Linking early warning to early action in the Sahel

IRIN

'It's all about managing risk and trying to justify why you need to do certain things in advance, why you have to sometimes take that risk, why it sometimes might not be as bad as you thought it would, but ultimately you have to put that money in,'said Sarah Lumsdon, Oxfam's interim regional humanitarian coordinator for West Africa...

• US mayors aim for resilience to weather, energy challenges

  AlertNet

  U.S. mayors pledged Monday to make their communities more resilient to increasingly severe floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires, which they said was more efficient and cost-effective than disaster clean-up afterwards...

• Southern Africa isaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Technical Centre is launched

  UN-HABITAT

  The establishment of this Centre is the result of a thorough participatory process facilitated by UN-Habitat, with UNISDR chairing the steering group, which started in April 2010 in Nairobi at the request of the four countries. It included the preparation of a feasibility study and several sub-regional consultations...