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Located on two sites in the centre of Santiago, Bernardo O'Higgins University is one of many Chilean institutions to have taken its name from the Irish-born leader of the nation’s early 19th Century liberation from Spanish colonial rule.
A private institution, it was founded in 1990 with a single school of commercial engineering, adding law the following year. In 2018 its 23 undergraduate courses were offered by four faculties – social science, engineering, science and technology and education and health, with a significant part of its recent development, such as the addition of obstetrics and childcare in 2015, in the field of health.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.