Disaster Risk Reduction Resource Manual

This Manual of the Department of Education is based on the Hyogo Framework for Action, a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards. This was formulated during the World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, January 2005.

The Hyogo Framework is a global blueprint for disaster risk reduction efforts during the next decade. Its goal is to substantially reduce by 2015 disaster losses in lives, and in the social, economic, and environmental assets of communities and countries. It also offers guiding principles, priorities for action, and practical means for achieving disaster resilience for vulnerable communities.