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Displaying 90 of about 92 resultsThis multi-hazard contingency plan was developed as a collaborative effort and consultative process under the guidance of the Department of Disaster Management Affairs. Malawi is prone to a variety of slow and sudden-onset disasters which include floods, dry spells, stormy rains, strong winds, hailstorms, landslides, earthquakes, pest infestations,…
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Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has joined the programme Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030), a 10-year long initiative to strengthen the resilience of cities around the world.
This webinar brings together the main organisations supporting cities and municipalities arou…
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Singapore)
Worldwide, at least 875 million school children live in high seismic risk zones and hundreds of millions more face regular floods, landslides, extreme winds and fire hazards. Over the last decade, Asia has suffered the greatest number of natural disasters with 80% of the global death toll.
Children’s vulnerability…
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in New Zealand under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence among the key global frameworks at the national level; and makes recommendations for…
The disaster risk reduction (DRR) status report provides a snapshot of the state of DRR in Myanmar under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence among the key global frameworks at the national level; and makes recommendations for…
The article aims to better understand the Voluntary Commitments (VCs) by focusing on three issues: the attention being paid to landslides among all stakeholders working on DRR (those who published VCs at UNDRR’s Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments online plat- form); the characteristics of landslide VCs; and the existence of commonalities among these…
The report analyses climate-related displacement as well as a post-earthquake response across eight countries, examining response by National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in coordination with governments and other agencies. The research finds that displacement disproportionately affects already marginalised and at-risk groups including women, ch…
The objective of this report is to outline the various contributions of community-based organization (CBO) activities in terms to COVID-19 response, with a special emphasis on the case studies of Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Syria through a process of data scoping, as part of iMMAP's COVID-19 Situation Analysis Project. Community-based organiza…
With homemade rafts and plastic-bottle life jackets, teams of young villagers save stranded locals when the Brahmaputra River bursts its banks.
MAJDOLOPA, India, Nov 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giridhar Pegu shuddered as he remembered the day in July last year when raging flood-waters trapped him, alone, in his home in northeast India.
More than…
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Disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies can help guide cities towards sound actions to improve disaster resilience. As a Core Member of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) provides an 8-step practical method for developing l…
By Kate Green
Scientists are calling on the public to become citizen seismologists to test a low-cost early earthquake warning system in the community.
Led by the Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University and co-funded by the university and The Earthquake Commission (EQC), the scientists will trial a network of the sensors installed in c…
Following a robust and successful screening process, the first cohort of applicants for the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management’s (ODPM) Volunteer Programme commenced their orientation training on Saturday 06th February 2021. Twenty-seven eager persons underwent the highly anticipated morning and afternoon sessions conducted at the National S…
Suva – Producing and using disaggregated disaster and climate data is vital to build a resilient Blue Pacific that includes some of the region’s most vulnerable populations.
This was the headline call from female leaders representing different sectors to policymakers and practitioners across the region.
The ‘Counting women: using disaggregated…
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Launched in September 2020, the City Climate Finance Gap Fund (Gap Fund) aims to help cities in low and middle-income countries strategize, plan and prepare climate mitigation and adaptation projects. The Gap Fund helps cities at an early stage by offering free technical and advisory services to pr…
Announced today, the Civil Society Collaborative on Inclusive COVID-19 Data will work alongside marginalised communities and activists to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and collectively advocate for an inclusive recovery.
With COVID-19 pushing up to 150 million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021, t…