Search

Results for " "

Displaying 15 of about 263 results
News
Published on
GENEVA, 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…
Publication
Published on
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…
The overall aim of the training package is to increase awareness on natural hazards and disaster risk reduction (DRR) to key stakeholders with knowledge on disaster management to empower the actors to support their organizations in developing disaster resilient programs and projects. This training manual is for use in DRR training aimed at building the…
Publication
Published on
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Local Recovery and Preparedness for the Pandemic’. This issue brings together policy experts, researchers and practitioners from diverse fields to deliberate on the trajectory of local level recovery and preparedness aspects. The focus is on highlighting the needs and the best practices on local level reco…
Register here Time 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm IST About AIDMI organising an online roundtable titled “Global Recovery and Preparedness for the Pandemic”, Friday, November 18, 2022, 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm IST, focussing on the various recovery and preparedness concerns related to the pandemic across the world. Focussing on recovery is important because preli…
This annual report provides an overview of the 26 UNDP-Japan funded projects implemented in 20 countries across Africa totaling USD 40 million. The report covers projects that were approved in 2020, to be implemented from March 2020- March 2021, in addition to the No-Cost extension from prior year. The report covers projects across four thematic ar…
COVID-19 is not the first health crisis to affect Canada. Previous emergencies, like the Lac-Mégantic train tragedy in 2013, showed the importance of including the affected communities to promote better adherence to preventive measures and build resilient communities. Our research shows this is largely missing for COVID-19, with high costs on society as…
Dates: 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…
Date: 8 February 2022 Venue: Hybrid & Sofitel The Obelisk, Dubai, Dubai Expo 2020 Time: 0900-1700 UAE time,  0700-1500 SAT,   GMT+4; Organizers: The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Business Council, …
This month’s Manchester Briefing presents Part 2 of the important topics for recovery and renewal that have been covered over the last 18 months. Part 1 appeared in last month’s TMB Issue 44. This month the Briefing, which is put together by Alliance Manchester Business School and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, collates and summa…
This study identifies 20 key strategies, grouped according to the health systems functions, that have been found as enhancing health systems resilience in the face of COVID-19. This study is targeted at policy-makers and has two aims. First, it provides national policy-makers with evidence from other countries to assess their own responses to COVID-19 a…
News
Published on
JAMAICA – The Covid pandemic recovery provides a chance to implement green and sustainable economic and social policies, but it is far from certain that governments will seize the opportunity, a key international conference on disaster prevention was told. Addressing the Vll Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction the in Americas and the Car…
In this, the second in our three-part series of webinars we examine what is ‘meaningful recovery’ from Covid? A panel of subject matter experts from The International Emergency Managers Society (TIEMS), the UK Emergency Planning Society (EPS) and the Resilient Cities Network (RCN) will provide insights from around the globe as we examine three key que…
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19 is aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19, including government emergency planners and resilience officers. This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 41) examines Financial Technology (FinTech) and Digital Government as policy delivery tools during COVID-19 and how these tools may be…
Prevention, preparedness, early action, and response to disasters and crises are at the core of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). According to Mr. Jean Urbain Zoa, Secretary-General of the Cameroon Red Cross (CRC), one of the main challenges of the National Society is to be prepared for any emergency: “Better p…

Is this page useful?

Yes No Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).