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Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Meetings

As part of the evaluation of the OFDA/CRED initiative related to EM-DAT - Emergency Event Database - Technical Advisory Meetings have been implemented and are held once a year.

The objective of the TAG meetings is to discuss and share with the TAG members different aspects related to the EM-DAT initiative and development. Those meetings produce a series of extremely useful recommendations for the continuous improvement of EM-DAT database and its related proposed services.

Other Meetings

The EM-DAT team regularly organizes conferences, workshops and expert consultations on themes related to disaster occurrence and impacts and on the methods and tools to compile reliable disaster data for evidence-based decision making. These conferences and workshops are often organized in collaboration with other organizations and bring together a multi-disciplinary group of participants from NGO's, United Nations and governmental agencies, and academia.

Press Conference

At the start of each year, CRED and UNISDR organize a press conference to unveil the official figures of the number of natural disasters and their human impacts for the previous year. During these press conferences, the EM-DAT team presents the year's occurrence and impact figures across countries and disasters types and provide comparisons to the averages of the previous years or decade.