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Displaying 15 of about 79 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…
The goal of BCPR’s presence in UNDP Regional Service Centers (RSCs) is to ensure substantive advice on crisis prevention and recovery (CPR) issues to all UNDP work streams. Specifically, the BCPR/RSC component provides substantive partnerships support and performs cross-practice integration and coordination functions strengthening BCPR support to UNDP C…
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is seeking a talented professional for the role of Community Development Specialist. The Community Development Specialist plays a key role in developing and implementing community engagement and support strategies, open and transparent accountability and feedback mechanisms, developing community capacity, and de…
What can communities do for themselves and how can they maintain basic functions and structures during a disaster and then recover after the event is the focus of the workshop on Communities Resilience During and After Disasters organised by the EU-funded PPRD South Programme in Madrid from 12 to 15 September 2011.
More than 40 experts working in the N…
This event will address the relationship between climate change and the increase of disasters in Brazil; aspects of disaster management to be discussed are: prevention, response, reconstruction. It will also develop proposals for the Civil Defence and Risk Reduction Disaster System.
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…
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - press release
The leaders of the world’s largest humanitarian organization are on their way to earthquake-devastated Haiti as part of a massive disaster response and recovery operation.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) President Tadateru Ko…
2011 has been a year of transition for Haiti. Humanitarian aid and the commitment of NGOs in Haiti continued all along the last 12 months, but the 12 January 2010 earthquake has left deep marks on the country. On top of these scars, new strains occurred with the cholera epidemic as soon as October 2010, and the phase of political transition, which ended…
Background
COVID-19 that is continuing to cause human tragedy, social upheaval and economic turmoil across the globe can be considered as a once-in-a-century ecological security crisis that creates an urgent need for an in-depth reflection on the relationship between human beings and nature. But striking a balance between the two will not be possible u…
Purpose
In response to the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the American Red Cross is developing an Integrated Neighborhood Reconstruction and Recovery Program to support local urban development in Carrefour Feuilles, Port au Prince. The program goal is to enhance community and household resiliency through sustainable and integrated interventions that p…
Background
To strengthen Oxfam's humanitarian role in Haiti (priority 1 country) by developing a humanitarian strategy to address both short and long term needs, managing emergency response and early recovery projects/programmes and to assess and build capacity of Oxfam and partner staff, in line with regional and organisational objectives.
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An opportunity for an experienced senior manager and leader to head the operational programme in Haiti. Tearfund is looking for a Programme Director with proven experience of relief work, and strong leadership and management skills in order to effectively lead the start up and implementation of the new Disaster Management (DM) programme in accordance wi…
The Canadian Red Cross Society (CRCS), a non-profit, humanitarian organization dedicated to helping Canadians, as well as the most vulnerable throughout the world, is currently seeking a Recovery Program Coordinator to lead the CRCS recovery response in Haiti.
Reporting to the Haiti Country Representative, the Recovery Program Coordinator will be respo…
Job purpose
To provide high quality technical assistance to the various aspects of the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) efforts of Concern Haiti through applying internationally accepted DRR standards and best practices
Main duties & responsibilities
- Advise on the implementation of the DIPECHO funded DRR intervention in urban Port au Prince and o…
Tracking Code: 4796
Save the Children US seeks a Project Manager to be responsible for the overall planning, management, coordinating and execution of the project. S/he will be responsible for liaison with ECHO partners and other stakeholders, finance control, staff supervision, coordination and linkage with networks and Government bodies. Under the g…