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Displaying 15 of about 49 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…
Delegate, Senior Disaster Risk Reduction
“The American Red Cross International Services Department (ISD) seeks to prevent and alleviate human suffering around the world by responding to disasters, building safer, more resilient communities, and educating future humanitarians. In the coming years the American Red Cross will deepen and expand its program…
This is a one-day performance level training course that develops the participant's ability to apply coastal risk reduction and opportunity enhancement measures to coastal floodplain management. The course format is as follows:
• Modules 1 and 2 will introduce the course scenario, with Module 2 concluding with an activity requiring teams of learners…
The purpose of IDCE is to unite Public and Private Sector Professionals from around the world for discussions regarding policy, lessons learned, best practices, and forward thinking. As such, the IDCE Conference Program is the critical component to ensuring IDCE reaches goals and achieves objectives.
1700 Industry Professionals attended the inaugural e…
Responsibilities
Under the overall guidance of the Chief of Field Operations and Emergency the key responsibilities of the post will be as follows:
• Assessment of Data Collection and Information Management systems
- Assess the information management needs for UNICEF’s humanitarian, recovery and preparedness programmes.
- Identify gaps and opportuni…
This knowledge note addresses the transition between emergency FM to community FM radios in Japan following the devastation brought by the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which destroyed the regional disaster prevention emergency communication. It explains that temporary emergency FM stations broadcasted detailed local information so that ts…
Referring to the March 11 Japanese triple disaster and humanitarian crisis, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency Director General Helena Lindberg raises the issue of 'complex megadisaster' as reminder of the extent of our own vulnerability. In her contribution to PublicService.co.uk, she highlights some of the important lessons drawn for these events, as…
Press release
Release Number: 024
Atlanta – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that a grant of nearly $4.6 million will be awarded to the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program in support of its efforts to update flood risk information throughout the state.
FEMA will provide $4,591,847 in federal funds toward projects to improv…
RedOrbit reports that Earth-observing satellites were in the focus of discussions at the recent Understanding Risk Forum in Cape Town, South Africa. Space technology is widely used in risk mitigation and climate change adaption programs.
In collaboration with the World Bank, The European Space Agency has set up five pilot projects for urban risk assess…
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Bureau of Meteorology is closely monitoring post-tropical cyclone Sandy for what it tells about climate risks in Australia. “This is the sort of thing we're warning about increasing over time,” said Karl Braganza, manager of climate monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology's National Climate Centre in Melbourne…
Background
The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of more than 6,000 practitioners, students, teachers, staff from UN agencies, non-governmental organizations, donors, governments and universities who work together within a humanitarian and development framework to ensure all persons the right to quality…
Background
Under the guidance and supervision of the Programme Manager – Crisis Prevention and Recovery/Environment Team, and in close collaboration with the Chief Technical Advisor and the Instituto Nacional de Gestão de Calamidades (INGC), the Programme Officer is responsible for the implementation of the disaster risk reduction/recovery and Climate…
A comprehensive study of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies tsunami operation, June 2012:
This study documents IFRC’s response and recovery operation in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Over 4.8 million people benefited from a wide range of Red Cross Red Crescent support that included reconstruction of physical infrastructure such as homes…
This publication presents a narrative of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster, its aftermath, and the ensuing recovery process. It is based on messages of solidarity and understanding sent by students in ASPnet schools across the Asia-Pacific and intended to build hope and resilience among children and teenagers who witnessed one of the m…
by Tom Mitchell, Head of Climate Change, Environment and Forests, Overseas Development Institute, and Senior Advisor, CDKN
Under the leadership of the Mexican Presidency, disaster risk management featured on the ‘financing track’ of the G-20 discussions this week in Los Cabos, Mexico for the first time. Worries about record economic disaster losses in…