News & Announcements

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In his op-ed for Kantipur, Ratindra Khatri compares Kathmandu to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in addressing the shift from disaster management to disaster risk reduction and risk management, and the importance of community based disaster risk management...
Kantipur Publications Pvt. Ltd.
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According to new statistics published by CRED and UNISDR, 302 human impact disasters inflicted record economic damages of $366 billion in 2011.
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Benjamin Franklin is famous for the adage 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure', reports USAID. 'We know that prudent measures to improve response, to increase disaster management capacity, and to plan and prepare can have dramatic dividends'...
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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'It’s shocking that the poorest people are still bearing the brunt of a failure to respond swiftly and decisively. We know that acting early saves lives but collective risk aversion meant aid agencies were reluctant to spend money until they were certain there was a crisis'...
Oxfam International Secretariat
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'Investments on DRR such as flood control, forest management, hazard identification, mapping and assessment, research and development, preparedness and risk financing must be increased, made more effective and must show results'...
Office of Senator Loren Legarda
Japan earthquake & tsunami damage March 2011
For two consecutive years the long-term disasters trend has been bucked by major earthquakes which claimed thousands of lives and affected millions in both 2010 and 2011, according to new statistics published today by CRED and the UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Swedish flags
“In Sweden we have legislation that requires our communities, municipalities to work with a lot of aspects that are in the ‘ten essentials’ of the Making Cities Resilient campaign,” said Janet Edwards, International Coordinator of the Swedish National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, the body that brings together institutions in the country whose work touches on disaster risk reduction.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
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Selon CatNat, un SMS donnera aujourd'hui le coup d'envoi de la plus grande simulation sismique jamais organisée dans le centre du Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) de Cadarache (Bouches-du-Rhône)...
Ubyrisk Consultants

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