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This brochure presents the products combining risk reduction and insurance for low income groups such as small-holding farmers and day labourers that will be designed and implemented by the Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean programme

The increasing risk of disasters threatening the Euro-Mediterranean region and the growing importance of strategies to reduce disaster risks will be at the heart of the third meeting of the PPRD South Steering Committee to take place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 14 June 2011...

Bringing technological advancements to the attention of the 14 PPRD South partner countries is the main objective of a workshop and simulation exercise, organized by the EU-funded Programme on Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Natural and Man-made Disasters and to be held next week in the South of France...

28 experts in Disaster Risk Information Management from the Civil Protection Authorities of 14 Mediterranean and Balkan countries will meet from 10 to 13 May in Rome to learn how to use and further develop the PPRD South Risk Atlas. More on geographic information systems at the Global Platform...

The document serves the purpose of providing up to date information relating to National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction within the UNISDR Europe Region. To date 27 NPs have been officially nominated in UNISDR Europe Region. (Last updated 11

'Mindful of human and economic cost, investment in preventing and mitigating disasters saves both lives and money, the latter at some 1:7 ratio' said Alexander Avanessov, UN Resident Coordinator in Montenegro at the opening of a three-day meeting 'National platform for disaster risk reduction in Montenegro'.

Homeowners, farmers, private business, and government agencies in Southeast Europe and the Caucasus will have access to affordable disaster insurance thanks to an innovative new program supported by World Bank financing...

Officials from Mediterranean Civil Protection Authorities will meet in Rome next week, together with the European Commission and the United Nations, to assess the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the Mediterranean and to review the contribution provided by the PPRD South Programme...