Latest additions to the knowledge base

One of the highlights of the LGU Summit +3i was the formal launching of the Climate Change Academy essentially a repository of knowledge and expertise on local adaptation practices, reports the blog of the Green Economist, alias Joey Salceda, Governor of Albay...

To maximize the resilience of its urban communities, the Makati City government recently conducted a symposium on Reducing Risks in Health and Education Sector, part of the three-month long capacity building course on Climate and Disaster Resilience Initiative (CDRI)...

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea in Geneva have signed an MoU to establish a new UNISDR Regional Office for NE Asia and a training Centre for disaster management, located in Incheon...

This plan aims to facilitate the adoption by the Member States of the theme 'hospitals safe from disaster' as a national risk reduction policy, and achievement of the goal of constructing all new hospitals with a level of protection.

The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2009-11 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.

NewMarket Technology reports that the acquisitions follow the Greenfield Partnership Program Trade Mission and Private Sector Disaster Risk Reduction Pilot Program held in Kenya last October. The pilot programme is intended to urge private sector innovation and investment aimed at reducing disaster risk...

'Adequate coastal management interventions such as those supported by the Bank in Barbados, show that it is possible to achieve positive synergies between the disaster risk prevention and mitigation and a strategic sector such as tourism, to maximize the economic benefits for the country,' according to Héctor Malarín, Chief of Environment, Rural Development and Disaster Risk Management at the IDB...

'Disasters aren’t so natural' stated Elizabeth Ferris, Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in a presentation this week, on ethical issues raised by the comparison of two responses to disasters...