Disaster risk reduction gained its full momentum when the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) for 2005–2015, first proposed and adopted at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) in 2005, was subsequently endorsed by the UN General Assembly (A/RES/60/195). On 18 March 2015, UNISDR announced the adaption of New International Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at the occasion of the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction at Sendai.