"India First Country to Draw up Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction" - UNISDR
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It is in the news because representatives of 176 countries, including more than 50 ministers and at least seven heads of state, are attending the global platform (22-26 May 2017) here organised by the UN's Office for Disaster Risk Reduction( UNISDR). The Indian delegation is led by Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju.
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At the global platform, countries will detail their progress made on the Sendai declaration which binds all signatory to bring down disaster related deaths and implement the roadmap agreed upon by 2030.
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As per the communique of UNISDR, " India is the largest democracy which has braced the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction and the first country to have drawn a national and local strategy with a short-term goal achievement target set for 2020."
The Sendai Framework was adopted by UN Member States on 18th March 2015 at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai city, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is a 15 year voluntary, non-binding agreement which recognizes that the State has primary role to reduce disaster risk.
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