Interpretation services for the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) will require interpretation services for the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR). The WCDRR will be held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Several thousand participants are expected, including at related events linked to the World Conference under the umbrella of building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.

The United Nations General Assembly Resolution for 2013 on International Strategy for Disaster Reduction states that the World Conference will result in a concise, focused, forward-looking, and action-oriented outcome document and will have the following objectives:

• To complete assessment and review of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
• To consider the experience gained through the regional and national strategies/institutions and plans for disaster risk reduction and their recommendations as well as relevant regional agreements within the implementation of the Hyogo Framework of Action;
• To adopt a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction;
• To identify modalities of cooperation based on commitments to implement a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction;
• To determine modalities to periodically review the implementation of a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction.
• More details for the conference can be found at http://www.wcdrr.org/home

The company will be responsible for the following:

• Interpretation services up to five separate meetings per room per day, usually a duration of one and a half hours.
• During sessions, interpretation services will be required for the following languages English as the base language, French, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese.
• Travel and accommodation arrangements for the interpretation team, if relevant.