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Displaying 15 of about 221 resultsGENEVA, 1 February 2012 - An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.”
Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthqua…
DAVOS, 27 August 2014 - The Chilean town of Peňaflor is celebrating this week. A local NGO born out of the 2010 earthquake and tsunami has scooped the prestigious Risk Award at the 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference in Davos, Switzerland, which ends tomorrow.
The Chilean NGO Inclusiva was among 77 organizations from 44 countries which…
Delegate, Senior Disaster Risk Reduction
“The American Red Cross International Services Department (ISD) seeks to prevent and alleviate human suffering around the world by responding to disasters, building safer, more resilient communities, and educating future humanitarians. In the coming years the American Red Cross will deepen and expand its program…
Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. non-governmental organisation, dedicated to excellence in the field of first aid, ambulance service, social service programmes and other projects in the medical and social field. The Federal Headquarters are based in Berlin, Germany.
Johanniter International Assistance is the department for development co-operation and eme…
Summary
In response to the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the American Red Cross seeks an experienced Country Representative to develop and carry out the objectives of the American Red Cross relief, recovery and mitigation framework in Haiti. ARC staff is responsible for programming in disaster management, shelter, water and sanitation, livelihood, co…
An experienced engineer is required with proven overseas experience in the practical design and implementation of construction and shelter projects to provide expertise to Tearfund’s Disaster Management reconstruction work in Haiti.
The position will provide structural engineering advice and oversight to construction projects in the form of design, rev…
Build Change has ongoing post-earthquake housing reconstruction programs in West Sumatra, Indonesia and Sichuan, China. So far, Build Change has improved the design and/or construction of over 6,400 houses, trained nearly 950 builders and over 1,000 technical high school students, engineers, and government officials in safe construction techniques. Buil…
The Purpose of the Workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information relating to the improvement of current building design and construction practices in the United States and Japan. The special focus of this Workshop will be on issues relating to the performance of buildings and other structures in severe earthquakes, including t…
The Context
On November 8, 2011, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, noted that China “experienced more major reported disasters” in 2010 than any other country. They included successions of severe droughts and dust storms in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi,…
Study tour destinations: New York City, USA; Tokyo, Japan; Sendai, Japan; and Chengdu, China
The 2013 Disaster Management and Resiliency Journalism Fellowships program will introduce participating journalists to a broad range of disaster management and recovery activities in the United States, Japan and China as well as post-disaster challenges to poli…
Over the years the need has surfaced for a more Caribbean focused conference on all possible disaster hazards. This conference seeks to bring together government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector for information exchange, dialogue and development of methods and practice to reduce the harmful impacts of hazards and disasters in the Cari…
Two Western Washington University faculty members who carried out research in Haiti after it was devastated by an earthquake will report their findings Wednesday, March 17.
Scott Miles, director of Huxley College of the Environment's Resilience Institute, and Rebekah Green, institute associate director, will talk about disaster risk reduction in Haiti…
Este manual se ha realizado, por lo tanto, con el propósito de que sirva como una guía técnica idónea en donde se presentan alternativas de intervención o rehabilitación sísmica para disminuir la vulnerabilidad de las edificaciones existentes de adobe y tapia pisada y así disminuir la pérdida de vidas humanas en caso de presentarse un sismo. Esta guía n…
This guide first lays out the relevant building codes in force in Colombia for small and medium scale construction projects. Subsequent sections discuss factors affecting earthquake vulnerability of masonry structures and mitigation strategies, factors in earthquake resistant design including geo-engineering, structural design, construction materials, a…
Summary Statement of Responsibilities
In the post January 2010 earthquake recovery and development phase, the Canadian Red Cross (CRCS) has developed a multisector program that includes health, disaster management and risk reduction, organisational development and violence prevention.
The main objective of the CRCS disaster risk reduction in Haiti is to…