The side event held during the UN General Assembly's Second Committee session, titled 'A crisis mitigation and resilience building mechanism for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS,' will discuss ways to enhance disaster mitigation and resilience building for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including through a discussion on the possibilities of establishing a fund. The proceedings of the event will contribute to the consideration of the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for LDCs (IPoA), the Vienna Programme of Action for LLDCs (VPoA), and the SAMOA Pathway for SIDS, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and will feed into the Mid-term Review of the implementation of the IPoA. The discussion will consist of panel presentations by government representatives from LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS, development partners, civil society and the private sector, to be followed by an interactive dialogue among all meeting participants. The meeting will conclude with an informal summary by the Secretariat highlighting the main points of the discussions and specific proposals or ideas leading to action-oriented results.  

date: 30 October 2015  
venue: UN Headquarters, Conference Room 2  
location: New York City, US  
additional: 10 am  
contact: Louise Stoddard  
phone: +1 212 963 5370  
e-mail: stoddard@un.org  
www: http://www.un.org/en/ga/second/70/sideevents.shtml
 http://www.un.org/en/ga/second/70/se30octnote.pdf