Remarks by MoS (Home) Shri Kiren Rijiju, during Closing Ceremony of AMCDRR 2016

Remarks by MoS (Home) Shri Kiren Rijiju, during Closing Ceremony of AMCDRR 2016 Following is the text of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijijus remarks during the Closing Ceremony of Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) 2016, here today: After three days of extensive deliberations, we have come to an end of this eventful Conference. This is truly an international event, where delegates of 51 countries and 9 UN agencies and numerous International Organisations were present. Besides, representative of civil society, private sector and Local Self Governments, Disaster Management Authorities, and State Governments from India have also participated in the Conference. More than 4000 participants attended the inaugural session. We started the Conference with an inspirational speech from the Honble Prime Minister of India. He introduced a 10 point agenda for renewing the effort of disaster risk reduction. The 10 point agenda focuses on imbibing the principle of disaster risk management in all developmental sector, work towards risk coverage for all starting from poor households to small and medium enterprises to multinational companies, greater involvement and leadership of women in disaster risk management, investment in risk mapping, leveraging technology to enhance efficiency of our disaster risk management efforts, developing a network of universities to work on disaster issues, utilising the opportunities provided by social media and mobile technologies, building on local capacity & initiative, learning from a disaster and greater cohesion among international agencies in response to disasters. In the three Ministerial Sessions each participating country outlined their line of action for fulfilling the objective of disaster risk reduction under the Sendai Framework. We have seen that all the countries are committed towards implementing the objective of Sendai Framework. The deliberations during three Featured Events have provided insightful and practical suggestions on preventing new risks from being created in the Asia-Pacific region. The first featured event on Risk Resilient Infrastructure for Sustainable Development" has emphasized the need for strengthening and developing standards & norms for new infrastructure, need for capacity building for enforcing standards, risk assessment of new infrastructure being created, use of latest scientific and technological knowledge for reducing risk and evolving a mechanism for continuing collaborative efforts in future to come. The second featured event of Application of science and technology for prevention of new risks" has outlined the need for applying new scientific and technological tools and knowledge for disaster risk reduction. The third featured event on Strengthening regional cooperation for implementation of the Sendai Framework in Asia" has deliberated on how regional cooperation has made a difference in advancing DRR agenda in Asia. We also have 22 Thematic events during the Conference, where stakeholders from Governments, civil society and private stakeholders have dwelt on issues such as Gender sensitive DRR, Child-centred DRR etc., at length. Recently, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution to designate November 5 as World Tsunami Awareness Day every year. The purpose of tsunami day is to raise awareness among people in the world of the dangers of tsunami and stressing the importance of early warning systems in order to mitigate damage. I am glad that we have observed the first Tsunami Awareness day during this Conference. This Conference has provided a regional platform to all stakeholders to share their ideas for making the whole region disaster resilient. Involvement of all stakeholders is very much required for fulfilling the goal and objective of the Sendai Framework. I am glad that all the stakeholders have been part of this conference and made the stakeholders statement. The next AMCDRR Conference will be hosted by the Republic of Mongolia. I wish them all the success. With these words, I thank you all for participating in the Conference and making it a great success. I hope that deliberations in the Conference would be useful in managing the risk from natural disaster in better way. I hope your stay in Delhi was pleasant and you will return again to this historic city.

Remarks by MoS (Home) Shri Kiren Rijiju, during Closing Ceremony of AMCDRR 2016

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