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05/12/20 10:00 AM IST

Fourth South Asia Forum on SDGs

Context

South Asian nations are facing challenges of extreme weather events like floods, cyclone, heat waves, cold waves, landslides and drought as well as COVID-19 pandemic and its recovery.

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UNESCAP South Asia and Pacific virtually organised a special dialogue on disaster and climate resilience in South Asia

Objectives
  • To identify the opportunities and imperatives to overcome the challenges in implementing the systemic approach to disaster and public health risk management.
  • Other objectives were to formulate the strategies for capitalizing on existing regional and sub-regional cooperation mechanism.
  • It also included the South Asian Forum on SDG to scale up multi-hazard and multi-sectoral preparedness systems for future cascading disasters.
Highlights
  • India is hosting SAARC Disaster Management Centre, it works closely withUniversitiesof SAARC andBIMSTECmember States.
  • The prevailing COVID-19 situation is further increasing vulnerabilities of the region in an exponential manner.
  • Therefore, it is the duty of all of us in the region to not only reduce our own disaster risks but also to promote regional cooperation and mutual help, before, during and after disasters.
Source: PIB

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