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A report on SEEDS Asia's ‘Reaching the Unreachable: Disaster Risk Reduction Education Project', that teaches life saving techniques to people living in cyclone, earthquake and flood affected areas - and transfers local knowledge. Local participants of the workshop learned about safe building structures and climate change...

'The disaster risk reduction strategy for urbanisation has to be proactive and holistic, as it has been emphasised by the Hyogo Framework for Action,' writes Mizanur Rahman, Programme Officer in the Islamic Relief Worldwide...

'It just shows that the awareness programs carried out on the safety measures during times of natural disasters like an earthquake are working,' said Fiji Police Force spokesman Inspector Atunaisa Sokomuri...

Top UN disaster risk reduction official, Margareta Wahlström arrives in Manila Philippines tomorrow for five-day visit during which she will meet with donors, the private sector, mayors and government officials to further push for more concrete disaster reduction actions to protect more communities and assets from future disasters.

'Our climate is changing and that is causing all of us – governments, communities, and businesses – to change the way we make decisions. We can no longer look to the past as a good guide for the future,' said NRT’s Vice Chair Robert Slater...

'Nigeria is ready and willing to provide the necessary technical support to the NDMA and its stakeholders to undertake courses in the six centres for disaster risk reduction and development studies,' said Muhammad Sani Sidi, director general of NEMA...

'We want to do a lot more community-based preparedness exercises. We want to provide more support to the implementation of national and local preparedness, and response policies, plans and systems. There are some good examples from different parts of the country and the aim is to share this with everyone,' stated OCHA’s Humanitarian Coordinator Jacqui Badcock...

'If insurers are prevented from setting premiums in line with underlying risks this could distort the incentives that premiums give households and businesses to manage their risks effectively,' argue the writers of the draft report...