UN FORUM HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

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UN FORUM HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS IN ASIA-PACIFIC
REGIONNew York, May 1 2013 11:00AMPreparation, especially by
investing in preparedness strategies, is essential to prevent and
manage multiple shocks such as natural disasters and economic crises,
experts gathered at a United Nations forum in Bangkok told
participants today.

"First and foremost, Governments must invest in prevention and
preparedness – it is far more effective and less costly than recovery
efforts," said the Executive Secretary of Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Noeleen Heyzer, at the
Commission's Ministerial Roundtable on Building Resilience to Natural
Disasters and Major Economic Crises.

"This can be as straightforward as updating building codes and
retrofitting unsafe buildings, or as far-reaching as coordinating
regional monetary policies."

Regarding economic crises, Ms. Heyzer stressed that policymakers must
balance short-term stability with long-term development. "In the midst
of a crisis or disaster, we can ill-afford to mechanically apply the
conventional norms of macroeconomic stabilization. We need an
Asia-Pacific regional framework for resilience."

The roundtable was guided by a new ESCAP study which found that
multiple shocks are occurring with increased frequency and are
converging in new ways.

During the discussion, crisis management experts from the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia, Pakistan and the
Philippines agreed that countries' resilience to natural disasters and
economic crises is based on preparation, and noted the important role
of regional cooperation in building this resilience.

The Asia-Pacific region has had extensive experience dealing with
natural disasters. Pakistan suffered a devastating earthquake in 2005,
as well as floods in 2010, local governments in the Philippines
prepare and plan for cyclones every year, and countries in the region
have developed warning systems to prepare for tsunamis, following the
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which killed hundreds of thousands of
people.

At the forum, Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson issued an urgent
call to protect the poor and vulnerable during natural disasters and
economic crises. "The poorest are the most vulnerable during
disasters, and we see that all over the world. We must build back
better so we are better prepared for the next time.

"We definitely need to make disaster risk reduction part of the
development paradigm and the post 2015 development agenda and reach
out to the private sector, civil society, academia and the scientific
world," he added.May 1 2013 11:00AM
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