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Displaying 15 of about 160 resultsGeneva – The international community must “risk proof” development because disasters are taking a heavy toll on rich and poor countries as well as outpacing their ability to respond, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates today, at the foremost gathering of stakeholders on reducing disaster risk which opened this afternoon in Geneva…
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…
ARUSHA, 12 February 2013 - For the last three weeks, the Maputo-based weekly newspaper "Domingo" has featured the Mozambique floods on its front page.
Domingo editor, Jorge Ernesto Rungo, was today able to give journalists from across Africa an insight into the challenges of covering one of the largest disasters to hit the country since the floods of 2…
One international human settlements and climate change expert (IE) (home based) and one international spatial planning expert (Viet Nam and home based)
Background
Viet Nam is one of the countries most affected by climate change, affecting many sectors and regions, and presenting a challenge to human development. Effects such as sea level rise and assoc…
A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…
El Atlas de riesgo de Colombia ha sido elaborado por la Unidad Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres, entidad líder en el país en la temática de gestión del riesgo, e INGENIAR: Risk Intelligence. Este producto surge ante la necesidad de avanzar en el conocimiento del riesgo a nivel nacional y regional, teniendo en cuenta que la misión de la entida…
The conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
This is the third edition of the Suffering in Silence report. The aim of this report is to highlight those humanitarian crises in 2018 that, though large, have received little public attention. In the final section, it also addresses the question of how to ensure better coverage, outlining eight steps to help shine a light on forgotten crises.
Using th…
This compilation of poems and slogans written in Hindi and English by high school students provides strong message on the importance of protecting the environment in order to reduce the risk of disasters and achieve sustainable development. Its aim is to raise public awareness about disaster risks related to natural hazards, such as earthquake, flood, d…
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Ce document présente les réalisations de l’approche de la Direction Générale de la Protection Civile (DGPC) Malienne en matière de gestion des urgences et catastrophes en 2012, 3 années après la mise en œuvre du projet PRECARICA viant à renforcer les capacités de la DGPC, des structures étatiques et des collectivités locales à mieux préven…
With less than a year before its scheduled completion, activities are on track for the 30-month Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Project which got underway in October 2010, reports the Jamaica Observer. Public awareness and community-based disaster risk management have been a particular focus.
According to the report, the $515-mill…
This case study focuses on multi-pronged advocacy efforts in Kenya at the national, county and community levels that brought together interested stakeholders in advancing local action to counter and mitigate the negative impacts of three prioritised disaster threats: drought, deforestation and insecurity. The case study demonstrates the impact of c…
Press release
12 months ago Governments and NGOs raced to East Africa to prevent a humanitarian disaster caused by the worst drought in 60 years.
They responded to dire warnings that 12 million people were threatened by malnutrition after rain had failed to arrive for the second year in a row.
Livestock was dying, crops were failing and a crisis was…
OCHA and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new animation video highlighting the urgent need to invest more in preparing for and preventing natural disasters, which have claimed more than 1 million lives since 2000.
The video, Act Now, Save Later, is funded by OCHA and UNDP and produced by Ataboy. It highlights that every dollar of fo…