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Displaying 11 of about 11 resultsGENEVA, 1 February 2012 - An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.”
Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthqua…
This Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) report examines how natural catastrophe, pandemic outbreak, terrorism and cyber risk could potentially affect megacities in future and provides insight into the different ways in which the insurance industry will be impacted.
This paper demonstrates that (p. 16):
in the context of today’s and…
BANGKOK - The COVID-19 pandemic poses unique challenges in response and recovery. Governments are trying to manage the shock in the face of existing societal threats like poverty and inequality. Nevertheless, the COVID-19 recovery process has the potential to be a transformational event for many countries. The road to recovery offers cou…
GENEVA, 17 April 2013 - Outer space isn't a place organizations usually think of when looking to build resilience and reduce disaster risks. Yet, this is exactly where participants' minds were when experts were invited by UNISDR and the UN's Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) to discuss the incorporation of space technology into the post-2015 disas…
This brief distils best data practice recommendations through consideration of key issues involved in the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response in resource-constrained urban contexts. The authors draw lessons from how data-enabled technologies were used in urban COVID-19 response, a…
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GOAL has been in Haiti for over 2 years and continues to support communities to recover from the 2012 Earthquake and Cholera outbreaks. The programme will be focused on recovery from these twin emergencies and also begin developing a development programme. The programme has three core sectors. Community Development, Economic Development and…
LocationBad Neuenahr-AhrweilerDegreeMaster of disaster management and risk governanceDescriptionGlobally effective processes such as environmental change or the increasing dependence on critical infrastructure are closely interlinked in multiple ways. Hazards, for instance floods, pandemics, or technical failures are considered as the triggers of losses…
This document brings together messages from donors, INGOs, advocacy groups and research organisations, contributing a concise article indicating the failures and successes they have observed over this first year of disaster response, and their opinions on what must be done to achieve holistic and sustainable recovery, including reflections related to th…
The Africa Union Commission will convene a regional workshop for the East Africa region in collaboration with the East African Community (EAC) and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) in Arusha. The Workshop aims to accelerate action in the implementation of the Africa Regional Strategy on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and its P…
This webinar is targeted for local government DRR professionals and experts from related fields in the Asia-Pacific region. The two sessions are as follows:
Nov. 18 - Addressing emergning challenges of disasters in the Asia-Pacific region
Nov. 25 - Planning the new normal with COVID-19 with DRR
Both sessions will begin at 13:00 Japan Standard Time an…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…