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The 2010-2011 World Disaster Reduction Campaign, Making Cities Resilient: 'My city is getting ready!' was launched at the Planning Africa 2010 conference, in Durban this week by the UN secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) in conjunction with UN-Habitat...
'The outcome of this training will create a super highway for spreading hazard and disaster risk reduction information to local communities, thereby increasing their knowledge base and consequently their resilience to natural disasters' said the Head of the UNISDR Regional Office for Africa...
Speaking at the Second Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Kenya today, Margareta Wahlström, a senior United Nations official, stressed that African countries should include disaster risk reduction in their national development plans, if efforts to reduce poverty are to succeed....
'For every $1 you use on disaster risk reduction, you save $5, which you would have used in addressing the impact of a disaster when it occurs' said Red Cross special programmes manager Abdishakur Othowa speaking in Nairobi during the International Day for Disaster Reduction this week...
According to the 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction parts of north-east Kenya will continue be exposed to famine due to lack of rain...
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