VIENNA, 8 April 2016 – More than 60 representatives of Aarhus Centres, local authorities, state agencies for emergency situations, NGOs and international and regional organizations concluded in Vienna today a two-year project on community-based disaster risk reduction.
Disaster risk reduction is a systematic approach including measures for prediction, prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery of disasters at all levels.
In the framework of the project, the capacities of Aarhus Centres and their local partners were assessed and then strengthened through training workshops in seven project countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Serbia and Tajikistan. The project then supported twelve selected …read more
Source: OSCE