Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

One year ago, the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami took 13,007 lives in Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima -- the country's three most affected prefectures; 54 percent of those fatalities were women and girls.

The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, marked International Women's Day today with a call to governments in the world's most disaster-prone countries to "empower girls and women through education and access to resources as part of building resilience to disasters at community level.

'We cannot prevent the occurrence of natural hazards, but we can prevent the loss of lives and damage to livelihood and properties if we make our communities prepared against earthquakes or any kind of disaster, said Senator Loren Legarda...

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.

The project, which is mostly targeting primary school children through radio programmes, addresses the question of protecting the environment by keeping traditional knowledge and customs alive...

This document adresses indigenous knowledge for predicting hazards and low-cost approaches on early warning for household level preparedness. It captures cases studies aimed to facilitate the assimilation of existing techniques of forecasting natural

This document depicts the life of people living in one of the Chars (river islands) in Gaibanda, the disasters they face and their coping strategies. It also provides the summary of interventions carried so far in the area of disaster risk reduction under

Ce rapport fait état des principaux résultats de l’enquête sur les Connaissances, Attitudes et Pratiques (CAP) quant à la gestion des risques de catastrophes naturelles des communautés haïtiennes.