International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
Date: 2nd Week of October
As every year since the early nineties, the United Nations is organizing
a World Disaster Reduction Campaign, which culminates on International Disaster
Reduction Day, the second Wednesday of October, 9 October this year. The
main aim of each World Disaster Reduction Campaign is to increase public
awareness, worldwide and across all professional sectors, about the measures
that can be taken to reduce risk and vulnerabilities of societies and communities
to the negative impacts of natural hazards. The campaigns are based on a
different theme every year.The World Disaster Reduction Campaigns are organized
by the Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction,
located in Geneva, Switzerland.
For more information please visit www.unisdr.org
