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An agreement for a US$2.3 million grant for a community-based landslide risk reduction project in Jamaica was signed last week between the Government of Jamaica, the World Bank and the Japanese Social Development Fund (JSDF)...

FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards...

The OECS Secretariat has secured US$ 400,000 from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and US$90,000 from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to begin a new project focused on mainstreaming disaster risk management in OECS Member States...

This document aims at warning Haitians about the possibility of coming wind related hazards. It intends to provide them with basic guidelines for mitigation. It recommends that local people and authorities have a “Preparedness Plan” for wind-related

Nairobi, May 10-21 2010:

This document calls on Parties at SBSTTA-14 to consider some recommendations in preparation for the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, including: the establishment of multi

This document reports on ProAct achievements in 2009, particularly in using environmental management to help people improve resilience to disasters, climate change and humanitarian crises. It addresses: (i) livelihood security as part of community

Katharine Sanderson reports on a global project in pilot phase, the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). The Model aims to predict the risk of earthquakes to different communities...

Thousands of earthquake survivors living in camps are vulnerable to landslides and flooding due to hurricanes, according to an evaluation of camp sites carried out by international agency Oxfam...