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Displaying 15 of about 86 resultsTACLOBAN, 9 December 2013 – Sunday marked thirty days since Typhoon Haiyan (known as Yolanda locally) tried to rip the heart out of the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines with winds from hell that sucked the sea along with them to take the lives of thousands and leave millions homeless.
The strength of the Philippine people in the wake of one of…
GENEVA, 20 November 2013 – The private sector will be crucial to the massive recovery effort in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, one of the Philippines’ top chief executives said.
“A lot is expected from the private sector in the rehabilitation of calamity-stricken areas in the Philippines,” said Mr. Hans T. Sy, the President of SM Prime Holdings Inc, the c…
GENEVA, 23 September 2013 - Donor governments have signalled the need to better capture investments in disaster risk reduction to strengthen evidence of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
A roundtable of donors broadly supported efforts to improve tracking of international spending on disaster risk reduction as preparations for the T…
NEW YORK, 9 April 2013 - Early last Saturday morning, some 1,000 residents of the city of Hoboken in New Jersey, birthplace of the legendary crooner Frank Sinatra, came out in full force and high spirits to run a special race in aid of Hurricane Sandy disaster relief in both Hoboken and its sister city Port Maria in Jamaica.
"We are still recovering fr…
Press release 2013/452/AFR
Washington - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$108 million IDA* grant to support the Government of Cameroon’s efforts to rehabilitate embankments, dams and irrigation systems and improve disaster-preparedness in the Far North Region of Cameroon.
“Northern Cameroon is characterized by high pove…
Disaster losses would be cut if children knew what to do, they say
Geneva (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) - Children can and should play a crucial role in disaster risk reduction, a panel of children from disaster-prone regions told the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this afternoon.
Children from Ethiopia, Japan, Viet…
By Suzanne Fisher
People won’t become more resilient to the impacts of climate change unless the underlying causes of their vulnerability are analysed and addressed.
After the Asian tsunami hit the Andaman and Nicobar islands in 2004, destroyed houses needed to be rebuilt. But they weren’t just rebuilt with better materials. The repaired houses and as…
Early warning systems and cooperation among countries are some of the measures needed to increase resilience to water-related disasters, United Nations officials stressed today.
“Preparing for the worst can save lives. That is why we need early warning systems, disaster education and resilient structures,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his rema…
Johannesburg - No one working in the aid community in recent years could have avoided the buzzword “resilience” - but what does the term mean practically, and how has it helped shape action on the ground?
In fact, there is no standard definition of the term, points out a draft paper by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). The UN’s lead development agen…
Sri Lanka is a country affected by a variety of hazards including Drought, Flood, Mass Movement, Severe Storm or Tsunami. In order to make information on disaster risks in Sri Lanka more easily available, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) in partnership with UNDP, NGOs and GDFRR Labs launched the Sri Lanka Disaster Risk Information Platform (RiskInfo…
Last week at the UK’s Shelter Forum, international development charity Habitat for Humanity launched its disaster response catalogue which reviews the last 14 years of disaster recovery work.
It catalogues and analyses the charity’s responses to a broad sample of disasters, identifying key learning, challenges and practices for the future.
Mario Flore…
In the wake of the recent Queensland floods, a debate has emerged about how to avoid future flood related damage, reports The Telegraph. According to Chas Keys, an Honorary Associate of Risk Frontiers (Macquarie University) and author of Making Communities Safer in Times of Flood, "very little flood mapping was done", and urban development on floodplain…
Speaking at a training of trainers on capacity re-enforcement and institutional analysis for disaster risk reduction and management in agriculture FAO representative Mrs. Mariatou Njie Faal told the Point that the Sahel region has witnessed recurrent cycles of drought and floods and this repeated cyclical phenomenon has significantly eroded the resilien…
A Canadian construction company has donated 170 earthquake-resistant connectors for a building trades school that is being constructed in Haiti. The school is designed to be seismic-resistant, so it will function as a safe-zone as well, providing food, shelter and medical assistance in case of a natural disaster.
By Rob Young
As part of the sorely-needed aid package to help victims of Hurricane Sandy, Congress is also considering spending billions on ill-advised and environmentally damaging beach and coastal rebuilding projects that ignore the looming threats of rising seas and intensifying storms.
Next week, the U.S. Congress is expected to vote on the bulk o…