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Displaying 90 of about 221 resultsEl Ministerio de Educación tiene como meta sensibilizar a los directores y coordinadores docentes de los planteles considerados prioritarios por el sistema educativo nacional sobre el rol de la escuela en momentos de emergencias y desastres, lo que contempla el Plan Integral de gestión de Riesgos del Ministerio de educación y las medidas que se deben t…
The Disaster Management Office of the Cayman Islands Red Cross held its first meeting to discuss 2012 preparedness measures, reports the Caymanian Compass. In collaboration with Hazard Management Cayman Islands, the local Red Cross will establish Community Emergency Response Teams to ensure that community members are well-trained and prepared to identif…
In his op-ed for Kantipur, Ratindra Khatri addresses the shift from disaster management to disaster risk reduction and risk management and the importance of community based disaster risk management. Using Haiti’s case as an example, he compares Port-au-Prince, which he says "was an unplanned and ill-managed city" to Kathmandu, which is "considered a mos…
Plans urgently needed to prepare earthquake survivors for hurricane season
Port-au-Prince - Thousands of earthquake survivors living in camps are vulnerable to landslides and flooding due to hurricanes, according to an evaluation of camp sites carried out by international agency Oxfam. With the hurricane season beginning today, the Haitian government m…
By Yasemin Aysan, Under Secretary General for Disaster Response, on the occasion of the 2009 International Day for Disaster Reduction
Today, as Asia Pacific reels from one devastating disaster after another, more than 12 million people have been extensively affected. Typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis and flooding have uprooted millions, left them homeless…
As per Newsday, the Trinidad and Tobago Red Cross Society will visit five communities in Trinidad to help citizens be more prepared for disasters. Red Cross’ project co-ordinator, Joseph Charles, said the five urban communities chosen this year were going to be a challenge as the identified areas were widely known as crime "hot spots."
By Isabel Beltrán
One year after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, the island remains on the long path to recovery from more than $90 billion in damage. As civilians attempt to rebuild their lives and return to a semblance of normalcy, communities are relying on nonprofit and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) now more than ever.
Amid strain…
By Catharina Klingspor
Nestled between Gayle and Guy’s Hill, Jeffrey Town in north-eastern Jamaica is particularly exposed to natural disasters. At an elevation of 1,700 feet, the village is built on sloping terrain and has the highest total recorded number of landslides in the country.
This is where Jeffrey Town Farmers Association (JFTA)…
Beyond reconstruction: re-envisioning Haiti with equity, fairness, and opportunity:
This paper addresses the decisions already being implemented in Haiti on relief, reconstruction and recovery, and calls for a 'build back better' approach. It sets out some basic rules and principles for the reconstruction process, and highlights some of Oxfam’s concer…
Tongan officials said community projects undertaken by a multinational task group led by the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) were expected to reduce the vulnerability of remote communities to the impact of drought.
The projects, designed to improve water storage in two main islands in Tonga’s Ha’apai island group, were undertaken as part of Exer…
Tautu village in Aitutaki, Cook Islands now has completed a disaster and climate resilience pilot project. It was developed with support from the Finland-Pacific (FINPAC) Project which aims to reduce the vulnerability of the livelihoods of Pacific islanders to the impacts of climate change through strengthening the Meteorological Services.
The project…
Federated States of Micronesia - IOM offices across the Pacific are in the midst of a busy week, marking International Disaster Reduction Day (IDDR). From its beginnings as a single-day event on one island, IOM has now expanded it to four of the main islands in the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and a four-day e…
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, women leaders in the Pacific have been able to carve a larger space to bring the voices and perspectives of women and girls to the policy tables and influence disaster preparedness and response.
Ms Agnes Titus, of the Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation in Bougainville, an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea, co…
Pardeep C Lal, details the tasks to be dealt with right after a disaster strikes, highlights the roles of the government and NGOs in the case of Fiji. He adds that the concept of early recovery has shifted from a tendency for temporary measures towards a more permanent, long term recovery and reconstruction phase. "Disaster response alone is not suffic…
Geneva - The "everyday" disasters that do most harm to poor people are going largely unnoticed, depriving many of aid that could stop them falling into a downward spiral, government officials and development experts say.
A report prepared for the U.N. Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva this week interviewed 21,455 people in 57 countr…