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07-20-2010, 03:20 PM
The United Nations has released the findings of its disaster risk reduction assessment for the DR. It recommends that the country strengthen its building codes to mitigate the impact of hurricanes and other hazards.
The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and its partners examined the country's efforts in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action, a 10-year plan aimed at making the world safer from natural disasters.
The report also recommended incorporating "vulnerability reduction" targets in projects funded by both the public and private sector, and tightening standards for designing public infrastructure, including procedures used in determining where structures are physically located.
It also advised the government to review - and where needed, develop - by-laws and regulations for construction, whether national or local, to include considerations of risk. Public and private investment projects should also incorporate aspects of vulnerability reduction, it added.
In addition, the report recommended that the Dominican Republic - which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti - adopt an "island-wide approach" to disaster assessment, and consider joint intervention for disaster mitigation.
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The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and its partners examined the country's efforts in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action, a 10-year plan aimed at making the world safer from natural disasters.
The report also recommended incorporating "vulnerability reduction" targets in projects funded by both the public and private sector, and tightening standards for designing public infrastructure, including procedures used in determining where structures are physically located.
It also advised the government to review - and where needed, develop - by-laws and regulations for construction, whether national or local, to include considerations of risk. Public and private investment projects should also incorporate aspects of vulnerability reduction, it added.
In addition, the report recommended that the Dominican Republic - which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti - adopt an "island-wide approach" to disaster assessment, and consider joint intervention for disaster mitigation.
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35354&Cr=disaster+risk&Cr1= (http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35354&Cr=disaster+risk&Cr1=)
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