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Displaying 105 of about 356 results2015 will be an exciting year for the conference. As the theme suggests, this forum will be the first checkpoint for reporting on the progress made after two years of the implementation of the 2014-2024 Caribbean Comprehensive Disaster Management Strategy. Consequently, a number of new initiatives will be unveiled. These include the Monitoring, Evaluati…
How can vulnerable neighbourhoods in fast-growing cities become more resilient to disasters and climate change?
While urbanisation brings unprecedented social and economic opportunity, it also increases the threat of disasters, with greater concentrations of people living in dangerous places, such as those living in coastal areas, on land that flo…
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The course addresses effective disaster management at strategic and policy levels, focusing on the preparedness and response phase of the disaster management cycle. It provides a wide-ranging discourse on issues and challenges facing emergency authorities in disaster management at the national level. The programme also shares with int…
Theme: "Innovative and sustainable solutions to climate change"
Singapore is pleased to host the inaugural edition of the World Engineers Summit (WES) come September 2013. Engineers from multiple disciplines and climate change specialists from all over the world will congregate to share ideas and insights on climate change.
The week-long event will in…
The course aims to provide participants with in-depth knowledge on the policies and regulatory frameworks for the development and management of climate change adaptation strategies. Participants will learn how to handle climate change issues with practical and sustainable solutions.
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Singapore's policies and regulatory frameworks…
Since its establishment, the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) has organized four Summits of Heads of State and Government, which took place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, in August 1995; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in April 1999; Margarita Island, Venezuela, in December 2001; and Panama City, Republic of Panama, in July 2005.
This y…
AASTMT and GFDRR are offering the Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Framework (CDRMF) on-line course for development practitioners, central, state and local government officials, NGO representatives, community leaders and others interested in challenges and issues related to disaster risk reduction and management. The course is offered to participa…
The consultations in Solomon Islands were conducted as a complementary activity to the HFA Monitor Country Progress Review. Issues discussed included i) achievements, challenges, and opportunities, ii) disaster and development, iii) accountability and governance, iv) linking DRM and climate change.
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Les Etats membres de la Communauté Economique des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale (CEEAC) (Angola, Burundi, Cameroun, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Guinée Equatoriale, République Centrafricaine, République Démocratique du Congo, São Tomé et Principe et Tchad), sont confrontés à divers types de catastrophes naturelles. C’est dans ce conte…
A review organised by the Tuvalu NDMO, Office of the President, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) Progress Review is a voluntary multi-tier process for regional, national and local levels, led and owned by IGOs, national and local governments, respectively. The HFA Online Monitor tool offers three separate but interlinked HFA review tools and methodo…
A review organised by the Kiribati NDMO, Office of the President, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) Progress Review is a voluntary multi-tier process for regional, national and local levels, led and owned by IGOs, national and local governments, respectively. The HFA Online Monitor tool offers three separate but interlinked HFA review tools and metho…
This meeting will bring together technical experts together with Government representatives of the 16 countries within CARIFORUM, including Cuba in the field of climate change and will provide a forum in which international consultants who have been recruited to conduct assessments of the economic and social impacts of climate change on the agriculture,…
A workshop will be held on Saturday 13 October 2012 in Male targeting women teachers and girl students from all Schools. The workshop will focus on Gender, Resilience and Women's role in DRR in the Maldives. There will be guest speakers from UNDP and the Ministry of Gender.
On October 13 the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) of Vanuatu and partners are inviting the public to participate in celebrating the International Disaster Day with a half day event in the morning at the seafront. This will conclude a full week of events focusing around the theme for this year’s disaster day “Women and Girls are Powerful Agent…
The Vanuatu Humanitarian Team have organised a week long Gender and Gender Based Violence in Humanitarian Action workshop with the support of UN Women and GenCAP advisors from Fiji.