掲載日：2015/01/02
Happy New Year everyone!
Only two and a half months remaining until the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai.
JWNDRR will be holding a public forum at L-Park Sendai from 1.15 PM on March 18th. The title is: Women as a Force for Change ~Gender Equality and Disaster Risk Reduction.
At this forum we will be proposing inputs for the new Framework for Action for the next ten years, based on all our experiences and activities over the last four years.
We will also be focusing on ensuring that gender equality policies are not only included in the Framework for Action but that they can actually be translated into actions when a disaster occurs. In order for this to happen, it is important that women’s independence and disaster prevention capacity be improved, so we will also be discussing our training initiative which will empower women and diverse groups of people to take leadership roles.
I hope that we can further develop close partnerships from now until March, studying the relevant issues for this forum together. I’m looking forward to working with all of you to make this year productive and successful.
Akiko Domoto