Hyogo Framework for Action 2005– 2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters

The World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held from 18 to 22 January 2005
in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and adopted the present Framework for Action 2005-2015:
Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (here after referred to as
the “Framework for Action”). The Conference provided a unique opportunity to promote a
strategic and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities1 and risks to hazards.2 It
underscored the need for, and identified ways of, building the resilience of nations and
communities to disasters.3