General News of Saturday, 6 April 2019Source: ghananewsagency.orgNDPC reiterates Ghana's commitments towards implementing Sendai FrameworkThe two-day meeting, which was held on the theme "DRR in Ghana: The Future of our Cities"The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has reiterated Ghana's commitments towards implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Sendai Framework is a 15-year, voluntary, non-binding agreement, which recognises that the State has the primary role to reduce disaster risk but that responsibility should be shared with other stakeholders. Dr Grace Bediako, Director-General of NDPC said as a signatory to the Sendai Framework for DRR, Ghana was committed to effectively work towards disaster risk reduction and building resilience to disasters. She noted that there were 25 targets related to disaster risk reduction in 10 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), firmly establishing the role of disaster risk reduction as core development strategy. She said the first Sendai Framework Progress Report would be published in 2019, and Member States were expected to provide an update on the status of implementation.

Source: GhanaWeb April 06, 2019 17:37 UTC