Health & health facilities

Each newsletter in this FAO Regional Emergency Office for Southern Africa (REOSA) series for DIPECHO/ECHO Food Security Partners introduces a specific disaster risk reduction (DRR) food security project, presents country updates and upcoming meetings.

EEA Technical report No 7/2011:

The present report summarises existing knowledge of climate change impacts on water services and health; the nature and effectiveness of the policy response; and the coverage and gaps in existing assessments of these

'Il est certain que si l’on ne se prépare pas, les coûts et les dommages seront alors bien supérieurs' a prononcé Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, ministre, lors de la présentation du plan français d’adaptation au changement climatique, le premier plan de cette ampleur dans l’Union européenne...

Reflect & act - July 2011, Research reveals the immense significance of ‘invisible’ water to the urban poor:

This briefing reflects on an International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) project on water resource management carried out

Main report, publication 1 of 5:

This report examines the current state of business engagement on climate change adaptation in South and Southeast Asia and  indentifies key barriers to greater private sector involvement. It aims to initiate a discussion

Brazil is increasing training opportunities for its disaster managers through the development of a new version of the International Course on Health, Disasters and Development, known as LEADERS (created by PAHO/WHO). The goal is to offer distance learning to disaster managers in about 5,600 Brazilian municipalities on surveillance of disaster risk factors...

Over the last five years, Peru has stood out among the countries of South America for the marked progress it has made in adopting a strategy on safe hospitals. The country has a National Safe Hospitals Committee, a national Policy on safe hospitals, and the budget to implement measures to ensure that hospitals remain safe after disasters...

The MDG Report 2011 highlights where progress is being made and where stronger efforts are urgently needed to meet each of the eight Goals. The report presents the latest statistics on each of the Goals, globally and regionally, collected through more