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Displaying 120 of about 382 resultsBarangay Pawa — Rising from the wreckage of Super Typhoon Haiyan, 660 families finally completed the building of their houses and 54 community infrastructure projects in 28 communities in Capiz and Iloilo as the Post-Yolanda Support for Safer Homes and Settlements project implemented by UN-Habitat came to a close last month.
Consequently, a handing ove…
Kathmandu - The World Bank Group today said it would provide up to half-a-billion dollars to finance the reconstruction of Nepal after devastating earthquakes in April and May killed almost 9,000 people and left many mountain districts of the country in ruins.
Subject to the approval of the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, the financing will consis…
Whanganui locals are coming to grips with the devastation caused by the city's biggest ever floods, reports Radio New Zealand.
Hone Tamehima said repairing sacred Maori art would not come cheap when the taonga was priceless. "Insurance-wise, we couldn't even get an evaluation on the carvings, with [them] being original. No insurance company wanted to g…
Nuku’alofa, Tonga – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is working with the Government of Tonga to build up the country’s resilience to natural disasters and to help it achieve the goal of providing half of all electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020, said a new ADB energy report.
The Pacific Energy Update 2015 report said ADB’s investment progr…
By Becky Webb
Three months have passed since Tropical Cyclone Pam tore through Vanuatu and Kalangai Mansale (49), pastor of Feneonge village on Emae Island, is still coming to terms with the impact the storm had on his small community.
“The damage to the church was really bad” he said. “This is our main community centre so we are trying to cover it wi…
Jane Rovins of Massey University says Vanuatu's development partners need to do more to help it prepare for disaster, reports Radio New Zealand.
"We spend billions of dollars a year on disaster response and we spend pennies comparatively on disaster risk reduction," said Rovins.
Hilongos, Leyte – Some 297 survivors of Typhoon Yolanda in this town received P70,000 each for the construction of their new homes under the Core Shelter Assistance Project (CSAP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in partnership with local government units (LGUs) and with funding support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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Aceh residents gathered on Saturday in a number of venues across the province to send their prayers to the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated the region on that same date, 11 years ago, reports Jakarta Globe.
At Banda Aceh’s Ulee Lheue mass grave, where more than 14,000 victims of the disaster were buried, local residents alternately v…
The Asian Development Bank has agreed to provide $15 million grant assistance to help restore the disrupted livelihoods and schooling in the poor and severely earthquake-affected communities, and strengthen their resilience against future disasters, reports the Himalayan.
The grant agreement was signed in Nepal on 8 December by Lok Darshan Regmi, secret…
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On April 25, 2015, Nepal witnessed one of the biggest tragedies in its recorded history. A devastating earthquake claimed more than 8,500 lives, more than 22,000 people suffered injuries, and over 800,000 houses were completely destroyed or damaged, leaving some 3 million people displaced just before the monsoon season. Out of 75 d…
A team from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), visited Dominica during the week of September 7-11th, to offer further assistance with the recovery process after the damage caused by Tropical Storm Erika. The team also liaised with the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica (GOCD) to further craft the Bank’s post-disaster assistance. While there,…
As the world marks six months since one of the worst disasters to ever hit the Pacific, Save the Children is warning that water shortages are impacting cyclone-hit communities across Vanuatu but particularly on islands without natural water sources like rivers and creeks.
In June the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (O…
Kathmandu – Nepali students from the University of Virginia in the United States have delivered a donation to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Nepal following campus fundraising activities.
It was the first time that Diwas Neupane has returned to Nepal since the 25 April earthquake. The recent graduate of finance and mathematics represe…
Extreme loss and survivor guilt after the Typhoon Yolanda (also known as Typhoon Haiyan) disaster have led to depression in at least one in 10 people in Tacloban City, write Jed Alegado and Angeli Guadalupe in an opinion piece on IPS News. But two years after the disaster, some survivors remain unaware of available mental health services.
According to…
By Miklos Gaspar
The IAEA Director General’s Report on the Fukushima Daiichi Accident, along with five technical volumes on this topic by international experts, have just been publicly released. This publication comes ahead of the Agency’s General Conference in September.
The report assesses the causes and consequences of the 11 March 2011 accident at…