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Esta edición presenta el proceso de rediseño PreventionWeb de su plataforma e implementación de un plan para satisfacer las demandas actuales de información y conocimientos sobre la RRD. Se repasa ENSO III Conferencia Internacional "Reducción de las brechas entre Global Ciencia ENSO y los procesos regionales, y los efectos de la extrema". D…
This issue focuses on climate change policy development which may significantly decrease the impact of disasters in Indonesia. It also explores the concept of resilience and ways of increasing community resilient targeting the local low income people in the country. In this issue Resilience Development Initiative (RDI) presents a database that support a…
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RELACIGER Informa es el nuevo medio de comunicación de la Red Latinoamericana de Centros de Información en Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres. Esta primera edición trata sobre sus inicios y logros conseguidos a través de más de una década de trabajo en el región. El boletín también ofrece enlaces a los productos que han desarrollado los centro…
This report describes the concept and methodology of the composite Index For Risk Management (InfoRM) which identifies the countries at a high risk of humanitarian crisis and are more likely to require international assistance. The InfoRM model envisages three dimensions of risk: hazards & exposure, vulnerability and lack of coping capacity. T…
This joint analytical study shows that natural disasters resulting from El Niño, a weather pattern caused by periods of warming in the Pacific Ocean, could have damaging socio-economic effects for the Asia and Pacific region, generating human insecurities and significant hazards for a region highly dependent on its agricultural sector’s crop production.…
This technical guide offers a set of concrete actions and practical orientations to enhance climate resilience and food and nutrition security. These actions should be conducted in priority in communities and countries highly exposed to climate-related shocks and seasonal trends. This guide is designed to complement others tools developed by Action Cont…
This document offers an overview of the actions taken by Guayana's Ministry of Agriculture in the search of addressing vulnerabilities of the country’s flood-defense system by developing a baseline understanding of the complex drainage systems and infrastructure in these flood-prone regions. It aims to identify a set of prioritized, strategic intervent…
This report presents the review of the Community-based Disaster Risk Management and Livelihoods (CBDRML) Programme in Pakistan, and its outcomes. The report on the programme concludes that participating households were better prepared to manage flood-related risk than those outside the programme, and so lost fewer assets during the 2010 floods in Pakist…
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Climate Action Portal to Capture and Catalyze Climate Action in Support of 2015 Agreement
Site Spotlights Rapidly Growing Momentum by Cities, Subnational Regions and Companies
Lima -- A way to increase the visibility of the wealth of climate action by cities, regions, companies and investors was launched today by the government of Peru…
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A combination of climate change vulnerability and food insecurity is amplifying the risks of conflict and civil unrest in 32 countries, including the emerging markets of Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and the Philippines, according to the seventh annual Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas (CCERA) released by global risk ana…
Researchers Rolf Hut, Stijn de Jong and Nick van de Giesen (CiTG) plans to turn our umbrellas into rain gauges. The prototype was introduced at the recent European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly.
The prototype smart brolly has a sensor that detects raindrops falling on its canvas, and uses bluetooth to send this information via a phone to a c…
Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS) adopted the full cycle of DRM (consisting of prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery and rehabilitation) to guide the undertaken programmes with a redirected focus on DRM.
The first step has been to build a Wereda* Disaster Risk Profile (WDRP) which establishes an extensive dat…
According to Devex, many of the strategies and best practices currently available in the international development landscape pertain to frameworks focused on rural contexts — a gap that needs to be bridged to have a comprehensive disaster management strategy. Bridging that gap includes developing knowledge capacity.
London - Almost 22 million people were forced to flee their homes due to natural disasters last year and the numbers uprooted could increase as urban populations grow, a refugee agency said on Wednesday.
The majority were in Asia, where 19 million were displaced by floods, storms and earthquakes, according to the report from the International Displacem…
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