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La Comisión Nacional de Emergencias presentó ayer el Plan Nacional de Gestión Integral del Riesgo de Desastres, que incluye evaluación de infraestructuras, capacitación y educación, reporta DiarioLibre.com...

'Cuando el país vuelve a sufrir los efectos que un conjunto de peligros como inundaciones, huaicos, sequías o sismos producen sobre la infraestructura, surge la pregunta de cómo evitar que estos riesgos se conviertan, efectivamente, en desastres,' escribe Augusto Álvarez Rodrich en LaRepublica.pe...

'La experiencia ha demostrado que las primeras víctimas de un desastre son las mujeres,' manifestó la secretaria de Protección Civil, Noemí Guzmán Lagunes...

More than 40,000 people took part in a mass earthquake drill in Delhi yesterday to check the alertness and preparedness of the 16.7 million people living in the Indian capital in the event of a high intensity earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale.

'We want to complement the work of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) and to ensure that the Parish Disaster Committee of the St. Thomas Parish Council will now be able to chart the course in developing a strategic framework in terms of what needs to be done within the next five years'...

An aid worker based in Antananarivo, who declined to be identified, told IRIN that even those citizens in the capital who were usually 'well-informed' of events were unaware of the tropical storm’s imminent arrival...

'...a long-term commitment, we are confident that the knowledge and basic data to be generated from this initiative will be very useful for policy formulation on climate change at both the country and regional levels'...

Following the floods that devastated the Western and Northern parts of Fiji, the New Zealand government has pledged to set aside $2.2 million for disaster preparedness...