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Displaying 15 of about 89 resultsAlso known as 'Resilient Cities 2014,' this Forum is organized by ICLEI– Local Governments for Sustainability and the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, and co-sponsored by UN-HABITAT, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The…
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Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) is an international emergency response and disaster management agency that provides relief and support services during and following natural and man-made disasters, primarily in the developing world. FOCUS aims to provide disaster mitigation and preparedness programme in vulnerable communities. It al…
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 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 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…
The paper outlines the road to a 1.5 billion, 15 year commitment by the government of British Columbia to school seismic safety. Over the course of a concerted one and a half year public education, media and lobbying campaign, school seismic safety has come to grip the collective social conscience and is becoming a focal point for promoting broader miti…
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Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe / Diakonie Emergency Aid is a German non-governmental organisation providing worldwide humanitarian aid. Diakonie has been working in Pakistan since the earthquake in 2005. Having implemented relief, recovery and rehabilitation operations in Kashmir (AJK) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe has…
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This paper advocates for decisions to be made and programmes designed in order to strengthen a community’s capacity to cope with the impact of disasters and to reduce their vulnerability to future hazards and shocks during the early stages of an emergency response after a disaster strikes. It emphasizes awareness of the importance of earth…
This document reports on Java Reconstruction Fund's achievements and progress in reconstruction in the five years since a major earthquake struck Central Java on May 27, 2006. It includes the prioritisation of disaster risk reduction in all aspects of its programme through earthquake resistant techniques and designs, community infrastructure projects, c…
The United States is helping reduce disaster risks in one of the earth’s most disaster-prone corners, increasing the Nepalese Government’s resilience and strengthening its capacity to respond to its citizens.
Perched atop the Himalayas, Nepal faces multiple natural hazards, including annual floods, landslides, and avalanches, as well as periodic drough…
Afghanistan - Medair’s Disaster Risk Reduction team is helping the most vulnerable villages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province protect themselves in the event of 'natural' disasters.
“The biggest challenge is the roads,” says Kaihan Majeed, Construction Engineer and Senior Coordinator on Medair’s Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) team. In a de-briefing s…
Most houses were damaged by the recent earthquake, north of Padang in the village of Mangopo, however there were no victims. "Everyone reacted very quickly because of the training and that's why no one died in that village" said Malka Older of Mercy Corps Indonesia, which helped train Mangopo and other villages at risk.
"Other nearby villages that were…
GENEVA, 28 April 2016 - One of the world’s most ambitious low-cost housing reconstruction programmes ever to be undertaken in a seismic zone is due to get underway this week following first anniversary of the 25 April Nepal earthquake.
Nepal’s new Reconstruction Authority and its partners are embarking on a programme to provide over 500,000 low-c…
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This book is one of the first attempts of systematic study that analyzes the principles of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and its applicability to the modern context. It intends to become an useful reference material for decision making, research, implementation,…
Colombo - The Government of India in June 2010 announced that it would construct 50,000 houses as part of its post-conflict rehabilitation efforts. The Project is being implemented as full grant assistance amounting to USD 250 million from the Government of India, making it one of the largest grant assistance projects ever undertaken by the Government o…