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This issue highlights recent advances in the use of climate information to manage risks and improve livelihoods, such as new partnerships and user-designed information platforms. It draws together and analyses experiences from 17 case studies that capture the current state of knowledge. It also highlights research innovations…
Each newsletter in this FAO Regional Emergency Office for Southern Africa (REOSA) series for DIPECHO/ECHO Food Security Partners introduces a specific disaster risk reduction (DRR) food security project, presents country updates and upcoming meetings.
Issue 3: Reducing the risk of disaster in community based agriculture in Malawi
Issue 5: Mains…
“Risk reduction remains the core of Bhubaneswar’s development vision,” says Piyush Ranjan Rout, an urban management practitioner and co-founder of Local Governance Network, an NGO that nominated the city for the Sasakawa Award, in a report by Manipadma Jena for AlertNet.
Dili - Timor-Leste continues to invest in measures to minimise the effects of disasters, the United Nations top disaster risk reduction official said during a three day visit to the country.
“Timor-Leste is working hard to respond more effectively to natural disasters,” said the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reductio…
CAIRO, 23 November 2011 – The League of Arab States (LAS) and UNISDR move one step closer to a plan of action on disaster risk reduction for the Arab region. The action plan is expected to be endorsed at the first-ever Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab region planned for 2012.
Holding a series of consultations with disaster risk…
Climate change is likely to spread malaria to new areas in the Indian Himalayas, and lengthen the periods in which the infection is spread in a number of districts, according to projections from malaria researchers in India. "Strengthening health infrastructure and educating communities in vulnerable areas are the key tools," said Aditya Prasad Dash, re…
This study finds that 17 million people were newly displaced by sudden-onset disasters worldwide in 2009, and over 42 million people in 2010. To meet this challenge, the study recommends that greater collaboration is required between those working in the fields of humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and development. I…
“Now more than ever, it is of utmost importance that we put more effort into the prevention and control of climate-related diseases, and enhance the DoH’s [Department of Health] capacity for early warning for any outbreak,” said Senator Loren Legarda chair of the Senate committee on climate change that met yesterday.
“I urge the DoH to strengthen their…
GENEVA, 1 December 2011 - Feng Min Kan, a Senior Advisor at the UN disaster risk reduction office (UNISDR) admits that not a lot of people immediately see the connection between disasters and AIDS. "It’s just one of those issues that are not very obvious and slips under the radar".
“Just as we know that people do not have to die from disasters, we als…
GENEVA, 27 September 2011 – The head of the United Nation’s disaster risk reduction office, UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, today strongly backed the NGO initiative “Never Again: A Charter to End Extreme Hunger.”
“The Horn of Africa crisis is a wake-up call for aid agencies, governments and donors alike. Given the collective experience of responding to dr…
LAGOS, 23 September: In a further sign that Africa is mobilizing for its voice to be heard at the COP17 negotiations in Durban, the Mayors of major cities and chairmen of local governments across West Africa met this week in Lagos, Nigeria, to endorse and sign the African Mayors Climate Change Declaration.
Tunji Bello, Lagos State Commissioner for the…
Objectives of the programme
To reduce the health, social and economic burden of communicable diseases, by providing policy and technical support to Ministry of Public Health in order to enhance their capacity at all levels to carry out surveillance and monitoring of all communicable diseases of public health importance and achieve the minimum core capac…
This document presents a South-East Asia specific disaster risk reduction framework that provides more specific guidance to National Societies in acknowledgement of the Framework for Community Safety and Resilience and global guidance, which outlines the Red Cross Red Crescent approach to disaster risk reduction and guides National Society contributions…
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre press release
Geneva/Oslo - Over 42 million people across the world were forced to flee due to disasters triggered by sudden-onset natural hazards in 2010, according to a new study by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)’s Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). In 2009, 17 million people…