The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction started a process of consultations as the disaster risk reduction community heads toward the end date of the current blueprint for global disaster risk reduction, the Hyogo Framework of Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters.

WCC-3 outcomes also intended to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and broader UN climate goals, including the Hyogo Framework for Action on Disaster Risk Reduction.

A research study titled “ Community-Based Disaster Preparedness, Vulnerability Studies and Enhancement of Sustainable Livelihood for the inhabitants of Pazhaverkadu ( Pulicat )” by Loyola College, Chennai and the Pazhaverkadu Action Network ( PAN ), in partnership with Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development Aid CORDAID-The Netherlands, reported in 2007 that:

* ITU-T Action Plan for Standardization on Telecommunications for Disaster Relief and Early Warning ( TDR / EW ), 2005

Other areas of work for UNISDR includes issuing the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction every two years, supporting countries in monitoring risk trends and the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, and leading global campaigns on disaster risk reduction for safer schools, safer hospitals and safer cities.

Created in 2008, the functions of this post includes leading and overseeing UNISDR in the executions of its functions entrusted by the General Assembly ( GA ), Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC ) and the Hyogo Framework for Action ( HFA ), as well as policy directions by the Secretary-General, overseeing the management of the Trust Fund for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and carrying out high-level advocacy and resource mobilization activities for risk reduction and implementation of the HFA.

FEMA's emergency response is based on small, decentralized teams trained in such areas as the National Disaster Medical System ( NDMS ), Urban Search and Rescue ( USAR ), Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team ( DMORT ), Disaster Medical Assistance Team ( DMAT ), and Mobile Emergency Resource Support ( MERS ).

Fillmore is also served by three Sheriff's Store Front Locations, a Juvenile Liaison Program with the School District, Citizens Patrol Disaster Response Team, Fillmore Mountain Search and Rescue Team and Citizens Patrol.

* Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team, a Singapore Civil Defence Force team

* Disaster Assistance Response Team, a Canadian Forces team

The next morning, before full control had been gained, satellite photographs, especially infrared ( heat-sensing ) photographs, were provided with the help of NASA Ames Research Center's Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team ( DART ) to aid firefighters in plotting the extent of the fire and spotting hidden hot spots.

The Disaster Assistance Response Team ( DART ) was placed on stand-by at 8 Wing Trenton, Ontario.

* Disaster preparedness – CDCC, BDCC, Sorsogon Emergency Rescue Team

Dr. Deskin was a member of the Health Disaster Team of the American Red Cross and played an active role in " Project Rebound " in Los Angeles after the January 17, 1994 California earthquake.

The Disaster Assistance Response Team ( DART ) ( French: Équipe d ' intervention en cas de catastrophe ( EICC )) is a rapidly deployable team of 200 Canadian Forces personnel.

* Disaster Assistance Response Team, a team of disaster experts deployed by the U. S. Agency for International Development.

* Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team, an elite team within the Singapore Civil Defence Force

* Backgrounder: Canadian Forces Disaster Assistance Response Team.

On January 6, 2005, 150 members of the Canadian Disaster Assistance Response Team ( DART ), a Canadian Forces group, arrived in Sri Lanka.

# REDIRECT Disaster Assistance Response Team

# REDIRECT Disaster Assistance Response Team

It also provides complex interactive disaster scenarios for state and federal urban search and rescue teams, U. S. military CERFP and WMD-Civil Support Team teams, Department of Health and Human Services Disaster Medical Assistance Team ( DMAT ) and NVRT teams, and other specialized international search and rescue teams.

* 2005: 2raumwohnung, Amplifier, ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Athlete, Audioslave, Beatsteaks, Beck, Boysetsfire, Brendan Benson, Broken Social Scene, Die Ärzte, Dinosaur Jr., Dioramic, The Dresden Dolls, Eagles of Death Metal, Fantômas, Feist, Flogging Molly, Idlewild, Ken, Kettcar, La Vela Puerca, Long Jones, Madrugada, Madsen, Mando Diao, Millencolin, Moneybrother, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Phoenix, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Sarah Bettens, Ska-P, Slut, System of a Down, Team Sleep, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Robocop Kraus, The Stands, Turbonegro, Underoath, Wir sind Helden

In 1893 the Combs Pit Mining Disaster killed 139 local coal miners.

TWW did not produce many programmes for the ITV network, but its news and local programming was well regarded ( it won many plaudits for its sensitive coverage of the Aberfan Disaster ).

Disaster relief efforts of Jehovah's Witnesses are typically channeled through permanent local Disaster Relief Committees under the various branch offices, and are staged at Kingdom Halls and Assembly Halls as close as practical to the disaster area.

Potential donors of relief goods were not required to secure clearance from the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council, but were able to directly coordinate with support groups at the local government level.

Disaster struck the town in 1824, when first its only local bank ( known as Holgate's ) collapsed, forcing the closure of some of the largest mills.

Many local families were affected by the tragic loss of eight men and one boy in the ' Seaham Lifeboat Disaster ', when the RNLI lifeboat, the George Elmy, sank on 17 November 1962.

A humorous story, related by D. A. Thomas, was that local newspaper placards carrying news of the sinking read " Great National Disaster.

In 1992 when asked during parliamentary discussions of the Armley Asbestos Disaster in Armley for financial assistance in surveying local housing in the Armley area for residual asbestos, the then Minister for Housing and Planning, Sir George Young, responded that the government would not provide financial assistance to the home owners or the council to pay for decontamination, as this " would not be a justifiable use of public funds.

In 1989 a local singer songwriter called Peter, Lee Hammond who was an ex-miner at Easington Pit was asked by the carnival committee to write a song to commemorate the history of Easington, so he wrote and sung a song about the community life & the Pit Disaster of 1951.

The agency also utilize about 2, 900 more seismographs owned by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention ( NIED ) and local governments.

Disaster responses to Hurricane Katrina included new " Federal Medical Stations " ( FMS ) -- austere, rapidly deployed, minimal care medical kits capable of housing, triaging and holding displaced patients for whom local acute care systems are incapacitated.

Barrick is party to a lawsuit originally filed against Placer Dome Inc. by the local government claiming compensation for the 1996 Marcopper Mining Disaster.

Disaster struck Stowmarket on 11 August 1871, when an explosion at a local gun cotton factory claimed twenty-eight lives, the site is now home to a large paint factory.

LWR works with local communities to combat the effects of climate-related disasters through Disaster Risk Reduction, and climate mitigation techniques like reforestation.

In 1989 a local singer songwriter called Peter, Lee Hammond who was an ex-miner at Easington Pit was asked by the carnival committee to write a song to commemorate the history of Easington, so he wrote and sung a song about the community life & the Pit Disaster of 1951.

The pier and harbour of ClegganIn 1927, in what became known as the Cleggan Disaster, 25 fishermen from the local area drowned during a great gale which arose without warning while they were mackerel fishing in the bay.

It was recorded by local Marie Feeney in her book “ The Cleggan Bay Disaster ”, by TG4 Documentary " The Cleggan Disaster " / " An Bádhadh Mór " directed by Petra Conroy, and remembered in Richard Murphy's poem " The Cleggan Disaster ", from his 1963 book " Sailing to an Island ".

Tearfund engages both in direct operational work ( via its Disaster Management Unit ), and in development work partnering with local Christian groups. By 2006 Tearfund was working with 297 partners, many of them church-based groups, in a total of 565 projects.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo visited Calapan City on December 7, 2005 to personally assess the situation and presided over the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council ( PDCC ) emergency meeting with concerned local government officials in Oriental Mindoro and turned over 200 sacks of rice to PDCC Oriental Mindoro and City Dbh n rt jyt uk isaster Coordinating Council ( CDCC ) Calapan City.

The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( Stafford Act ) is a United States federal law designed to bring an orderly and systemic means of federal natural disaster assistance for state and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to aid citizens.

If, during an emergency, a local government has lost such a substantial amount of revenues that they cannot perform essential government responsibilities, the President is authorized to provide Community Disaster Loans.