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Thanks to a solid disaster risk reduction strategy, the Albay Provincial Safety and Emergency Management Office (APSEMO) recently reported that no casualty had been recorded, despite the 73 landslides brought by continuous heavy rains in the province for the past 18 days, reports Mike dela Rama for PNA...

Senator Loren Legarda called on local government units (LGUs) to start the year right by joining the 'Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready!' campaign of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to ensure that their communities are disaster resilient...

The Canadian Red Cross delegation met with Pakistan Red Crescent Society Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chairman, Dr Sher Mohammad Khan yesterday to discuss the provision of health and prevention, training on disaster management and disaster reduction, and capacity building for staff, reports the Express Tribune...

HRF donors highlight the strategic finance provided to support the operation of the Haitian gov, to provide housing and neighborhood restoration, manage debris, enhance education, assist small and medium-enterprises, mitigate disaster risks, and promote development in the southern part of the country...

Philippine Information Agency Region 8 Director Olive Tiu has encouraged local disaster risk reduction and management councils to secure a map of their respective municipalities with all the barangays indicated...

Throughout January, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency will focus on hazard mitigation as part of its 2011 Preparedness Campaign. 'We hope to increase awareness of hazard mitigation and encourage more communities to implement hazard mitigation actions, said IEMA interim director, Joe Klinger...

Lt Gen Nadeem Ahmed (Rtd), Chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, Pakistan, said 'By understanding the approaches adopted by the AKDN in Pakistan, I have learned about the strong impact of communities' involvement in the development process. My interactions with and observation of Focus' work has helped me understand how we can build resilient communities, in the wake of frequently occurring natural disasters.'...

The Dominion quotes New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister McCully as saying 'My own personal view is that we should avoid placing too much emphasis on the quantity of aid spending and place more priority on the quality of the spend', responding to the OECD report urging NZ to step up foreign aid contributions, including disaster risk management and climate change...

In the wake of recent floods and landslides, early passage of House Bill No. 3528, also known as the 'People’s Survival Fund (PSF)' is sought to help local government units adapt to climate change with a long-term, predictable fund dedicated to adaptation programs of local governments and communities...

Activities have begun in Egypt under an EU-funded civil protection project, as part of an awareness raising effort to help promote children’s and women’s awareness of risks they run in their daily life and to prepare them to react to potential disasters...