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International Day for Disaster Reduction-October 13
October 14 , 2017
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- The International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) is observed every year on October 13 since 1989, to promote a global culture of risk-awareness and disaster reduction.
- The theme of IDDR 2017 is “Home Safe Home: Reducing Exposure, Reducing Displacement”.
- The 2017 campaign seeks to raise global awareness about effective actions, policies and practices taken to reduce exposure to disaster risk at the community level.
- The "Sendai Seven" campaign which centred on the seven targets of the Sendai Framework was launched last year.
- The first of the seven targets is reducing disaster mortality.
- United Nation Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) acts as the designated agency for the coordination of disaster reduction strategies.
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