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IRP collects news and organizes events to facilitate discussion on resilient recovery and building back better, including the annual International Recovery Forum.

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9th International training course on earthquake vulnerability reduction (EVRC-9)
The Earthquake Vulnerability Reduction Course (EVRC) has been designed to achieve the goal of supporting the creation of earthquake resilient society. With rich experiences in providing similar training courses on natural disaster risk reduction at
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Saint Bernard
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5th Commemoration of the 2006 Guinsaugon Landslide and DRRM forum
An annual activity commemorating the 2006 Guinsaugon landslide in Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte, Philippines. 17 February 2011 marks the 5th Commemoration of the 2006 Guinsaugon landslide which claimed the lives of more than 1,000 individuals. Consequent
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Davos
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Earthquake: Public and private roles for risk mitigation and response - Workspace event of the World Economic Forum annual meeting 2011
This Davos Workspace cross-industry WEF Partners Session with Financial Services and Engineering & Construction industries and Civil Society will explore what happens when an earthquake strikes an urban centre: A broad section of stakeholders is assembled
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Kobe
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International Recovery Forum 2011: Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning for Building Back Better
International Recovery Forum 2011: Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning for Building Back Better
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Dambulla
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International conference on building resilience: Interdisciplinary approaches to disaster risk reduction, and the development of sustainable communities and cities
With growing population and infrastructures, the world’s exposure to hazards – of natural and man-made origin – is inevitably increasing. This reality reinforces the need to proactively consider disaster risk as a part of the sustainable development
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Kottayam
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Disaster risk and vulnerability conference 2011
Background The conference aims to bring together specialists, practitioners, academics, students and the public to a common platform. Discussions on disaster management, risk and vulnerability reduction can lead to increased awareness of disasters and its
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Islamabad
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Regional high-level expert group meeting to reduce flood disaster risks in Pakistan
ESCAP, in partnership with the United Nations Country Team in Pakistan and the Government of Pakistan, will organize a ‘Regional high-level expert group meeting to reduce flood disaster risk in Pakistan’ in Islamabad, Pakistan, 9-10 November 2010. The
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Incheon
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4th Asian ministerial conference on disaster risk reduction side event: A tool for better recovery
Risks must be prevented in the recovery process to avoid repeating the disaster. In this context, essential capacities to integrate disaster risk reduction - climate change adaptation (DRR-CCA) in recovery must be developed before a disaster occurs. Some
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Recife
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Climate change and disasters in North East Brazil: Civil society and governmental response
This event will address the relationship between climate change and the increase of disasters in Brazil; aspects of disaster management to be discussed are: prevention, response, reconstruction. It will also develop proposals for the Civil Defence and
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Appropriate options for recovery and reconstruction – learning from South Asia
This meeting will look at how to contextualize regional knowledge to suit different contexts of rebuilding in Pakistan. With a long history of facing disasters, the region has a pool of successful models, which the organizers feel would be appropriate to
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International Recovery Forum

The International Recovery Forum, established in 2005, convenes a broad range of senior policymakers and practitioners to exchange experiences and facilitate discussion on challenges to resilient recovery and opportunities for building back better. It is a forum designed to generate ideas and collaboration through dialogue and debate, sharing of experiences and the latest evidence in disaster recovery. The forum is coordinated annually in Kobe, Japan, by the International Recovery Platform (IRP) Secretariat, in close consultation with the IRP Steering Committee.

The annual forum is organized around themes to address key prevailing priorities and gaps in knowledge and practice for recovery and building back better. The forum’s themes link with the outcomes and lessons emerging from previous IRP Forums and other relevant global events, in order to advance the field. The International Recovery Forum is among the key activities managed by IRP in support of its mandate to share experiences and learning among countries and all relevant stakeholders, explicitly designated in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

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