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Displaying 15 of about 148 resultsNEW YORK, 9 April 2013 - Early last Saturday morning, some 1,000 residents of the city of Hoboken in New Jersey, birthplace of the legendary crooner Frank Sinatra, came out in full force and high spirits to run a special race in aid of Hurricane Sandy disaster relief in both Hoboken and its sister city Port Maria in Jamaica.
"We are still recovering fr…
By Yuki Matsuoka
SENDAI, 24 October 2011 - Four student representatives from Kobe University, Bukkyo University and Tohuku University announced a ‘Youth Declaration’ during United Nations Day celebrations in Sendai City to highlight the commitment and active participation of youth in building disaster resilient communities.
The students said the dec…
The goal of BCPR’s presence in UNDP Regional Service Centers (RSCs) is to ensure substantive advice on crisis prevention and recovery (CPR) issues to all UNDP work streams. Specifically, the BCPR/RSC component provides substantive partnerships support and performs cross-practice integration and coordination functions strengthening BCPR support to UNDP C…
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…
The conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
Over the years the need has surfaced for a more Caribbean focused conference on all possible disaster hazards. This conference seeks to bring together government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector for information exchange, dialogue and development of methods and practice to reduce the harmful impacts of hazards and disasters in the Cari…
Purpose of Position
The position aims to develop the IFRC's capacity in the Pacific to persuade decision makers and opinion leaders to act, at all times, in the interest of vulnerable people, and with respect for the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement.
This position will require the successful candidate to develop strong rel…
Background on ACTED
ACTED is an independent international, private, non-partisan and non-profit organization that operates according to principles of strict neutrality, political and religious impartiality, and non discrimination. ACTED was created in 1993 to support populations affected by the conflict in Afghanistan. Based in Paris, France, ACTED now…
Background:
Timor-Leste faces high levels of risks associated with natural hazards. Every year, the country suffers from localized events including, floods, landslides and strong winds. Vulnerable communities have borne the impacts of such natural hazards, which often exacerbate food insecurity. The country is also prone to earthquakes and tsunamis, wh…
EMPA is the national conference for emergency and disaster communications practitioners held annually since 2006.
EMPA disaster communication conference sponsored by Emergency Management Australia will beheld in Canberra in June.
Attendees will hear some of the world’s leading disaster communications professionals, including Denis McLean, Chief of Com…
Course overview
The Asia Pacific region faces human tragedy and heavy economic losses from disasters, whose frequency and intensity have escalated in recent years. The Asian and Japanese Tohoku region tsunamis; recent earthquakes of Kashmir, China and Christchurch; cyclone Nargis; Pakistan and Thailand floods, as well as Afghanistan blizzards highlight…
Study tour destinations: New York City, USA; Tokyo, Japan; Sendai, Japan; and Chengdu, China
The 2013 Disaster Management and Resiliency Journalism Fellowships program will introduce participating journalists to a broad range of disaster management and recovery activities in the United States, Japan and China as well as post-disaster challenges to poli…
Abstract submission is now open.
2015 will be the 4th Annual Conference, continuing the support for the Disaster and Emergency Management community. The focus on natural disasters will continue with the conference theme of “EARTH; FIRE AND RAIN”.
The Conference will feature multi-agency presentations covering all phases of emergency and disaster manag…
What can communities do for themselves and how can they maintain basic functions and structures during a disaster and then recover after the event is the focus of the workshop on Communities Resilience During and After Disasters organised by the EU-funded PPRD South Programme in Madrid from 12 to 15 September 2011.
More than 40 experts working in the N…
The Context
On November 8, 2011, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, noted that China “experienced more major reported disasters” in 2010 than any other country. They included successions of severe droughts and dust storms in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi,…