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3rd Virtual African Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction
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The third virtual meeting of the Africa Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction (AWGDRR), organized jointly by the African Union Commission (AUC) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), was held from 25-26 March 2021, under the theme “Accelerating progress towards addressing priorities identified by Member States (MS) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) to effectively prepare, respond and recover from COVID-19 and other hazards”.
The meeting was attended by over 80 and 60 participants on the first and second day respectively. The participants were drawn from Member States (MS), Regional Economic Communities (RECs), African Development Bank, African Risk Capacity, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and other United Natio