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ULAANBATAAR, 2 July, 2018 - Over 1,000 cities in Asia Pacific have now signed up to UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient campaign following a historic commitment made by all 329 municipalities of Bangladesh to join the campaign. “Mongolia including all its cities and provinces, was the first Asian country to fully join the campaign and this is a major…
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…
Can social media videos unravel the cause behind a giant tsunami that killed thousands of people?  Citizen science proved it could. They played a big part in solving the mystery behind the tsunami that hit Indonesia in September 2018. The tsunami struck the city of Palu in Sulawesi island last year after an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude and killed m…
By Jonathan Ulrich, Francisco Ianni, and Jimena Cuevas Traditional on-site and face-to-face resilience building activities are unavailable to humanitarian and development organizations due to the Coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns. As communities across the globe still face risks in the form of Covid-19 as well as natural hazards like floo…

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