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Displaying 120 of about 160 resultsBy Eleala Avanitele, Tuvalu Red Cross
Some of the most vulnerable households in Tuvalu are now better prepared for cyclones, droughts and other disasters thanks to a resilience pilot project run by Tuvalu Red Cross and its partners.
The Finnish-Pacific (FINPAC) project was funded by the Government of Finland and coordinated through the Secretariat of…
This publication reports on the discussions and outcomes from the Second India Disaster Management Congress organized by National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), India and held on 4-6 November, 2009 in New Delhi. The report presents a total of 26 technical sessions organized around 13 thematic clusters, including sessions on:
-- Earthquake
-- M…
This handbook was produced for journalists to shun bad reporting on pastoralism with pastoralists being potrayed either as victims or noble warriors, but instead potray them as one of the most productive economic groups in the region. It asserts that increased weather extremes and shorter times to prepare between droughts puts pastoralists on the front…
PWS-22; WMO/TD No. 1560:
This document provides guidelines on international collaboration in the warning process for severe weather threats and extreme conditions (heat wave, cold wave, drought, storm surge, avalanches, flooding.) It discusses general principles regarding cross-border exchange of warnings, and includes the role of the media in raising…
This report is one of the main outputs from UNDP DDC's activities of the Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management Peer Assistance Network (AADP), funded by the Government of Japan, in 2011. It reviews the current drought risk management (DRM) institutional and programmatic landscape in Africa and Asia and mapped out some of the main DRM capacity gaps and gap…
Geneva (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) - Experts in disaster risk reduction today urged that science and technology be applied more effectively to disaster management policy and practice.
Their discussions, organized by the UNISDR Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, were part of the fourth session of the Global Platform for Dis…
NNA - Geneva - In a world enduring a growing threat of disasters, Lebanon has joined international powers once again to help mitigate the repercussions of future calamities, at the Fourth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, currently holding its preliminary sessions at the Geneva International Conference Center (CICG) in preparat…
Le ministre chargé des Affaires générales et de la gouvernance du Maroc, Najib Boulif, a dévoilé une nouvelle stratégie mettant l’accent sur la résilience aux catastrophes naturelles à l’occasion de la quatrième conférence sur les désastres et les risques, tenue à Davos du 26 au 30 août.
L'article du Matin résume les facteurs de force et de faiblesse d…
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), in collaboration with the local government service, held a press conference at the conference hall of the ministry of information and national orientation to launch the International day for disaster reduction 2010 campaign last week.
The theme for this year is Making cities resilient: "my city is…
"Disaster preparedness saves lives" stated Michelle Labeeu, Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the EU delegation to Cambodia.
"The European Union significantly contributes to global disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation efforts by supporting communities to better prepare themselves against natural disasters, " she said.
Kigali - Drought is likely to return to Somalia and other parts of the Horn of Africa over the next three months, say regional climate scientists meeting in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. The forecast comes just weeks after the UN declared the Somali “famine” over.
“There is a high probability of drought returning to the Greater Horn of Africa…Poor rains…
Iloilo City - July is National Disaster Consciousness Month, and efforts of concerned agencies toward the security and welfare of the people nationwide are solidified through Executive Order No. 137.
Concerned about the occurrence of fortuitous events such as typhoon, flood, earthquake, tornado, landslide, volcanic eruption, tsunamis and drought, the g…
A workshop was organised by the Pakistan Meteorological Department with World Food Programme (WFP) and Sustainable Land Management Project (SLMP) in Pakistan on 3 November which focused on the 'Role of media for strengthening an early warning system for floods and droughts' according to the News International. The participants considered that early warn…
Noelina Nabwile
Nairobi, Kenya - As Kenya prepares for the first general elections in 2012 under the new Constitution, the media’s focus has been on politics. While this is important, the media should not forget other critical and pressing issues that need urgent attention. As agenda setters and opinion shapers, the media should not be swayed by politi…
By Kim Stephens
New technologies such as social media and mobile interactive applications are starting to have an impact in the field of emergency management. The impact is not occurring in just the response phase, as has been widely reported, but also during the preparedness, mitigation and even the recovery phase as well. Here are a few recent exampl…