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This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in South Africa, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, drought, storm, wild fire, tornado and cyclone.
Guide to extreme heat planning in South Africa for the human health sector: A package of practical, feasible, and low-cost interventions at the individual and community level can assist people to adapt to high temperatures.
The objective of the day is therefore to celebrate how women and girls are reducing their risk to disasters and raising awareness about the importance of Disaster Risk Reduction in development programmes.
From July 2-6, 2012, the Understanding Risk (UR) Community will convene in Cape Town, South Africa for the biennial UR Forum.
'The strategy which has been developed is a pro-active rather than reactive approach.' The strategy comprises four categories: monitoring, mitigation, adaptation and resilience...
This event will highlight the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well being and the need for collaborative action and sufficient funding for strategic mitigation and adaptation measures to minimize climate chan
International Relations Minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, declared: 'We are concerned that adaptation is not receiving the priority attention that it deserves...'
The City of Cape Town has partnered with the Provincial Department of Local Government and the National Department of Cooperative Governance to organise, fund and participate in the three-day United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Redu
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.