Efforts to reduce losses caused by natural disasters

KABUL (SW): Efforts are underway to drastically reduce mortalities and material losses by 2030 caused by the natural disasters, officials at the National Disasters Management Authority (NDMA) noted on Sunday.

Experts and officials shared their views in this regard at the two-day National Consultation on Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at national and local level. Wais Ahmad Barmak, state minister for the NDMA, said on the occasion that the aim behind this workshop is to create enabling environment for risk mitigation and spread awareness about the Sendai Framework.

The Sendai Framework is a 15-year, voluntary, non-binding agreement which recognizes that state has the primary role to reduce disaster risk but that responsibility should be shared with other stakeholders including local government, the private sector and other stakeholders. It aims at substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries.

On behalf of Focus Humanitarian Assistance and Aghan Khan Agency for Habitat, Hadi Hosani vowed to provide technical assistance for the implementation of Sendai Framework in Pakistan. He said efforts are underway to drastically reduce mortalities and material losses by 2030 caused by the natural disasters.

Afghanistan has ratified the Sendai Framework also ratified by some 187 other countries in March 2015.

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