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Pacific needs more disaster management training

Pacific needs more disaster management training

Updated 20 September 2012, 12:17 AEST

More disaster management training throughout the Pacific Islands is one of the recommendations of a report launched this week.

In the last decade almost one million people have been killed by disasters and more than one trillion dollars have been lost worldwide

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Regional Office the the Pacific is responsible for the draft report.

Presenter: Geraldine Coutts

Speaker: Peter Muller Regional Disaster Response Adviser, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Regional Office the the Pacific

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