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To answer the need for incorporation of risk reduction and mitigation measures in all existing and future plans and policies, NHEPRN undertook a course focusing on disaster management in terms of development and policy issues...

The Act allows the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) to be more proactive as 'huge funds are earmarked to be used in disaster risk reduction' reports the OCD's Regional Director, who also reports on the upcoming establishment of Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Offices (LDRRMO)...

This paper assesses tropical storms or hurricanes as potentially important and additional complicating factors that could exacerbate the management of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the North Atlantic hurricane season officially begins on June 1

This report profiles the hazards of Myanmar in order to help in identification and prioritisation of future disaster preparedness and mitigation interventions.

It has been six months since a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, causing major damage to the capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding areas. “Reconstruction will take years but Haiti must emerge safer,” says Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction. “After the tsunami six years ago, people have not yet fully recovered. Rebuilding involving all key national actors takes time and is a necessary step to make Haiti truly sustainable.”

A paper published in Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Social Protection, pp 201-217:

By exploring the relationship between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection, the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) researchers

28 July 2010, Assignment No. AN2009/387/01:

The United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) conducted an audit of the governance and organizational structure of the inter-agency secretariat to the United Nations International Strategy for

The 41st meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum, which took place in Vanuatu last week, concluded with the issuance of a communiqué which contains a section on the integration of climate change adaptation and mitigation into broader national development efforts...