Search
Results for " "
Displaying 87 of about 87 resultsA consultation with civil protection authorities and local authorities from Mediterranean countries (Europe and Arab States region) on the post-2015 framework on disaster risk reduction (HFA2) took place at the workshop on “Increasing disaster resilience in urban setting” organized by the Euromed Programme on Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Nat…
This first conference of its kind in the Sultanate will be attended by renowned speakers and industry experts. Among the local and international speakers at the conference will be Her Highness Sayyida Tania bint Shabib Al Said, President - Environment Society of Oman; Jeffrey Lagomarsino, Deputy Secretary-General at Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Or…
The IOC UNESCO project on “Communicating the effects of the 1945 Makran tsunami to increase awareness and preparedness of tsunami hazards in the Makran region” is currently underway with funding from the ESCAP administered Trust Fund on Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian Countries. The project has been und…
This study provides an overview on disasters and conflicts in 57 Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries during the last four decades, including a review of disaster risk reduction strategies from The Yokohama Strategy to the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA) an…
The focus of this week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 38) is the role of the individual in relation to crises and the benefits of public involvement in emergency planning. We discuss how recovery reinstates preparedness, while renewal enhances resilience and consider how Local Resilience Capability can be understood, sustained and enhanced by local govern…
The Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Co-operation (IOR-ARC) vowed greater co-operation in addressing a number of regional challenges, notably piracy and disasters — natural and human-related — reports the Oman Daily Observer. The Rim community resolved to support efforts in building the preparedness of member states in dealing with disasters in…
On Thursday, the Arab League’s Economic and Social Council discussed the report titled "Natural Hazards, Unnatural Disasters: the Economics of Effective Prevention," which asserts that the Middle East and North Africa region will become more vulnerable to floods, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and other natural disasters that can impede development,…
This book formed an integral part of the 2003 International Year of Freshwater. It provides a comprehensive view of water projects and initiatives supported by the United Nations which gave all agencies and organisations dedicated to protecting global water resources a chance to commit publicly to improving the world’s water supplies.
It creates a foru…
Organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme Regional Office for Arab Cities (UN-HABITAT Kuwait Office) and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Regional Office for Arab States (UNISDR Cairo Office), Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI), United Nations Development Programme Kuwait Office (UNDP Kuw…
Coastal communities of the North West Indian Ocean are exposed to a largely unknown tsunami threat. The Makran Trench lies less than one hundred kilometers off the coast of Pakistan and Iran. This subduction zone between the Arabian and Eurasian Plate can potentially generate devastating earthquakes, and tsunamis which could reach the coastline in less…
This paper synthesizes the consultations held at the regional, national and local levels throughout the Arab region on the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction, the successor of the Hyogo Framework for Action. This report include the outcomes of various consultations held in the Arab region between 2012 and 2014, including during the First Ar…
Twenty-four countries bordering the Indian Ocean will engage in Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2018 (IOWave18), a large-scale tsunami exercise based on two scenarios that will be enacted on the 4th and 5th September respectively.
The scenario to be tested on 4 September will simulate a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the southern coast of Islamic Republi…