The Conference achieved its main goals, to get the participants exchange on the implementation of an effective strategy for disaster risk reduction towards resilient cities, in the framework of the Sendai 2015-30 Strategy.
EUR-OPA’s programme of activities on vulnerable groups was presented. An exchange took place on how to achieve resilient societies in an inclusive way, promoting the EUR-OPA Recommendation 2016 - on the Inclusion of Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in disaster preparedness and response, adopted at the Ministerial Meeting in October 2016 in Lisbon. The role of the Council of Europe to conduct inclusive policies, to promote cultural living together and to view migrants as a resource, as well as the bottom up approach of civil society to develop policies as an answer to risk situations were welcomed.