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Displaying 15 of about 86 resultsGENEVA, 11 April 2012 - Following a massive earthquake earlier today in the Indian Ocean and the threat of a tsunami, Indonesian President and UNISDR Global Disaster Risk Reduction Champion, Susilo Bambang Yudhyono, told the press, "Our early warning system is working well". There were no tsunamis in Banda Aceh or other places which were hard hit by the…
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ADB's Managing Water in Asia's River Basins: Charting Progress and Facilitating Investment project aims to support river basin organizations (RBOs) in preparing roadmaps for long-term integrated river basin investment programs. It targets five selected river basins where ADB and other funding agencies will invest in river basin management fo…
The Symposium is being organized by the GEO Secretariat with the support of the governments of Indonesia and Japan. Its goal is to exchange information on, and enhance common understanding of, GEOSS, the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. The theme of the Symposium is "Towards a Global Earth Observation System of Systems that supports the socie…
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Mercy Corps Indonesia implements a series of integrated programs in urban Jakarta, Java, throughout Sumatra, and Maluku, in the sectors of nutrition and health, livelihoods/food security, access to financial services, water and sanitation, community development, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Cross-c…
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This chapter introduces the importance of integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk management principles in the water supply sector. It demonstrates why technical capacity and funding resources in this area should be enhanced to reduce risk. Indonesia’s location in a very active seismic zone naturally exposes it to significant geophysical…
This paper addresses a need for a paradigm shift towards more proactive and adaptive drought management across South-East Asia. The report provides the evidence base for these interventions, including the recently adopted ASEAN Declaration on the Strengthening of Adaptation to Drought.
The report presents three policy tracks: i) reduce and prevent; ii)…
This publication explores the contributions of science and technology in Asia. The first part evaluates the advancement of the science and technology in disaster risk reduction in 11 countries.
The second part of the report features 28 case studies and good practices on applying science and technology in different field of disaster risk reduction…
This report presents the results from a survey conducted in December 2015 by WFP in Eastern Indonesia to assess the impacts of drought related to El Niño on household food security, water access, agriculture, and livelihoods. It also identifies the most impacted populations in terms of geography and livelihoods and provides recommendations to the Govern…
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This paper calls upon the international community to commit to an effective international framework to help poor people adapt to climate change and to allow development to continue.
It look forward to Copenhagen and addresses the forthcoming UN High Level Event on climate change in New York and subsequent meeting of the G20…
This newsletter outlines RDI activities from January to March 2015 with a profile of its lecture series in 2015 on disaster risk financing, cultural heritage focus on disaster risk management, and water conservation.
RDI further highlights an enhancement to their resilience network, a new partnership with the Environmental Engineering Department of the…
"Improving water resources management and services will be critical to better protect Indonesian people against droughts in the future," warned Hamong Santoso from the People’s Coalition for the Right to Water (KRuHA), while the government is preparing Rp 1.7 trillion (US$197.2 million) to cope with the impacts of the droughts, which have resulted from…
Fujitsu Limited and PT. Fujitsu Indonesia today announced that they have built a river information system that incorporates augmented reality (AR) technology for Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Fujitsu built the system at the request of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Indonesia Office, and together with the North Sulawesi provi…
This study aims to analyze the development of deforestation and flood events in the Lasolo watershed and to investigate deforestation proclivity. Flood often occurs triggered by the failure of the system in the hydrological cycle such as deforestation in the nearby watershed upstream. Analysis of flood handling in a watershed area requires spatial and t…
The overall objective of this symposium is to discuss innovative and feasible approaches to evaluate the value of improved urban water environments. Impacts of global change, such as climate and land use change, on urban water pollution will be a major area of focus. Researchers and experts will discuss various aspects of what constitutes “value”, such…