Focus on Disaster Risk Reduction
Manama : The Isa Cultural Centre (ICC), in cooperation with the United Nations Regional Office of World Meteorology Organisation (WMO) for West Asia, organised a symposium on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction, WMO Tropical Cyclone Programme’ yesterday at ICC premises.
World Meteorological Organisation representative Dr. Hesham Abdelghany, and the Head of the Tropical Cyclones Programme Division at the Organisation Dr. Taoyong Peng spoke on the occasion.
This event is the first outcome of an agreement between Isa Cultural Centre and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bahrain signed on 7th of May this year to raise awareness of the United Nations’ “Sustainable Development Goals”.
The presentation included introduction of WMO and its disaster risk reduction programme, as well as the WMO Tropical Cyclone Programme, presenting the mechanisms for developing the disaster risk reduction road map and the precautionary steps to reduce crises associated with natural disasters under the Global Multi-Hazard Warning System.
Dr. Abdelghany noted that most of the disasters in the Arab region were caused by drought, earthquakes. floods, and storms.
“More than 37 million Arab people were affected and more than 20 billion dollars were lost between 1980 and 2008 due to national disasters,” he said.
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