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The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) is the office within USAID that is responsible for providing emergency non-food humanitarian assistance in response to international crises and disasters. OFDA is part of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) and is organized into three divisions.
The Di…
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is seeking a talented professional for the role of Community Development Specialist. The Community Development Specialist plays a key role in developing and implementing community engagement and support strategies, open and transparent accountability and feedback mechanisms, developing community capacity, and de…
The overall objective of the project is to reduce the vulnerability of the beneficiaries to natural and man-made disasters at local, national and regional levels.
The fields of activities of the project will be to raise awareness, build capacity and implement:
- early warning systems
- host nation support
- emergency dispatch centres and to bring…
Context of the position:
The humanitarian sector has developed and become increasingly more sophisticated in response to the complexities of disasters and the contexts in which they occur. Correspondingly, we seek to engage ourselves in higher levels of understanding around humanitarian issues affecting people. Disasters are the biggest threat to deve…
Objective
The DMC participant will learn how to:
- Develop effective strategies and systems for disaster response and recovery
- Integrate disaster response and recovery arrangements with disaster reduction strategies and systems
- Apply risk management processed in order to identify, assess and deal with disaster risks
- Utilize an emergency coord…
This event will address the relationship between climate change and the increase of disasters in Brazil; aspects of disaster management to be discussed are: prevention, response, reconstruction. It will also develop proposals for the Civil Defence and Risk Reduction Disaster System.
Indonesia Disaster Management Expo 2010 which was due to be held from 20-22 October 2010 will now take place from to 4-6 November 2010 in order to synergize with the ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response Simulation Exercise (ARDEX). The venue is still the Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran.
Indonesia Disaster Management Expo is the first intern…
Background:
UNESCO launched the International Platform for Reducing Earthquake Disasters (IPRED) programme to identify gaps and priorities through the sharing of scientific knowledge in seismology and earthquake engineering. The other main goal is to bolster political will and public awareness to ensure better preparation against earthquakes and to crea…
Conference details
The conference provides a forum to discuss the integration of hazard information into effective risk management, including:
- Applying hazard information to best practice planning
- Developing effective warning systems
- Improved response and recovery from events
- Creating resilient communities through integrating science into…
Overview
Hosted by the Aston Centre for Research into Safety and Security (CRISIS), the International Conference on Emergency Preparedness (InterCEPt) aims to facilitate the exchange of academic research, innovations and best operational practices in the management of emergency preparedness. InterCEPt provides a unique opportunity for academics, practi…
Two Western Washington University faculty members who carried out research in Haiti after it was devastated by an earthquake will report their findings Wednesday, March 17.
Scott Miles, director of Huxley College of the Environment's Resilience Institute, and Rebekah Green, institute associate director, will talk about disaster risk reduction in Haiti…
These three sectoral reports were produced to complete the Malaysian National slope master plan 2009-2023 with the aim of formulating a detailed, comprehensive and effective framework of policies, strategies and action plans to reduce risks from landslides on slopes nationwide. The plan included activities at the national, state and local levels in both…
Project summary
The recent earthquakes in West Java and West Sumatra re-confirmed Indonesia as one of the most natural disaster-prone countries in the world. They also surface some significant gaps in the implementation of the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) framework in spite of important investments made over the years by the government, donors, nation…
An experienced engineer is required with proven overseas experience in the practical design and implementation of construction and shelter projects to provide expertise to Tearfund’s Disaster Management reconstruction work in Haiti.
The position will provide structural engineering advice and oversight to construction projects in the form of design, rev…
Context
The British Red Cross (BRC) helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global voluntary network, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement), which responds to conflicts, natural disasters and individual emergencies. The Movement consists of 186 National Societies, who have a special status…