UNDP Assistant Administrator Izumi Nakamitsu Explains What the Crisis Response Unit Does

Ramesh Jaura and Katsuhiro Asagiri — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:44:51 +0000

By Ramesh Jaura and Katsuhiro Asagiri
SENDAI, JAPAN, Mar 18 2015 (IPS)

IPS Editor in Chief Ramesh Jaura talked to UNDP Assistant Administrator Izumi Nakamitsu, Director of the Crisis Response Unit in Sendai, Japan, at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) on 17 March 2015, to learn what the Unit is tasked with, the challenges the U.N. Development Programme is facing and its role in disaster risk reduction. The conference concluded 18 March 2015 declaring the participants’ determination “to enhance efforts to strengthen disaster risk reduction to reduce disaster losses of lives and assets worldwide”.

Inter Press ServiceUNDP Assistant Administrator Izumi Nakamitsu Explains What the Crisis Response Unit Does

UNDP Assistant Administrator Izumi Nakamitsu Explains What the Crisis Response Unit Does