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Displaying 15 of about 316 resultsGENEVA, 6 June 2013 - The Head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the emphasis placed on the links between poverty reduction and disaster risk reduction in the report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda which identifies climate change as the main obstacle in the way of ending extreme poverty.
Ms. W…
AMMAN, 18 March 2013 - UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlström met yesterday with senior government ministers of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan who briefed her on the challenge to disaster risk management in the resource-starved country as it seeks to meet the needs of an estimated 440,000 Syrian refugees.
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nasser Joudah, said he…
New research on early warning and early action for typhoons in Palau and drought in Tuvalu, published at the end of July by the Climate Centre, will help shape the Green Climate Fund programme enhancing climate resilience in five Pacific island nations, preparing the ground for new early action protocols.
The Community-based Early W…
The study captures the tryst of the Dalit and Adivasi communities that bear the brunt of historical descent/caste-based oppression, inequalities and discrimination with recurring droughts in the region. As climate change intensifies, the Dalits (or the Scheduled Castes) and Adivasis (or the Scheduled Tribes) with their women, children, ag…
Between 2000 and 2019, over 7,000 disasters were recorded worldwide, an 83% rise on the previous two decades. There was a 134% increase in the number of floods and a 232% rise in extreme temperature events. The number of people affected increased by 21% and the economic costs rose 82%. As far back as 2012, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climat…
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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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The Salween-Mekong basin is one of China’s most climatically, ecologically, and ethnically diverse regions and the headwaters of many of China’s major river systems. The impacts of changes in water supply and climate vary greatly depending on elevation, environmental conditions, and the socioeconomic situation of rural inhabitants. Floods an…
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…
Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio 1992, sustainable development has remained elusive for many African countries. Poverty is still a major challenge, as 41% of the Sub-Sahara African population (or roughly 300 million people) were living on one dollar a day or less in 2004.
Most countries on the…
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Save the Children Denmark (SCD) fights for children’s rights. Save the Children Denmark influences public opinion and support children at risk. Their vision is a world in which all children’s rights are fulfilled – a world that respects and values each child, a world where all children participate and have influence, a world where all childr…
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Objectifs
Evaluer la situation et les besoins des populations les plus vulnérables face aux risques de catastrophes naturelles, définir des axes d’intervention et élaborer une proposition de projet incluant une approche communautaire.
L’objectif spécifique de cette mission est de définir avec les Croix-Rouge cambodgienne (CRC) et lao (CRL)…
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Afghanaid is mandated to facilitate and support Afghan women, men and children in their fight against poverty, inequality and vulnerability through a range of interventions, most supporting grass-roots and local level capacity development, facilitating local development processes, and institution building with policy influencing and advocacy…
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…
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On 13 July 2010, the Government of Japan (GOJ) and the United Nations Development Programme Drylands Development Centre (UNDP-DDC) reached an agreement to implement the project entitled Africa-Asia Drought Risk Management (DRM) Peer Assistance Project (hereafter the Project) with financial support provided through the Japan-UNDP Partnership…
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UNICEF ESARO is looking for a consultant to manage a multi country disaster risk reduction (DRR) project covering four Horn of Africa (HoA) countries namely: Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Djibouti. This ECHO funded drought risk reduction project in the HoA mainly focuses on enhancing the regional knowledge management base through the documen…