United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on Thursday conferred Sasakawa Award-2019 for Disaster Risk Reduction to Additional Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra.
The award was announced at the Award Ceremony during the 6th Session of Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) 2019 at Geneva.
Dr Mishra received the award in recognition of his long-term dedication to improve the resilience of communities most exposed to disasters and his personal commitment to social inclusion as a critical principle to reduce inequality and poverty, enhancing the safety net of the socially and economically marginalised.
The United Nations Sasakawa Award is the most prestigious international award in the area of Disaster Risk Management and was instituted more than 30 years ago and jointly organised by the UNDRR and the Nippon Foundation.
A total grant of US dollars 50,000 is distributed among the winners which can be either organisations or individuals.
The theme of the 2019 Sasakawa award was “Building Inclusive and Resilient Societies”.UNDRR received more than 61 nominations from 31 countries for the 2019 award.
The Indian delegation attended Ministerial Roundtable discussions on ‘Risk Informed Investments and Economics of DRR’ and had a bilateral meeting with European Union on cooperation in India’s initiative on disaster resilient infrastructure.
