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The UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, and HE Yoichi Otabe, the Japanese Ambassador to the International Organizations in Geneva, announced today the start of consultations on a new international blueprint for reducing disaster losses in advance of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction which the Japanese government is proposing to host in 2015.

This document complements the Australian Multilateral Assessment (AMA) report and provides a more comprehensive analysis of the performance of United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) as an AusAID multilateral partner

'There is concern about the food security situation in 'Belg’-producing areas,' Judith Schuler, Ethiopia's spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP), told IRIN...

WFP is shifting its focus from emergency assistance towards targeted programmes, including building reservoirs, wells and roads which support communities' resilience to seasonal shocks, according to spokesperson McDonough, who said that in the past year WFP had doubled the number of nutrition programmes in Somalia...

L’idea è di creare all’Aquila una sorta di 'centrale per gestire le catastrofi naturali, in un’ottica di prevenzione', ha spiegato l’architetto Esposito, nel corso di un incontro con la stampa...

The main objective of the Sahel Regional Representation plan for 2012-2015 is to enhance the operational efficiency of the regional office and increase its capacity to engage with National Societies in the region in order to scale up humanitarian work in

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Premier volet de la stratégie du Conseil fédéral, version provisoire:

Cette stratégie fixe le cadre d’une démarche coordonnée au niveau fédéral pour l’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Elle doit permettre à la Suisse d’exploiter les

Le Conseil fédéral a adopté le premier volet de sa stratégie 'Adaptation aux changements climatiques en Suisse', dans lequel il définit les objectifs visés, les défis à relever et les champs d’action concernés. Il entend ainsi se préparer à des phénomènes tels que les sécheresses estivales ou les crues...