling with at their different locations wherever. This year’s, (2018) edition, as quoted from IDDR’s website, “continues as part of ‘Sendai Seven’ campaign, centered on the seven target of the Sendai Framework. This year will focus on Target C of the Sendai Framework, reducing disaster economic losses in relation to global GDP by 2030.” 2016 saw to its launch by UNISDR centered on the same seven targets, of which the first is ameliorating disaster mortality around the globe: this has claimed the lives of many around the continents worldwide, leaving no age class behind. Disaster as we would be aware of, knows know age. It has got no conscience as people do. So, its victims are never picked at random. This reason and more are the reasons which make the IDDR to case it a thing of responsibility to put this under consideration first, for the sake of the safety of all or any.

More over, last year’s was targeted at prevention, protection and reducing the number of head count affected by disasters. These are necessary considerations by the IDDR in order to wade in with their aiding hands to help make things better and life what living for the victims. They try and pose as rather the last resort for relief from the existence of the international body to the area, locality, community or the society affected by the disaster of whatever sort.

The Sendai Seven Campaign is an occasion for all and sundry, more directly, governments, grass-root government, community groups, civil society associations, the privy sectors, the international organisation and the UN (United Nations) family to advance best practices, at the international, local and national level across all the sectors, in order to help ameliorate the risk of losses and risks of disaster.

-JODEKSS

Source: http://widestforum.com/essays/international-day-for-disaster-reduction-2018-all-you-need-to-know/msg15990/#msg15990