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Displaying 15 of about 69 resultsAMMAN, 18 March 2013 - UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlström met yesterday with senior government ministers of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan who briefed her on the challenge to disaster risk management in the resource-starved country as it seeks to meet the needs of an estimated 440,000 Syrian refugees.
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Nasser Joudah, said he…
ARUSHA, 13 February 2013 - Speaking at the opening of the 4th Africa Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Tanzanian Minister for the Environment, Dr. Terezya Huvisa Luoga, expressed her fears that climate change could cause community conflict in her country.
Dr. Huvisa who is also President of the African Ministerial Conference on the Envi…
The seventh report in Plan’s annual State of the World’s Girls series, ‘In Double Jeopardy’, looks at what happens to adolescent girls in disasters and why. Using original research and the voices of girls themselves, it shows how adolescent girls’ rights are being ignored
before, during and after disasters, both in the urgency of a disaster response, an…
This compendium presents good practices of the community based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach implemented under a Disaster Preparedness project in the North and East of Sri Lanka, supported by the Disaster Preparedness ECHO (DIPECHO). Learning drawn from the project is intended to be replicated and built into future interventions. The compendi…
This report describes a study that aims to understand the causes and consequences of displacement and migration triggered by climate change, and to raise awareness about this issue amongst policy makers, development practitioners, academics and other stakeholders.
The report is comprised of nine sections which define the study, explain the methodology,…
'Let's get involved!':
This document outlines ACT Alliance's commitment to humanitarian principles, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), how ACT aims to meet its disaster resilience commitments through the post-HFA framework, and how ACT members can get involved.
It affirms that: (i) ACT Alliance members have been encouraged to adopt a disaster risk…
By Soumaila T. Diarra
Bamako – The recent conflict in northern Mali, where the situation remains volatile, has left many livestock herders in fear of losing millions of cattle, sheep and goats at a time when they were already struggling to find enough pasture for their animals due to drought.
Since the spring of 2012, violence between Islamist group…
Afghanistan has taken another step towards implementing its national climate strategy by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.
The move makes it the 192th country or regional economic integration organization to sign up to the treaty, which will come into force for Afghanistan on June 23 this year.
Classed as a developing or Non-Annex I country, it will not h…
By Megan Rowling
London - Natural disasters forced 32.4 million people from their homes in 2012, with climate and weather hazards such as floods and storms causing 98 percent of the displacement, a report said on Monday.
The total was almost double the 2011 number, as major floods hit India and Nigeria last year, accounting for 41 percent of global di…
"Climate change does not directly cause conflict, but it can add to the challenges of global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict. Food and water shortages, pandemic disease, disputes over refugees and resources, more severe natural disasters – all place additional burdens on economies, societies and institutions around the world," said he US Secr…
By Jake Lucas
London - Changing weather patterns as a result of climate change are making life much harder for farmers in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, a country already battling with poverty, a recent study says.
With 70 percent of people depending on farming for a living, erratic rainfall leading to decreasing yields is forcing many to find other ways o…
By Leonardo Sáenz
Last year, Leo Sáenz blogged about Gramalote, a town in northeastern Colombia that was buried under a massive mudslide in 2010, triggered by the wettest La Niña event in over a century. Part of a team tasked with determining a new location to rebuild the town, he reports on the progress on the Human Nature Blog.
If you’ve paid any at…
Last week at the UK’s Shelter Forum, international development charity Habitat for Humanity launched its disaster response catalogue which reviews the last 14 years of disaster recovery work.
It catalogues and analyses the charity’s responses to a broad sample of disasters, identifying key learning, challenges and practices for the future.
Mario Flore…
Considerations on, and lessons learned from, the international frameworks for disaster risk reduction:
Based on a comparative review of the main international frameworks for disaster risk reduction adopted by the United Nations since 1971, this paper aims to provide elements for future considerations on substance, form and review mechanisms for the pos…
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The Executive Course in Global Risk Analysis & Crisis Management provides participants with unique insights and fundamental skills required for mastering the field of global risk analysis, early warning and the management of major man-made and natural disasters.
Taught and devised by a renowned faculty of senior officials from major inter…