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The strongest earthquake in Haiti in more than 200 years, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation on January 12, 2010 at 4.53 p.m. (local time). The earthquake led to approximately 220,000 casualties and more than 300,000 persons injured. The government has also estimated that more than 511,000 people hav…
Build Change has ongoing post-earthquake housing reconstruction programs in West Sumatra, Indonesia and Sichuan, China. So far, Build Change has improved the design and/or construction of over 6,400 houses, trained nearly 950 builders and over 1,000 technical high school students, engineers, and government officials in safe construction techniques. Buil…
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…
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…
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:
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…
The importance of reducing exposure to disasters took on a personal hue for the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström.
The envoy had been due to present the Secretary-General's Report on the Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to the UN General Assembly in the first w…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
This campaign for UN IDRR will adopt a multi-pronged approach.
- First is the media campaign which includes newspaper PSA, TV PSA, PSAs on our social media and media interviews on various youth-centred and national media.
- Secondly is a booth at two of the most popular malls to attract children and provide them with information on disasters and how th…
In French:
Ce rapport présente le bilan de l’action humanitaire en faveur des victimes du terrible séisme qui a dévasté Haïti et sa capitale 12 janvier 2010. Après trois ans d’actions sans relâche en Haïti, la Croix-Rouge française est convaincue qu’il faut prendre en considération l'ensemble des vulnérabilités du pays et prône une mobilisation constan…
A Haitian delegation shared an innovative "bottom-up" approach to disaster reduction and management based on community integration and sustainable development with a cadre of top-level experts from approximately 38 nations, at the Consultative Group meeting of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR). "The 2010 earthquake demonstr…
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, is stressing the urgent need for the revised building codes and 'No Building' Zone legislation to be completed as quickly as possible.
The building legislation will empower the Government to prevent construction in disaster-risk areas and will also include compulsory evacuation where there is imminen…
The Haiti Beneficiary Communications Review 2012, which launches today, focuses on work to develop two-way communication with communities recovering from the earthquake, which struck the country in January 2010.
The report finds there has been considerable success in sharing potentially life-saving information – including the setting up of an informati…
The programme is designed to train senior public officials mainly drawn from disaster management agencies and other institutions with the responsibility for supporting disaster risk reduction and disaster management within the Commonwealth so as to enhance their capabilities.
Participants to the programme will also acquire a strategic overview of Singa…
"People assume that if they have an early warning system, their problems are solved," says James Goff, director of the Australian Tsunami Research Centre, based at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
"But it's only one of a suite of ways of being aware what's going on. What's really needed is education about the natural indicators. If you live…