Kenya: International Day for Disaster Reduction 2016 Celebrations
National International Day for Disaster Reduction Celebrations
Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) encourages every individual, community and government to take part in building more disaster resilient communities and nations. UNISDR launched a step-up initiative in 2011, focusing on a different group of partners every year in the lead up to the World Conference for Disaster Reduction in 2015: children and young people (2011), women and girls (2012), people living with disabilities (2013), the ageing population (2014), and traditional, indigenous and local knowledge (2015).
The 2016 edition marks the launch of a new, seven-year campaign focused on the seven targets of the Sendai Framework:
- Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030,
- Substantially reduce the number of affected people globally by 2030,
- Reduce direct disaster economic loss in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030,
- Substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services, among them health and educational facilities, including through developing their resilience by 2030,
- Substantially increase the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020,
- Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of this Framework by 2030, and
- Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments to the people by 2030.
The theme for IDDR 2016 is Live to tell: Reducing global disaster mortality.
What's Included
National celebrations for the International Day for Disaster Reduction are planned to take place back to back with the fourth national symposium on Disaster Risk Reduction on Thursday, 13 October 2016, Central Park, Nanyuki, Laikipia County.
How to Attend
The event is open to the public and there is no fee.