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'Women are grounded in local socioeconomic and risk realities, they are able to mobilize their community to develop disaster risk reduction solutions that are innovative and dynamic, and could better ensure that local authorities and civil society actors become partners in sustainable development' highlights a study, part of the Mid-Term Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action launched this week in Rome...

'In Niue we understand the importance of ensuring we can build our resilience through climate change mitigation and adaptation, but we are also working to ensure that we can build our economic resilience and sustain our own developments over the long term,' said Niue’s Premiere, Mr. Toke Talagi...

'National action must lead the way in delivering clear results on the ground,' stressed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a message to the Ministerial Regional Conference on Climate Change in the Pacific, welcoming efforts by some Pacific Island States to strengthen resilience and reduce disaster risk...

The United Nations office assisting countries with disaster risk reduction is calling for more coordinated and coherent action across different sectors of government to reduce setbacks caused by hazards such as droughts, earthquakes and hurricanes...

UNISDR welcomes the report of the Multilateral Aid Review (MAR) of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) as an innovative and critical contribution to strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of international cooperation frameworks for the delivery of aid. The analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the multilateral system is very interesting and reiterates familiar issues, particularly on the perceived weaknesses; some of which require solutions that are not always possible for organizations in isolation.

'Our core business is to carry losses from natural catastrophes. With primary insurance and reinsurance, we help to cushion at least the financial consequences of such events for the people and regions affected' said Chairman of the Board of Management, announcing a profit of €2.43bn for 2010...

'We are going to increase development aid to Nepal. And quite a lot of money will go into disaster risk reduction,' Alan Duncan, UK Minister of State for International Development told República after his visit to earthquake prone localities in Chhetrapati area of Kathmandu this week...

A new study from McGill University offers credibility to long-standing warnings that the effects of climate change will be the greatest for countries that contribute to global warming the least. The study presents the projected effects of climate change on the human population in 2050, identifying who will be the most effected and in what ways...

UK Minister of State for International Development, Alan Duncan, unveiled a new development plan for Nepal yesterday, which is hoped will reduce the climate vulnerability of three million poor people, lifting 570,000 people out of poverty through forestry programs alone. Duncan also highlighted the need to work toward reducing the risk of possible earthquake in Kathmandu...

The Regional Development Council (RDC) has urged local government units to pass a resolution adopting President Aquino’s administrative order no. 1 directing local government units (LGUs) to integrate the disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) to all local development plans...