The United Nations General Assembly has designated 13 October to celebrate the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR). Beginning in 1989, this promotes a global culture of disaster reduction, including prevention, mitigation and preparedness.

2018 continues as part of the "Sendai Seven" campaign which is centred on the seven targets of the Sendai Framework:

1. substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030;
2. substantially reduce the number of affected people globally by 2030;
3. reduce direct disaster economic loss in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030;
4. substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services, among them health and educational facilities;
5. substantially increase the number of countries with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020;
6. substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions by 2030; and
7. substantially increase the availability of, and access to, multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information and assessments by 2030.

2018 focuses on reduction of disaster economic losses in relation to global GDP by 2030.

CNVP is a leading international civil society organisation that is active in all six Balkan countries. It uses evidence-based analysis to improve the sustainable livelihoods of rural communities affected by the ongoing process of environmental and climate change.

CNVP’s six key areas of interest cover: sustainable forest management; climate change, environment, bio-diversity and balanced natural resource management; agri-rural development, including the development of agriculture, forestry and wood energy value chains; renewable energy and waste management; community mobilization and governance; and related European accession and policy issues. CNVP is also interested in disaster risk reduction (including illegal logging and sand/gravel extraction, soil erosion and excess flooding).