UNDP, ECOWAS to help Nigeria tackle disaster

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have pledged to help Nigeria in her effort to reduce disaster risk in the country.
The Country Director of UNDP, Dr. Pa Lamin Beyai, and ECOWAS Commission’s Principal Disaster Reduction Officer, Mohammed Ibrahim, made the pledge while speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day national sensitization workshop on the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction organised by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Abuja.
Beyai, who noted that the Hyogo framework – a ten-year plan (from 2005-2015) targeted at making the world safer from natural hazards – has achieved its objectives, stressed that the new framework is targeted at helping the communities mitigate inevitable disasters they face before, during and after they start.