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Displaying 30 of about 116 resultsVICTORIA, Seychelles, 2 October 2016 – A multinational tsunami drill in the Indian Ocean has taught Seychelles key lessons about how to save lives in the event that a potentially deadly wave strikes in the future, according to senior officials in the island nation.
Mr. Paul Labaleine, Director of Seychelles’ Division of Risk and Disaster Management, sa…
NEW YORK, 20 September 2016 – Governments at the UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants have adopted a landmark declaration that underlines the role of environmental degradation, climate change and disasters alongside conflict as drivers of the ongoing crisis.
The “New York Declaration” contains ambitious commitments to find durable solutions and coordinat…
GENEVA, 28 April 2016 - One of the world’s most ambitious low-cost housing reconstruction programmes ever to be undertaken in a seismic zone is due to get underway this week following first anniversary of the 25 April Nepal earthquake.
Nepal’s new Reconstruction Authority and its partners are embarking on a programme to provide over 500,000 low-c…
During a symposium held at Tohoku University on the sidelines of the third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon gave an account of his encounter with high school students in Fukushima Prefecture following the terrible tragedy, four years ago.
While he expected the students to request material help,…
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, 16 January 2017 – Seven years on from the devastating earthquake in Haiti, countries from across the Caribbean are working hard to reduce the risks posed by seismic threats, as part of their wider drive towards sustainable development.
The magnitude-7.0 quake of 12 January, 2010, claimed around 150,000 lives and affected over thre…
Today marked National Disaster Reduction day in Japan, an annual event which commemorates the Great Kanto Earthquake which devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923. This year’s event, however, is particularly poignant, being the first since the 11 March Great East Japan Earthquake.
Activities were carried out all over the country, as in previous…
In addition to persistent conflict, Indonesia faces a range of natural hazards including tropical flooding, earthquakes and drought. Over the last three years, some 255,000 people have lost their lives to natural disasters and conflict. A further 1.4 million people have been displaced from their homes. When disaster strikes, you will help OxFam to reduc…
Collection of photos from the Ninth National Earthquake and Safety Drill, organized by the International Institute of Earthquake and Engineering (IIEES) on November 29, 2007. This drill has been conducted since 1966 and now involves 14.5 million students in more than 124,000 schools. All students in Iran perform the earthquake drill. The Safety Drill pr…
About the Course
This course is designed to bring together key skills to mainstream inclusion into organisations and the wider humanitarian sector. The course builds capacity through building training skills on Sphere and increasing current knowledge on Gender, Age and Disability and supports understanding of ADCAP Minimum Standards for Age and Disabil…
Background
Alliance2015 is a partnership of seven like-minded European non-government organizations working in the field of development cooperation. The Alliance members are Cesvi from Italy, Concern Worldwide from Ireland, Welthungerhilfe (WHH) from Germany, Hivos from the Netherlands, IBIS from Denmark, People in Need (PIN) from the Czech Republic a…
LocationBhavnagar, India.DegreePG DiplomaDescriptionThis diploma is targeting to those who are willing to develop their skill in managing crises in social as well as socio technical sector. The NGOs and Government sector like State and local self government and rural development agencies may be looking for the persons having specialisation with disaster…
The Haiti case study addresses four key themes: the impact of the earthquake and the subsequent cholera epidemic on Haiti's health system; security community participation in health system recovery and reconstruction; coordination mechanisms that facilitated or directed the security community's involvement; and the information generating and sharing mec…
This document highlights the impact of volunteers in times of crisis, which fosters a greater understanding of the role of volunteers in the humanitarian field and in disaster risk reduction. Citing the Hyogo Framework for Action, which explicitly recognizes the added value and contribution of volunteerism to disaster risk management, it features volunt…
This report, published two weeks after the Great East Japan (Tohoku-Kanto) earthquake and tsunami, provides a synthesis of certain existing data and a basic situation analysis of the situation. It considers the major challenge posed to the disaster risk reduction community by: (i) the earthquake; (ii) the tsunami; (ii) the ongoing nuclear emergency; and…
By Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez and Elif Ayhan
Across the globe, more than 20 million children from conflict-affected countries are out of school. Missing out on schooling opportunities severely compromises the future of displaced individuals, who have left everything behind to escape conflict and violence.
Take Syrian refugees in Turkey, th…