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'In Fiji, the collaborative work of the Nadi Basin Catchment Committee is enabling practical solutions to reduce the human impacts of flooding,' said Pacific Community DG, Dr Rodgers. 'This pioneering work demonstrates what can be achieved when communities, agencies and the private sector come together to face a problem that is not solvable through the efforts of individuals'...

'Natural Disasters are becoming more intense and more frequent. The triple disaster that hit Japan in March 2011 showed that even the best prepared countries can be overwhelmed by the force of nature. We can better meet these challenges by working together. I am convinced that exchanging information and best practices will benefit us both, the EU and Japan,' said Commissioner Georgieva...

'Most NGOs have longstanding gender commitments, and are beginning to incorporate them in their climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction,' says Kulima’s Katharine Vincent. 'However, what we have noticed is that despite ongoing theoretical commitment, there is a lack of support tools which particularly address questions of how to integrate a gender-sensitive approach to CCA'...

UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlström today participated in the launch of a National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bosnia and Herzegovina where over 400,000 people have been affected by floods and drought since the beginning of the century, taking a major toll on the country's economic development.

Environmental experts have warned that increasingly tough climatic conditions around the world are making it much harder to meet the growing demand for food. 'This calls for more adaptation techniques to enhance food productivity,' said Evans Kituyi, a climate change adaptation specialist at the International Development Research Centre in Nairobi...

Italy has moved to empower its leaders to make better informed decisions to reduce the country's overall disaster risk.

Los Consejos Departamentales y Municipales de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres de la región Caribe e instituciones que trabajan esta temática, participaron en un taller de contextualización acerca de la amenaza de tsunami y huracanes para esta zona del país, donde, además, se dieron a conocer los protocolos nacionales de actuación frente a estos fenómenos, según el Diario el Informador...

Uno de los ámbitos de la seguridad que ha recibido especial atención en los últimos años es la reducción del riesgo de desastres; así se manifestó en la Feria bianual Integral de Seguridad, donde el Jefe de la Oficina Regional de la UNISDR resaltó la importancia del rol que debe jugar el sector privado...