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Displaying 60 of about 356 resultsWithin the framework of the Regional Initiative for the Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is organizing a Regional Workshop on Regional Climate Model (RCM) Applications and Analysis, from 2 to 4 July…
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…
En el marco de la celebración del Día Internacional de la Reducción de Desastres, La Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira y Protección Civil Táchira, Venezuela, programaron este simposio donde se compartirá con la comunidad universitaria la experiencia de los docentes y funcionarios de estas instituciones en las actividades de capacitación y at…
Solomon Islands, being the country with nearly half of its population youths and children under the age of 29, believe that it is more profound and necessary to engage children and youths in the national disaster risk reduction campaign. Thus, NDMO and other DRR sectors in collaboration with UNISDR will celebrate the IDDR on the 13th of October, 2011.…
The Third Session of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG/CARIBE EWS-III) held in Panama City, 12-14 March, 2008 recommended to develop capabilities for modeling tsunami events through holding a Workshop on ComMit (NOAA’s MOST model).
In the above f…
What can communities do for themselves and how can they maintain basic functions and structures during a disaster and then recover after the event is the focus of the workshop on Communities Resilience During and After Disasters organised by the EU-funded PPRD South Programme in Madrid from 12 to 15 September 2011.
More than 40 experts working in the N…
URISA is pleased to announce the Fifth Caribbean GIS Conference, taking place December 6-10, 2010 in Trinidad.
The theme of this year's conference is: Geospatial Technologies: Connecting our Industries in Meeting the Region's Challenges.
The conference committee, chaired by Dr. Jacob Opadeyi, from the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Man…
The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), through the CDM Harmonized Implementation Programme (CDM HIP): Phase I, and in collaboration with the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) of Belize, will conduct a country work programming workshop at NEMO’s headquarters in Belmopan.
Participants at the workshop will comprise, of…
President Mauricio Funes, along with the presidents of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, Porfirio Lobo of Honduras, Daniel Ortega from Nicaragua and delegates from Belize, Costa Rica and Panama gathered together in the XXXVII Meeting of Heads of State and Government of the countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA)in San Salvador, El Salvador.
The purpose of the DRM workshop is both to develop practical skills for humanitarian practitioners who are involved in initiatives across the Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRMC) spectrum, as well as to provide knowledge of broader DRM issues and best practice scenarios. This is a practically-based intensive workshop which combines both classroom teach…
This workshop will address the successes (best practices) and the remaining room for improvement and recommendations for similar activities.
This Workshop aims to:
- Develop a cadre of trainers who would deliver the Programme and Tools in communities across the region;
- Build capacity in community, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and;
- Enable participants to undertake community training in the Module on Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) for communities with supporti…
El Programa tiene como objetivo que los estudiantes sean capaces de resolver problemas relacionados con la reducción de los riesgos a la salud provocados por las emergencias y los desastres para el fortalecimiento de la prevención, preparativos, respuesta y recuperación del sector de la salud ante dichas situaciones. El mismo tiene lugar de forma regula…
The objective is to present some of the adaptation tools that relevant actors (i.e. agencies, organisations, governments) are developing in Latin American countries regarding economic impacts in relevant sectors (agriculture, costal and metropolitan areas).