The Yokohama Review currently is proceeding as an analytical process that reflects the current state of awareness and accomplishments, limitations and constraints, and expresses major conclusions in global disaster risk reduction from 1994 to the present. The Review proceeds from the adoption of the Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in Yokohama, Japan in May 1994, and later endorsed by the 49th session of the UN General Assembly in December 1994.