Governance structures for internal displacement 2015, para. 48

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Paragraph text: Disaster risk reduction is defined as "the conceptual framework of elements considered with the possibilities to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks throughout a society, to avoid (prevention) or to limit (mitigation and preparedness) the adverse impacts of hazards, within the broad context of sustainable development". It has a direct link with prevention of internal displacement due to both sudden and slow-onset disasters. As underlined in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Sendai, Japan, in March 2015 and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 69/283, "each State has the primary responsibility to prevent and reduce disaster risk" and "disaster risk reduction requires that responsibilities be shared by central Governments and relevant national authorities, sectors and stakeholders, as appropriate to their national circumstances and systems of governance". At the national and local levels, States should "promote regular disaster preparedness, response and recovery exercises … with a view to ensuring rapid and effective response to disasters and related displacement ...."

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Reference: SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/334, para. 48.