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SENDAI, 24 October 2011 - Four student representatives from Kobe University, Bukkyo University and Tohuku University announced a ‘Youth Declaration’ during United Nations Day celebrations in Sendai City to highlight the commitment and active participation of youth in building disaster resilient communities.
The students said the dec…
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…
Earlier this year, 9.1 million people in Türkiye were directly affected by the devastating earthquakes that struck the country on 6 February 2023. The Turkish private sector immediately began playing a critical and massive role in the earthquake response, with businesses of all sizes identifying and deploying resources, expertise, equipment, goods,…
How a community recovers after a disaster like Hurricane Ian is often a “chicken and egg” question: Which returns first – businesses or households?
Businesses need employees and customers to be able to function. Households need jobs and the services businesses provide.
As an urban planning researcher who focuses on housing recovery after disasters, I…
According to China Daily, each city, county and village in Japan is devoted to building community disaster prevention organizations, Japanese disaster experts told Chinese reporters during their visit to earthquake-prone Niigata Prefecture on Oct 21. "We have learned from these disasters that it is especially important for the local residents, communiti…
The importance of reducing exposure to disasters took on a personal hue for the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström.
The envoy had been due to present the Secretary-General's Report on the Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to the UN General Assembly in the first w…
Referring to the March 11 Japanese triple disaster and humanitarian crisis, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency Director General Helena Lindberg raises the issue of 'complex megadisaster' as reminder of the extent of our own vulnerability. In her contribution to PublicService.co.uk, she highlights some of the important lessons drawn for these events, as…
As the Haiti operation moves from rescue to reconstruction, what major challenges can we expect to emerge? Duncan Green discusses on the Oxfam blog.
The Haiti operation is moving rapidly from rescue to reconstruction. What major challenges can we expect to emerge? What sort of policies have delivered results after previous earthquakes? One of the best…
A flexible workspace provider, Regus, says that many Australian businesses are not prepared enough in the face of disasters, reports ZDNet. "The research reveals that in spite of reports indicating the average incident can cost up to $US500,000, disaster recovery plans among Australian businesses is not as widespread as imagined, particularly when it co…
This year’s natural disasters have been an omnipresent and unwelcome theme impacting on tourism to Japan, New Zealand, Queensland and Thailand.
Long after the initial horror of a natural disaster, the effects are still felt. The second wave of problems for local people is economic as tourists hesitate to return.
The pleasure periphery
Global leisure…
Port-au-Prince — In her second visit to Haiti after the devastating January 2010 earthquake United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark said she was impressed by the visible progress seen in the capital Port-au-Prince two years after the devastating earthquake that rocked the country killing 200,000 people.
“I saw a huge dif…
The University of the Philippines Institute for Small-Scale Industries (UP ISSI) conducted the “E-HANDA Webinar: Helping MSMEs Build Forward Better” on 13 October 2021. The theme Build Forward Better captures the UP ISSI’s advocacy of promoting the sustainable recovery and resilience of the Philippine micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) sector. K…
The United Nations Development Programme is to provide technical assistance to help Sri Lankan small businesses better cope with disasters, reports EconomyNext. UNDP and the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka (FCCISL) have entered into a partnership to promote greater private sector engagement in the field of Disaster Risk Redu…
Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction - Ministerial Round Tables (AM & PM)
Sendai, Japan, 15 March — Building back better after earthquakes, cyclones and other destructive forces and international cooperation in reducing harm from future crises were the focus of high-level discussions today in Sendai, Japan, as the Third…
Five years on from the 2010 earthquake, Gideon Long revisits the city flattened by a tsunami to find out how a unique collaboration between local residents, businesses and government is driving Constitución’s recovery, reports the Guardian.
It is a poster child for the effectiveness of public-private partnership. According to the article, Arauco, a maj…