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Displaying 14 of about 14 resultsEach 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…
This book is a collaborative effort by many agencies and technical leaders to challenge the leaders from the whole-of-society to help unify experiences and resources to successfully manage and mitigate the impact of future pandemics and other global disasters. It outlines the human, economic and societal benefit of increasing collaboration, planning and…
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), through the Climate Services Centre, is organizing the Fifteenth Southern Africa Region Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-15). This will be followed by a Disaster Risk Reduction stakeholders training workshop, 29-30 August 2011.
The main objective of SARCOF-15 is to develop a consensus climate outlook for peri…
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Contexte du poste
Le projet-pilote de 2012 se focalise sur des activités WASH avec un axe de Réduction des Désastres et des Risques, pour renforcer les capacités nationales et communautaires dans la composante WASH de préparation aux catastrophes. Aussi, IO a prévu certaines activités techniquement WASH pour donner une réponse aux zones les…
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…
Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable, de Transports et du Logement - communiqué de presse
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement, a présenté aujourd’hui, en présence de Jean JOUZEL, Vice-Président du Groupe d’Experts Intergouvernemental sur l’Evolution du Climat (GIEC), l…
Practical approaches to advance disaster preparedness
This document describes the 'Towards a Safer World initiative' a stock-taking of what has been achieved through the coordinated, multi-sectoral, 'whole-of-society' approach used by pandemic planning during the past five years. The initiative aims to identify which approaches have proved effective…
“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…
Press release: Towards A Safer World launched to capture lessons from pandemic preparedness to help disaster professionals better plan, coordinate and respond to all types of disasters
Rome, Italy - The United Nations System for Influenza Coordination (UNSIC) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have organized a new global initiative…
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El boletín de Salud Pública y Gestión del Riesgo para América Latina y el Caribe del CRID, correspondiente al mes de agosto, incluye, entre otras noticias, información sobre el avance de la región en la implantación del Programa Hospitales Seguros frente a Desastres, un informe sobre el estado del dengue en Las Américas, así como los últim…
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…
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…
The overall goal of this study is to strengthen the quality, accuracy, and completeness of disaster data in Europe. As part of the MICRODIS project, the study analyses the impact of recent disasters on human populations, using both statistical and spatial data through generated geocoded maps of impact areas. It is intended to serve as a preliminary and…