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The drill aims to mainstream disaster management, and accelerate emergency preparedness and risk reduction across Aga Khan Development Network in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Tajikistan...

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has claimed that the existing integrated early warning system is now better able to evaluate and communicate information well in time to all stakeholders in case of flooding or even tsunami threat in the Indian Ocean...

Taiwan and China have agreed to cooperate more closely on nuclear power safety and disaster preparedness in the wake of Japan's atomic crisis this year, Taipei authorities said Wednesday...

Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has started modernising and strengthening their flood forecasting and warning services in line with the recommendations given in the Judicial Flood Commission (JFC) report...

'Need of the hour was to work towards community preparedness. The climate across the glob is changing and communities have to be prepared to reduce the risk in case of any disaster,' said Caritas Internationals Secretary General Michel Roy...

'Better water management would be a critical part of this as would better flood forecasting and warning systems, better flood preparedness, improved response capability and an increased capacity among local authorities to implement these measures.'...

Organisations like PFF, Oxfam and NDP are helping people by introducing DRR programmes which adopt a systematic approach to reducing the risks of disaster as well as the socio-economic vulnerabilities that come along with such incidents...

DFID has built in disaster risk reduction to all its programmes, such as disease early warning systems to avoid mass outbreaks, highlights the International News' report on the UK's investment in Pakistan recovery just one year after the devastating floods...