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Displaying 15 of about 36 resultsDates: 30 – 31 January 2022
Venue: InterContinental Citystars Hotel, Cairo
Organizers: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States / Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center, Crisis Mangement and DRR Sector
Event Language: Arabic
Within the framework of cooperation between the Egypt…
This strategy report offers a policy-focused analysis of the world we will face once the pandemic has passed. At a time when all assumptions about the shape of Australian society and the broader global order are being challenged, there is a need to take stock of likely future directions.
The report analyses 26 key topics, countries and themes, ranging…
This document reports on the network's successes in disaster preparedness, response and recovery; health promotion; food security; development; gender equality; promotion of humanitarian principles and values; and its efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination suffered by vulnerable groups across the world. It recalls the prioritization of disaster pre…
Summary
While the COVID-19 pandemic has massively disrupted lives and livelihoods, it also provides a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a safer, more resilient world able to adapt to the threat of climate change and other perils. Within COVID-19 recovery and economic stimulus packages there will be opportunities to address multiple risks, inclu…
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - Cities across the globe pledged on Monday to use their post-pandemic recovery plans to bolster ways to adapt to the growing risks posed by climate change.
The 1000 Cities Adapt Now initiative, launched by several non-governmental organizations and a U.N. agency, will initially start operating in 100 urban areas but…
By Samuel Munzele Maimbo and Stefan Emblad
For the world’s poorest people, COVID-19 has brought an unparalleled social and economic shock. And for those living in countries affected by fragility and conflict, the challenge is compounded : they are in the crosshairs of a pandemic that has increased poverty, while also still contending with the unde…
CAIRO, 23 November 2011 – The League of Arab States (LAS) and UNISDR move one step closer to a plan of action on disaster risk reduction for the Arab region. The action plan is expected to be endorsed at the first-ever Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab region planned for 2012.
Holding a series of consultations with disaster risk…
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is experiencing a protracted and divergent recovery. The latest budget increases allocated to environmentally positive recovery measures amount to only 21 percent of the total sums allocated to COVID-19 economic recovery. This means that 79 percent of this funding fails to consider environmental dim…
Dates: 9-10 February, 2022
Location: Online / Seoul, South Korea
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Under the theme “A human-centred future: Partnership for a smarter, greener and more inclusive ASEAN”, the Seoul Ministerial Conference will serve as an opportunity for Ministers and high-level representatives from Southeast Asian countries and OECD Members to ide…
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic crisis are posing immense challenges with far reaching impacts across Asia. The period of economic rebuilding after the crisis provides an opportunity to build back better to create more resilient economies.
Join some of Asia’s leading experts and decision makers as they share insights into th…
This book is intended to provide an overview of the concept of ecosystem approach to disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR), natural resource management and disaster linkages, incorporating Eco-DRR concepts in various phases of disaster management, including post disaster recovery in wide range of human and natural environmental settings. The case studies co…
KOBE – The Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE) is a network of private sector entities working in partnership with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) to substantially reduce disaster mortality based on risk-informed investments and resilient capital assets. Thus, all ARISE member companies as…
Rangu Debi, 70, lives on Monpura, an isolated island of Bhola district in Bangladesh, surrounded by Meghna River. A widow with six children, she has seen many cyclones and floods in her lifetime, some of them catastrophic. Fifty years ago, Cyclone Bhola’s flood waters took everything from her, including one of her daughters. Since then she has been livi…
The Government will launch a new Pandemic Preparedness Partnership (PPP) to save lives from future diseases and prevent another global pandemic.
International Pandemic Preparedness Partnership (PPP) will support PM’s target to slash the time to develop vaccines for new diseases to 100 days
Partnership will be chaired by UK Chief Scientific Adviser…
In the face of multiple global crises, debt-for-climate swaps are being widely discussed as an instrument to manage mounting public debts, climate change challenges and Covid-19 recovery. Belize is a small island developing state in the Caribbean region facing these challenges. The Government of Belize has requested the Commonwealth Secretariat to provi…