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Displaying 15 of about 164 resultsGENEVA, 3 May 2013 - UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the European Union's newly announced strategy on adaptation to climate change and stated: "The adoption of this new strategy is a major incentive for European states to step up their efforts for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
Urban resilience is especially im…
There is now a successful solution to reduce vulnerability to droughts in South Asia by providing national authorities the maximum possible lead time to put mitigation strategies into place. A next generation of South Asia Drought Monitoring System (SADMS), developed by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in a close partnership with Indian C…
Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA)
Afghanistan is a landlocked country with an area of 652,864 sq Km (ref.syb 08-09). The climate is mostly dry with extremes of cold winters and hot summers. Nature’s destructive patterns routinely affect and wreak havoc in the country. Earthquakes are frequent in northern parts of the country an…
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,…
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…
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- Post number: 328908 (EMRO/11/FT396)
- Vacancy Notice No: EMRO/11/FT396
- Title: Emergency Coordinator Post No 328908
- Grade: P5
- Organization unit: EMCO Countries (EM_ACO), EM_AFG WHO Representative's Office, Afghanistan (EM_AFG)
- Assistant Regional Director (ARD), EM/EHA Emergency & Humanitarian Action
- The mission of WHO is the att…
This document describes FAO-Adapt, an organization-wide framework programme that provides general guidance and introduces principles as well as priority themes, actions and implementation support to FAO’s activities for climate change adaptation. The document consists of five main sections. Chapter 1 introduces the background and context of FAO-Adapt. C…
This report outlines status and trends of high mountain glaciers in relation to climate change, identifies challenges and knowledge gaps, and finally makes recommendations for adaptation, research and policy. It calls for accelerating research, monitoring and modelling of glaciers, snow and their role in water supplies; and highlights the vulnerability…
This point-by-point report of the UN Secretary-General on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration encompasses natural disasters in the "other priorities for global action". It calls for more determined efforts to address the loss of lives, livelihoods and infrastructure in order to avoid disasters to become an increasingly serious obstacle to t…
By Megan Rowling
London - Governments are failing to prevent hunger emergencies in developing nations, despite ample warning, because they see more political danger than reward in acting early to avert famine, a report from the Chatham House thinktank said on Friday.
To prevent further food crises like those that hit millions of people in the Horn and…
This compendium of research papers is based disaster risk reduction and understanding the nature, occurrence, and severity of threats, underlying causes of vulnerabilities and capacity of the populace in South and Southeast Asia. It addresses the new focus of disaster risk reduction at present is on vulnerability reduction and building resilient communi…
This document presents Uzbekistan’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as earthquake, landslide, flood and drought, and discusses institutional and legal framework for disaster management in the country. It also sets out key areas of focus such as ecological and technological disasters; disaster risk assessment and early warning; capacity developm…
This report presents country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as cyclone, flood, earthquake and drought, and describes governmental and institutional structures responsible for disaster management in Bangladesh.
The report discusses major accomplishments in disaster reduction during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDN…
By Megan Rowling
London - Alhaji Gimba Suleiman, a 72-year-old rice farmer from Ozahi in Nigeria's south-central Kogi State, lost his house in the huge floods that displaced 2 million people and affected a total of more than 7.7 million in the West African nation last year.
He's still living in temporary accommodation 15 km away, going back each day t…
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Dakar - Cette année, comme presque chaque année, des images de femmes et d'enfants affligés par la sécheresse défilent sur nos écrans : la sécheresse dans le Sahel, aggravée par les crises politiques et les conflits armés affecte cette année plus de 18 millions de personnes, non seulement au Sénégal, mais aussi au Mali, en Mauritanie, au…