Decides that the Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction should be modified in order to provide for increased participation of regional organizations as well as to ensure the continued membership of the key UN agencies; calls upon Governments to establish national platforms or focal points for disaster reduction, and urges the UN system to provide appropriate support for these mechanisms; reiterates the need to continue international cooperation to reduce the impact of the El Niño phenomenon.

Adopted without vote, 43rd plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2001, New York, 29-31 Jan. 2001; resumed organizational session for 2001, New York, 8, 13 and 22 March, 3 May and 4 June 2001; substantive session of 2001, Geneva, 2-26 July 2001; resumed substantive session of 2001, New York, 10 and 24 Oct. and 20 Dec. 2001 - E/2001/99 - p. 55-57 - (ESCOR, 2001, Suppl. no. 1).