FOCUS Receives UN Disaster Reduction Award

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Focus Humanitarian Assistance, Pakistan Nominated by: Mohammad Zafar Iqbal, Assistant Resident Representative, UNDP, Pakistan

Focus Humanitarian Assistance (Pakistan) was selected by the Jury of the 2009 UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction to receive a Certificate of Merit for enhancing disaster risk reduction. Chairman Amyn Dossa, together with the Executive Officer Ghulam Panjwani, received the award at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2nd forum, on behalf of Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) from Sir John Holmes, the Under Secretary for humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

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