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The projects provided support in livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and access to safe water and sanitation for at least 5,000 households. Funded by Norway and Timor-Leste, the project activities are community-driven and centred on supporting under-assisted communities, especially those most vulnerable...

'Kerala has been continuously facing serious challenges in the form of natural disasters...It's high time we took measures to avoid these kinds of disasters, which cause heavy damage to the human kind and the economy of our state' said Chief Minister VS Achutanadan yesterday...

When a powerful earthquake struck Italy's Abruzzo region last year, UK Earth scientists were on the scene quickly to help authorities understand what had happened. Richard Phillips describes what they found...

This evaluation assesses progress towards achieving UNESCO’s work in disaster risk reduction and examines how progress might be enhanced through improving programme policy, design and delivery for the following outcomes: (i) tsunami early-warning systems

This document reports on the fifth session meeting held in Greece in 2008, which reviewed the progress made during the ICG/NEAMTWS intersessional period and the activities of the four Working Groups on (i) hazard assessment, risk and modelling; (ii)

This document is an evaluation of a joint Government of India (GoI)-United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) disaster risk management programme aimed at reducing people's vulnerability to natural and man-made disasters through building community

'Although 2009 was a year with relatively less human and economic impacts compared to previous years, it is difficult to identify clear trends over time,' says a new report issued by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)...

In an opinion piece, Pierre Jacquet, chief economist of the French Development Agency, stresses the need to support climate change mitigation and adaptation programmes initiated by governments, companies and civil society and highlights France's commitment to India, a country which 'has the potential to lead the way'...