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SRSG appeals for more DRR financing
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Author: Denis McClean
2021 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development
REMARKS BY MAMI MIZUTORI, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, FINANCING FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION & RISK-INFORMED APPROACHES TO INVESTING ACROSS THE SDGs
I would like to thank our co-hosts, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and the Co-Chairs of the Group of Friends for Disaster Risk Reduction – the Permanent Missions of Australia, Indonesia, Norway, and Peru.
Our analysis of disaster data tells us that low and middle income countries suffer the most from a lack of capacity both to protect the lives and livelihoods of their own people, and to invest in the disaster resilience of the infrastructure on which daily life depends.