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Displaying 120 of about 356 resultsThis year’s activities intend to, among other things, highlight stories of action and initiative by women and girls, while attempting to move beyond the tendency to portray them as victims. Celebrations for International Natural Disaster Reduction Day include a march that culminates with a rally in support of women and girls, at Independence Square on O…
The thrust for the activities will be the promotion of awareness to the general population and various stakeholders.
Disaster Risk Reduction Day 2011 focused on children and their role in disaster risk management, as it was outlined that during times of disaster they tend to suffer most from discomfiture.
This year the focus is on women and girls. A min…
Los Talleres Internacionales de Ingeniería y Arquitectura para la Reducción de Desastres (TIARD), los que ya van a su Quinta Edición en el 2010, serán convocado por el Centro Nacional de Referencia para la Prevención y Mitigación de Desastres (PREMIDES).
En el marco de la 15 Convención Científica de Ingeniería y Arquitectura (CCIA 15), convoca desde el…
The event will discuss climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in the Carribean.
In 2009 the Government of the Republic of Colombia under the coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and supported by the Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation, (ACCION SOCIAL), and the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), started the Colombian Cooperation Strategy with the Caribbean Basin, initiative that ai…
The seminar "Forefront and challenging geospatial technologies for environment and disaster management in Southeast Asia" is organized by the Regional Network office for Urban Safety (RNUS).
RNUS is a collaborative center jointly operated by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the International Center for Urban Safety Engineering (ICUS), the…
This conference is organized by the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP), National University of Singapore; Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (LMV), Université Blaise Pascal; and the Working Group for Large Rivers and Climate Change, International Association of Geomorphologists. It is part of the STIC Asia research (sponsored by t…
Background
Evidence of the havoc climate change can cause arrives daily, especially in regions already vulnerable and ill prepared such as Haiti. In Kenya, a prolonged drought has meant that nearly ten million people, almost a third of the population, require food aid. Crops are failing and livestock, without water or food, are dying. Wildlife -the b…
Fiji's National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), along with Act for Peace and Fiji Red Cross, is celebrating National Disaster Awareness Week from 11-15 October 2010. The NDMO is holding a National Disaster Exercise in Nadi as part of a program to ensure that Fiji's vulnerable populations build their capacity to be resilient to the risks and impacts o…
The aim of this event is to discuss the implementation of the MCDEM Pacific DRM program under its MOU with NZ MFAT for support to the 5 PICs of Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Nuie, and Tokelau. The focus will be on implementing key priorities and practical initiatives, collaboration with regional partners, early warning systems, public education and nation…
The National Disaster Management Office will be organizing a workshop to give an introduction on disaster management from 7-9 June 2011.
This three-day international expert meeting focuses on the challenges that climate change poses to education systems in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). SIDS are among the most vulnerable countries with regard to climate change and are already confronted with its effects, including rising sea levels and changes in climate extremes such as droughts…
Expert Group Meeting (EGM) organized by UNHABITAT Amman office. The main objective of the EGM is to produce a revised, comprehensive set of indicators to be used as key indicators for Urban Observatories at all levels, by streamlining the available literature on urban indicators through critical overview of several sets of international indicators. The…
Guest speakers deployed to Haiti will talk about their activities in developing community-based disaster risk reduction programmes for the 2010 hurricane season and supporting community-driven mitigation initiatives:
- Lise Anne Pierce, Manager, BC Disaster Management, Canadian Red Cross, Disaster Risk Reduction Delegate, Haiti
- Monty Crisp, Internati…
El Programa tiene como objetivo que los estudiantes sean capaces de identificar y prevenir las afectaciones psicológicas en situaciones de desastres, emplear las principales técnicas de apoyo psicológico para disminuir el impacto psicosocial en individuos y grupos vulnerables,diagnosticar la situación de salud mental comunitaria en un escenario de des…