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GENEVA, 10 November 2011 – Eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have agreed to tighten up on school safety while also integrating disaster risk reduction into the school curriculum, following high-level talks on education in Panama City.
Between 1970 and 2009, over 32,000 schools in South America were damaged or destro…
This National Climate Change and Health Action Plan (NCCHAP) is the end product of the join effort between the Kiribati Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) and the World Health Organization (WHO), and represents the health sector’s contribution towards climate change adaptation planning in Kiribati. Its purpose is to describe the specific hea…
UNICEF MENARO invites applications from experienced and well qualified disaster risk reduction (DRR) experts and organisations for inclusion in its Pool of DRR Experts for MENA.
Purpose & Objectives:
UNICEF MENA Country Offices are scaling up their DRR activities in particular within the education and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors,…
DescriptionThe Postgraduate Diploma in Emergency Management is designed for students who wish to broaden their knowledge in both disaster prevention and management. In its broadest sense, emergency management focuses on the organisation of communities to respond to disasters, to survive them, to rebuild social structures and infrastructure, and to susta…
The Context
On November 8, 2011, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, noted that China “experienced more major reported disasters” in 2010 than any other country. They included successions of severe droughts and dust storms in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi,…
The Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference will provide a forum to examine the issues surrounding natural and man-made hazards.
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) released a National Strategy for Disaster Resilience in February 2011. It agreed to adopt "a whole-of-nation resilience-based approach to disaster…
Details
- Post number: 328908 (EMRO/11/FT396)
- Vacancy Notice No: EMRO/11/FT396
- Title: Emergency Coordinator Post No 328908
- Grade: P5
- Organization unit: EMCO Countries (EM_ACO), EM_AFG WHO Representative's Office, Afghanistan (EM_AFG)
- Assistant Regional Director (ARD), EM/EHA Emergency & Humanitarian Action
- The mission of WHO is the att…
Vacancy number: NHQ16639
Summary
In response to the January 12 earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the American Red Cross (ARC) seeks a Deputy Country Representative to oversee and lead the development and implementation of ARC’s recovery program in Haiti.
To date, ARC continues to implement a large scale relief operation supporting internally displaced peo…
Purpose of Position
The successful candidate will play a key role, side by side with the regional programme coordinator, regional DM delegate, regional communications delegate and the regional finance and administration manager, as well as the heads of the IFRC delegations in Mongolia and DPRK, and the IFRC representative in Japan, in supporting the on…
Background
Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
Job Purpose
To lead Concern’s health programme in Sierra Leone and be responsible for overall implemen…
This document presents some recommendations of UNESCO's Executive Board for adoption as a resolution by the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly. It urges Member States to integrate all-hazard health emergency and disaster risk-management programmes (including disaster risk reduction) into national or sub-national health plans and institutionalize capacit…
The MDG Report 2011 highlights where progress is being made and where stronger efforts are urgently needed to meet each of the eight Goals. The report presents the latest statistics on each of the Goals, globally and regionally, collected through more than 25 UN and international agencies. This year's report shows that the world is on track to reducing…
The damage from yesterday's earthquake was minimal, however, the NZ Herald's Fran O'Sullivan questions why the latest national infrastructure plan does not emphasise more the need to ensure that the country's networked infrastructures and public buildings, such as schools and hospitals, can withstand the impact of a major earthquake.
En Uruguay varias instituciones realizarán una actividad relacionada al Día para la Reducción de Riesgos de Desastres en el Sector Salud. El acto es organizado por el Programa de Gestión de Riesgo del Ministerio de Salud Pública. En ese contexto, la actividad que tomará lugar el 23 de Agosto, tiene como principal objetivo generar una cultura global de r…
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will prepare guidelines for hospital safety and preparedness to deal with on-site emergencies in the wake of the recent fire accident at AMRI Hospital at Kolkata, which claimed more than 90 lives and raised many issues about hospital safety, according to The Hindu. The guidelines will cover fire and all…