Advocacy and media

The Global Platform ended today with participants from more than 300 regional/national organizations and governments urging political leaders to implement measures to halve the number of deaths from natural hazards by 2015. > View full story

Your local media are great vehicles for reaching a larger audience and relaying fire safety messages for people ages 50 and older. The following tips will help you get results from the media.

This week’s Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will be carbon neutral, in line with the “Greening the UN” initiative which aims at climate neutrality. Accordingly, the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) secretariat, which

Chair's Summary, speeches, statements, videos, etc... Additional coverage on the Global Platform homepage

The 2009 laureate for the Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction is geologist Dr Eko Teguh Paripurno. He receives the award - valued at US$ 50,000 - for his lifetime contribution and his outstanding commitment to reduce disaster risk and building capacity at the community level in Indonesia, one of the countries most vulnerable to multiple hazards.

The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction opens in Geneva Leaders and representatives from some 165 Governments gathering here today for the 2009 Global Platform on Disaster Reduction will be urged to ‘invest today for a safer tomorrow’ – or face much harder decisions in the years to come.

This handbook will help users to conceptualize the risks, expand their knowledge on how to incorporate DRR in their current programmes, and design and develop appropriate programmes to communicate the risk with their audiences. Efforts were made to ensure

This edited volume contains 19 chapters authored by 21 contributors. Chapters discuss how information, education and communication can help create disaster resilient communities across the Asia Pacific region, home to half of humanity. It also takes a