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Urban flooding is a serious and growing development challenge for fast growing low and middle-income countries in East Asia, underscoring an urgent need to build flood risk management into regular planning of cities and towns. It provides operational guidance on how to manage the risk of floods in the face of urbanization, growing populations and long-term climate change trends...

In advance of critical rainfall forecasts for the Horn of Africa, the UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, today announced a partnership with the WMO-supported African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) to ensure rapid dissemination of weather updates to disaster managers.

'The government is aware that there are pockets of drought, but unfortunately because of elections they are not doing enough about it,' said Abdou Aziz Diallo, president of the Senegalese Red Cross in Dakar. 'The elections make the whole response sensitive - we’re a bit blocked.'...

A resolution requesting the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council through the Mayor’s Office to conduct regular city-wide earthquake drills for all sectors, was passed by the Sangguniang Panglungsod of Bacolod City Wednesday...

El COPPE, instituto de posgrado de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro, ha desarrollado una novedosa tecnología para la prevención de inundaciones y sequías, especialmente en la región amazónica...

A través del proyecto 'Proyecto Desarrollo de Capacidades Locales en Gestión de Riesgo a Desastres', varias acciones encaminadas a aumentar la resiliencia comunitaria ante desastres tanto en la colonia Canaán de Tegucigalpa como en el sur del país...

A new groundbreaking report due out next month underlines how the well-being of vulnerable, impoverished populations living in parts of the world most exposed to disasters fuelled by climate change, will be severely undermined in the coming century.

'There's no easy answer to the conceptual divide over where responsibility for DRR should lie,' told John Holmes, the U.N. emergency relief coordinator from 2007-2010. 'The humanitarian sector has taken it on, when it's really a task for development people'...