Community based disaster risk reduction regional consultative meeting, West Asia, Middle East and North Africa region

Summary and proceeding report

This report gives a summary of the meeting, as well as recommendations to integrate disaster management and risk reduction as a part of the development agenda, through disaster risk reduction training and capacity building, and comprehensive disaster risk reduction planning processes and frameworks at the national and local level.

Based on the commonalities, the 32 participants singled out the following areas for further concern and action: community-based disaster risk reduction, climate change, risk assessment, gender, partnership and good practices exchanges.