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Según informó el Ministerio de Defensa los dos ministros otorgarán declaraciones este viernes al finalizar toda la agenda de trabajo que contempla la presentación de un proyecto chileno para el desarrollo de mapas de riesgo...

UNDP sponsored disaster preparedness training programmes in Indonesia, including in education. Thousands of Acehnese are now replicating the training session in their own communities, helping expand the awareness raising campaign. UNDP has also helped develop a provincial risk map of key areas in Aceh, supporting the national and the local government to design policies on DRR...

Yeshayahu Bar-Or, deputy director-general of the Environmental Protection Ministry, took the opportunity to make a call for disaster prevention: 'The name of the game is risk management, and we want to reduce the risk. As long as there is a forest, there is a risk for fire'...

'Nicaragua is a highly seismic territory and we have to be ready to face such a contingency or others like heavy rain and out-of-season drought caused by climate change,' noted Murillo, Coordinator of the Communication and Citizenship Council...

'The cost-effectiveness of investing in pre-disaster activities has already been proven in other countries including China, Vietnam and Bangladesh. The use of the calamity fund for pre-disaster activities will boost the ongoing efforts of government agencies and LGUs and will hasten the realization of our goal to become a disaster-resilient nation'...

After the recent events happening in Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, Crispin Maslog calls for governments to apply knowledge from scientific research to better prepare for and cope with disasters, and to find ways to manage urban growth...

The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, met today with the Philippines Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Albert F. Del Rosario, following a three-day visit to the typhoon-devastated coastal cities of Iligan and Cayagan de Oro in Mindanao.

'There had been no clear guidelines on how to deal with future flooding in Bangkok and the surrounding provinces, and the government had yet to come up with a water resources management proposal,' said Pramote Maiklad, former director-general of the Royal Irrigation Department...