HMES 2013 Delegations: Letter from National Disaster Coordinator Lamin Saidy

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Letter from National Disaster Coordinator Lamin Saidy

Lamin Saidy
To: (HME Summit Manila 2014) summit@hazmapping.org
Cc: saferecover@msn.com

Dear All,

I first of all wish you Happy New Year 2014.

My name is Lamin Saidy. I worked for the National Disaster Management of The Gambia as a Regional Disaster Coordinator responsible of coordinating all matters of disaster and climate related hazards.

I have read about Disaster and Hazards Mapping Summit 2014 to be held in Manila-Phillipines in 2014.

As a disaster manager from a developing country that is also prone to disaster and other related hazards, I hereby write to kindly forward my interest in the summit for consideration. I was in Phillipines, Indonesia and Banglasdesh on Study tour in 2013 and this has greatly help my country to learn best practices in these countries for incorporation into our country level programmes.

In light of the above, I wish to count on your usual support and consideration to my request so as to enable me to attend this important summit.

Lamin Saidy

National Disaster Management Agency
Regional Disaster Coordinator
Lower River Region

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Letter from United Nations

Dear HMES Organizers,

With reference to your email dated 22 November, please note that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, along with other agencies, funds, and programmes of the United Nations are supporting the people and government of the Philippines. The UN is helping communities and local governments recover from the disaster, build back safer and avoid relapses while strengthening resilience.

United Nations efforts are designed to support the Government of the Philippines response to the immediate humanitarian needs of the people affected by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), and complements the Government’s Yolanda Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan.

In this regards, the UN welcomes country-led efforts to improve hazard mapping and preparedness, and has been engaged in multi-year support in these areas. UN agencies in country and in the region are working with national geospatial and statistical agencies on improving GIS and risk mapping at the community level.

Your efforts to contribute to improve disaster preparedness are welcome. Committed citizens are needed to raise awareness and to join this effort. I therefore encourage you to engage in ongoing national and regional initiatives on disaster risk reduction.

Sincerely,

The Director

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

United Nations

Geneva

Distracting fight vs. Climate Change

After the 2005 Hyogo Conference, scientists urged the United Nations to consider that the various conflicting issues surrounding Climate Change is "distracting governments" from providing solutions to threats of disasters worldwide.

"The current UN focus on "fighting climate change," as illustrated in the Nov. 27 UN Development Programme's Human Development Report, is distracting governments from adapting to the threat of inevitable natural climate changes, whatever forms they may take. National and international planning for such changes is needed, with a focus on helping our most vulnerable citizens adapt to conditions that lie ahead. Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems."

A letter written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon ventilated sentiments of scientists and technology experts on the issue of focusing deeper into finding means to adapt to the threat of climate change.