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Serbia : launch of the national disaster risk management program
Launch: Serbia National Disaster Risk Management Program
March 4, 2015Belgrade, Serbia

The Disaster Risk Management Program for Serbia will support implementing proactive strategies to protect Serbia¡¯s development by reducing the existing risk, avoiding new risk, and responding more efficiently to disasters, such as the devastating floods in May 2014.

The National Disaster Risk Management Program for Serbia was officially launched on March 4, 2015 by the at Palata Srbije. This new program builds on the momentum and partnership created between the , the , the World Bank, and the during the response to the devastating floods in May 2014, and intends to implement more proactive resilience strategies to protect Serbia¡¯s development paths by reducing the existing risk, avoiding the creation of new risk, and responding more efficiently to disasters.

The EU, the UN, and the World Bank collaborated to support the Government of Serbia to respond to the floods in May 2014, which affected more than 1.6 million people and over 4 percent of its GDP according to the joint post-disaster needs assessment. The donor community also came together to provide urgent assistance for Serbia¡¯s recovery.

According to Ellen Goldstein, Country Director for Southeast Europe, ¡°The establishment of the National Disaster Risk Management Program is an important step forward for Serbia to shift from a reactive approach to addressing emergencies, toward a more proactive and forward-looking approach to managing disasters before they happen.¡±

It creates a common platform for managing risks associated with various types of disasters by identifying potential hazard risks and reducing them in the long term. The Program also provides an open platform to enable various sectoral actors and donors to coordinate and avoid replication of similar activities. The Program is currently funded by the EU, the UN, , , , the , and the World Bank.

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10.15 ¨C 10.30      Registration of participants

10.30-11.30         Speakers:

Aleksandar Vu?i?, Prime Minister¨C opening remarks

Irena Vojackova-Sollorano, UN Resident Coordinator

Ellen Goldstein, World Bank Country Director for Southeast Europe

Michael Davenport, Head of EU Delegation to Serbia

Jean-Daniel Ruch, Ambasador of Switzerland

National DRM Program presentation:

Marko Blagojevi?, Director of the Flood Afected Areas Assistance and Rehabilitation Office

11.30 ¨C 12.00      Discussion 

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    Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic
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    Ellen Goldstein, World Bank Country Director for Southeast Europe
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    Michael Davenport, Head of EU Delegation to Serbia (left)
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    The panel discussion chaired by Marko Blagojevic, Director of the Office for Assistance and Rehabilitation of the Flood Afected Areas
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    Participants of the event