Office for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute

The first quarter of 2017 saw numerous events, including: The first multi-sectoral workshop for understanding the Sendai Framework was implemented in the Maldives. The first six Russian Federation communities received training based on the Sendai Framework and joined the Making Cities Resilient campagin. City officials of Mashhad and Shiraz, Iran, got trained on urban risk reduction and resilience. Local authorities and civil society representatives from Suyeong District in Busan, Republic of Korea, learned about the Sendai Framework and activities conducted by UNISDR ONEA-GETI and MPSS. To enhance education of world practitioners in disaster risk management, UNISDR ONEA-GETI and UNITAR opened the online course on new round of the Resilience Action Planning. The first Sogang University Model (SGMUN) UN delegates, observers and secretariat had mock negotiations.

Over 2,500 were reached in 50 UNISDR ONEA-GETI workshops and events during 2016 in the Republic of Korea and globally in support of national and local Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction implementation, including the development of plans and strategies. 22 events for school programme reached Korean school principals, teachers and children as a contribution to the Worldwide Initiative on Safe Schools. Highlights of last quarter of 2016 include: training of trainers to DRR professionals from across the Americas; a joint Singapore-GETI event for 18 developing countries and SIDS; Local DRR plan and strategy training for officials in Mongolia, Philippines and the Republic of Korea - plus the sign-up of 3 Mongolian and 7 Korean cities to the global Making Cities Resilient campaign; The Pacific private sector got active in Munda, Solomon; State-of-the-art tech for DRR was the topic at smart and resilient city events; and the Korean National University of Education has committed to teacher training on DRR.