There is a growing push to include resilience to disaster risk in the post 2015 development agenda discussion.
The most frequently used reasons used at the UN Global Platform meeting underway in Geneva are huge costs to infrastructure and government and its impact on the poor and the most vulnerable groups in society.
Vulnerable groups, according to United Nations definition in terms of disaster risk represents women, children and people living with disability.
Speaking to journalists, the UN Deputy Secretary General, Jan Elliason said investing in disaster risk is not the sole responsibility of the central government but all stakeholders in the community.
“All stakeholders, which includes government, civil society and the business community should work together to build resilient infrastructure and communities to prevent natural disasters.
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