critical to Africassustainable development and welcome the efforts by developmentpartners to strengthen cooperation with the New Partnership forAfricas Development (NEPAD). We also welcome the progress made byAfrican countries in deepening democracy, human rights, goodgovernance and sound economic management, and encourage Africancountries to continue their efforts in this regard. We invite all ofAfricas development partners, in particular developed countries,to support African countries in strengthening human capacities anddemocratic institutions, consistent with their priorities andobjectives with a view to furthering Africas development at alllevels, including through facilitating the transfer of technologyneeded by African countries as mutually agreed. We recognize the needfor African countries to make continued efforts to create enablingenvironments for inclusive growth in support of sustainabledevelopment and for the international community to make continuedefforts to increase the flow of new and additional resources forfinancing for development from all sources, public and private,domestic and foreign, to support these development efforts by Africancountries and welcome the various important initiatives establishedbetween African countries and their development partners in thisregard.Regionalefforts185.We encourage coordinated regional actions to promote sustainabledevelopment. We recognize, in this regard, that important steps havebeen taken to promote sustainable development, in particular in theArab region, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Asia Pacificregion, through relevant fora including within United Nationsregional commissions. While noting that challenges remain in severalareas, the international community welcomes these efforts, and theresults already achieved, and calls for actions at all levels fortheir further development and implementation.Disasterrisk reduction186.We reaffirm our commitment to the Hyogo Framework for Action2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities toDisasters and call for States, the UN system, international financialinstitutions, subregional, regional and international organizations,and civil society to accelerate implementation of the framework andthe achievement of its goals. We call for disaster risk reduction andbuilding of resilience to disasters to be addressed with a renewedsense of urgency in the context of sustainable development andpoverty eradication, and, as appropriate, to be integrated intopolicies, plans, programmes, and budgets at all levels and consideredwithin relevant future frameworks. We invite governments at alllevels as well as relevant subregional, regional and internationalorganizations to commit to adequate, timely and predictable resourcesfor disaster risk reduction in order to enhance resilience of citiesand communities to disasters, according to their own circumstancesand capacities.187.We recognize the importance of early warning systems as part ofeffective disaster risk reduction at all levels in order to reduceeconomic and social damages including the loss of human life, and inthis regard encourage States to integrate such systems into theirnational disaster risk reduction strategies and plans. We encouragedonors and the international community to enhance internationalcooperation in support of disaster risk reduction in developingcountries as appropriate through technical assistance, technologytransfer as mutually agreed, capacity building and trainingprogrammes. We further recognize the importance of comprehensivehazard and risk assessments, and knowledge and information sharing,including reliable geospatial information. We commit to undertake andstrengthen in a timely manner risk assessment and disaster riskreduction instruments.188.We stress the importance of stronger inter-linkages among disasterrisk reduction, recovery and long-term development planning, and callfor more coordinated and comprehensive strategies that integratedisaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation considerationsinto public and private investment, decision making