Events

Resilience in Rural Futures: Mountains, Drylands and Small Islands

From: 14.03.2015 to: 18.03.2015

The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (14-18 March 2015) will feature a session on mountains, drylands and small islands. Traditionally, rural communities are faced with challenges such as illiteracy and poverty. In addition to these, now they also have to tackle problems associated with climate change, which is increasing the risk of disaster. It is for this reason that on 15 March 2015 from 10.00 to 11.30 hours the working session, “Resilience in Rural Futures: Mountains, Drylands and Small Islands,” will be held in the Hagi Hall.

This session will explore opportunities for accelerating actions in promoting rural resilience. It aims to examine:

• approaches to supporting rural development taking into account disaster risk management;

• on-going resilience-building initiatives and strategies to replicate and build political commitment to support rural resilience in local/national policies and planning; and

• measures to increase partnership/collaboration with rural development stakeholders in mountain and other rural areas, including local, regional, national government stakeholders, agricultural and other sectors, institutions and urban entities.

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