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Sixteen UN country teams in West and North Africa examine ways to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change into development frameworks
Geneva – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the ISDR secretariat at the United Nations (ISDR secretariat), and the United Nations…
UNISDR press release 2010/17
United Nations to release “Natural hazard fact sheets for Kenya” and draft “Training for Trainers” toolkit to strengthen disaster management in Kenya
Nairobi – On 25 to 26 August, the UNISDR Regional Office for Africa will hold a pilot workshop on “Training of Trainers” in the Rift Valley Province to test a toolkit to “tra…
Philippine Mayors Join Global Campaign to Make Cities Resilient
Bangkok, July 26, 2010 – Last week three new mayors from the Philippines became part of the World Disaster Reduction Campaign Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready, joining 60 other mayors from around the world already committed to the campaign.
As signatories to the campaign…
UNISDR is pleased to share its Management Response to the second external evaluation of the secretariat. The Management Response sets out the process and main activities to implement recommendations arising from the evaluation carried out by Dalberg Global Development Advisers. Initiated by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disa…
1. Background
In Africa the occurrence of disasters triggered by natural and human made hazards , the number of people affected and the associated economic losses are all rising. Africa’s share of total reported world disasters has increased over the past decades. Most of the disasters affecting Africa are caused by Hydro-meteorological hazards like…
Background
Cambodia’s agriculture remains a backbone for the livelihoods of four million Cambodians who depend on the sector. However, the dependence on rain-fed agriculture and reliance on a single rice cropping cycle makes this important sector extremely vulnerable to any changes in rainfall patterns and longer term changes in the climate. The imp…
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General Description of Programme:
GOAL has been operational in Malawi since 2002 and currently has programmes in HIV/AIDS, WASH, livelihoods, food security and disaster risk reduction.
GOAL Malawi’s head office is in Lilongwe, with a large Field Office in Nsanje in the extreme south of Malawi. This office coordinates…
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Appel à manifestation d’intérêt : n° 001/SEEE/PNUD/SAP/2010
1. Le Secrétariat d’Etat auprès du Ministère de l’Energie, des Mines, de l’Eau et de l’Environnement chargé de l’Eau et de l’Environnement (SEEE), en collaboration avec le PNUD est en cours de mettre en oeuvre le projet « Adaptation aux changements climatiques au Maroc: pour des O…
This workshop offers participants the opportunity to compare and to apply leading-edge solutions that will help clients, communities, and regions manage their natural resources during change. These design principles will be viewed from the regional, community, and building scales. They will be applied to actual projects, brought by the participants, and…
Objective
The conference will review technical challenges faced by Member States, stakeholder organisations and scientists, while developing the first River Basin Management Plan under the Water Framework Directive (WFD). It will focus on aspects of integration, looking at the way cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary co-operation has developed, and h…
Speakers: Bridget Scanlon, Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin; Laurent Longuevergne, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
The Earth Institute's Columbia Water Center Spring Seminar Series presents…
Over 40% of the population in the horn of Africa lives in drought prone arid and semi arid areas. Other widespread challenges in the continent such as; floods, conflict, HIVAIDS, disease epidemics, and environmental degradation continue to impoverish the different communities.
The continuous destruction of the economy and the gains realized from many…
This initiative builds on the successes of the WMO/GWP associated programme on flood management which over the last 10 years has championed the integrated approach to flood management. The lessons learned and the experiences of this joint programme will inform the development of a proposed new programme on integrated drought management. Potential partne…
Practical experience and learning from a community-based adaptation project in Bangladesh:
This report communicates the local, practical experiences and learning from an action research project on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (CCA-DRR), aimed at facilitating local people's analysis of their own vulnerability towards climate ch…
Ensuring the next drought will not cause another humanitarian crisis:
This briefing note addresses the need for the fight against hunger and malnutrition in the Sahel to be fought before, during and after crises. It calls for contingency planning to be systematically included into long-term policies and programmes and considers Disaster Risk Reduction…