The Global Alliance for disaster risk reduction: building safer, resilient communities
This document presents the International Federation's concern about disaster management and priority to ensure that disaster risk reduction is an integral part of its development work and that all its programmes work towards disaster risk reduction in an integrated and mutually supportive way.
Through this document, the International Federation ensures its support to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015 adopted in January 2005 by the World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in Kobe, Japan. Thus, consistent with the HFA, the purpose of this Global Alliance is to scale up the International Federation’s effort in reducing disaster risks among the most vulnerable communities where National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies operate.
This will be done through mobilizing the International Federation’s global, regional, national, and local capacities and mechanisms, especially for disaster preparedness and response, to progress three programmatic outputs:
- To increase community orientation in global and national disaster risk reduction policies and strengthen national and local institutions for disaster risk reduction.
- To encourage and support expanded community based programming to identify and tackle disaster risks.
- To integrate enhanced community-centered disaster risk reduction measures as part of comprehensive disaster response management whenever this is applied.