News & Announcements

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Air transport operators now have a scientific basis for decision making in the event of a volcanic eruption thanks to a manual published by ICAO and endorsed by industry partners...
International Civil Aviation Organization
Geologist Beverly Mae Brebante of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau pushed for gender and development to be mainstreamed in all stages of the disaster risk reduction program, to include both men and women as decision makers from prevention to recovery planning....
Philippine Information Agency
'The earthquake emphasizes how important it is to do all we can to prepare for future problems, and it is vital that civil society play an important role in working with communities to maximize their preparedness'...
Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction
'Ao término desses 12 encontros semanais, teremos cadastrado em nosso banco de dados as 460 principais ameaças naturais de desastre no território fluminense, que serão subsídio para a confecção do Mapa de Ameaças Naturais do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, uma das premissas do MAH', afirmou o Ten Cel BM Paulo Renato Martins Vaz, Diretor da EsDEC...
Escola de Defesa Civil
These billboards are a common sight around Japan explaining how communities can come together to reduce disaster risk. This particular billboard features popular Japanese cartoon character Maruko-chan.
The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, today paid tribute to the resilience of the Japanese people as they prepare to mark the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
© 2012 Australian Emergency Management Institute
Based on the Australian Gov Attorney General’s Dept Storm Action Guide, this game has been developed as part of the implementation of the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience endorsed by the Council of Australian Governments in 2011...
Australia - government
by Flickr user Tom Spender, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomspender/6095403530/
In a memorandum to all governors, city and municipal mayors, Department of the Interior and Local Government of the Philippines said that it is high time that women’s involvement in disaster preparedness, risk reduction, recovery and rehabilitation, is accentuated...
Philippine Information Agency
'These women faced floods every monsoon, and many disaster risk reduction initiatives were taking place in their settlements,' writes Anita Karki, a gender expert consultant at ICIMOD. 'Women had contributed to the construction of toilets and hand water pumps'...
Kantipur Publications Pvt. Ltd.

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