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Displaying 15 of about 255 resultsNEW YORK, 9 April 2013 - Early last Saturday morning, some 1,000 residents of the city of Hoboken in New Jersey, birthplace of the legendary crooner Frank Sinatra, came out in full force and high spirits to run a special race in aid of Hurricane Sandy disaster relief in both Hoboken and its sister city Port Maria in Jamaica.
"We are still recovering fr…
On September 18, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Dominica, bringing intense rainfall which caused flashfloods and landslides. Hurricane Maria was one of the most rapidly intensifying storms in recent history, intensifying to a category 5 hurricane.
The impacts of Hurricane Maria were severe for both the country’s economy as well as the human development of…
The present systematization carried out by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) compiles Good Practices in Post-disaster Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the aim of spreading and highlighting the work and recovery processes that are coming taking place in different countries of the region. This systematization compiles some goo…
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…
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…
Background
Prior to the earthquake of January 2010, UNDP Haiti was working in six main areas: Rule of Law and Security, Poverty Reduction, Democratic Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction, Early Recovery and Environment and Energy.
In responses to the devastating effects of the earthquake, UNDP Haiti will now be re-directing its efforts to respond to th…
Background
The strongest earthquake in Haiti in more than 200 years, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation on January 12, 2010 at 4.53 p.m. (local time). The earthquake led to approximately 220,000 casualties and more than 300,000 persons injured. The government has also estimated that more than 511,000 people hav…
Background
Prior to the earthquake of January 2010, UNDP Haiti was working in six main areas: Rule of Law and Security, Poverty Reduction, Democratic Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction, Early Recovery and Environment and Energy.
In responses to the devastating effects of the earthquake, UNDP Haiti will now be re-directing its efforts to respond to th…
The 5th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2014) will take place at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, from 30th October - 1st November 2014.
The theme of the conference is "Building Disaster Resilient Communities".
The focus of the conference builds on opportunities through science and tec…
This is a one-day performance level training course that develops the participant's ability to apply coastal risk reduction and opportunity enhancement measures to coastal floodplain management. The course format is as follows:
• Modules 1 and 2 will introduce the course scenario, with Module 2 concluding with an activity requiring teams of learners…
This document presents the functioning of Haiti’s government agencies responsible for disaster risk management and recovery. It describes the planning process and measures to be taken related to logistics, environment protection, security, evacuation, fire fighting, health services, reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Report of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs
This report contains the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs of the House of Commons of Canada's Parliament. It reports on the efforts of the Committee to study the response to and long-term impacts of wildfires in First Nation communities duri…
This report of the commission describes how the state of Texas responded to the disaster, and how Texans began the long road to recovery.
The report is the product of months of effort by the commission and its many partners, based on hundreds of hours of interviews and after-action reports. It provides a detailed account of the storm a…
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…