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Displaying 15 of about 201 resultsTACLOBAN, 9 December 2013 – Sunday marked thirty days since Typhoon Haiyan (known as Yolanda locally) tried to rip the heart out of the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines with winds from hell that sucked the sea along with them to take the lives of thousands and leave millions homeless.
The strength of the Philippine people in the wake of one of…
PARIS, 20 November 2012 - It's a scenario from hell which could rival the 2010 Haitian earthquake in terms of human losses.
Conservative estimates are that the next big earthquake could result in 100,000 dead, 200,000 injured and one to two million people displaced in the fabled Kathmandu Valley where memories live on of the 1934 earthquake which took…
Geneva, 3 July 2012 – The United Nations office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, today officially welcomed five members of parliament from Bangladesh, Uganda, Cambodia, Senegal and the East African Legislative Assembly as parliamentary champions committed to promoting legislation for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
This month…
This position is accountable for ensuring that regional humanitarian work is implemented in line with the agency’s humanitarian mandate and standards. The focus of the position will be oversight of and support to humanitarian capacity building, disaster risk reduction programming, and emergency response in Oxfam Australia’s principle country of operatio…
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…
Vacancy No: 2011-95-fld
Purpose of position:
Under the new Federation Wide Strategic Framework for Haiti 2011 - 2014, DRM programme has a new national wise strategic direction which is also in line with the recovery perspectives and plans for the EQ operation.
DRM programme has three key strategic axes:
1. Vulnerable communities have increased kn…
Following the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the American Red Cross (ARC) is scaling up Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) efforts for building safer and more resilient communities in Haiti together with Haitian Red Cross (HRC) and other relevant stakeholders. The DRR Delegate is responsible for implementing the DRR program activities in an effective and ef…
Background
Prior to the earthquake of January 2010, UNDP Haiti was working in six main areas: Rule of Law and Security, Poverty Reduction, Democratic Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction, Early Recovery and Environment and Energy.
In responses to the devastating effects of the earthquake, UNDP Haiti will now be re-directing its efforts to respond to th…
The overall objective of the project is to reduce the vulnerability of the beneficiaries to natural and man-made disasters at local, national and regional levels.
The fields of activities of the project will be to raise awareness, build capacity and implement:
- early warning systems
- host nation support
- emergency dispatch centres and to bring…
The theme of the 9th APRU Research Symposium on multi-hazards around the Pacific Rim is “integrated management and perspective strategy for reducing risk of multi-hazards”. Scholars and experts from around the Pacific Rim and APRU universities will share and exchange inter-disciplinary knowledge on multi-hazard researches. In the two-day symposium, disc…
These three sectoral reports were produced to complete the Malaysian National slope master plan 2009-2023 with the aim of formulating a detailed, comprehensive and effective framework of policies, strategies and action plans to reduce risks from landslides on slopes nationwide. The plan included activities at the national, state and local levels in both…
This Annual Report highlights the progress and results achieved during FY18. It provides an overview of grant making activities in six regions and across GFDRR’s eight targeted areas of engagement, and a section of Special Features explores various areas of work in greater depth. The report also provides information on the Facility’s financial health. O…
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…
Objective
The main objective of this 5 day training is to allow disaster management communities with easy, quick and accurate access to flood-related information and dissemination through the support of space agencies, disaster charter and research/academic institutions for improved understanding on flood risk monitoring and planning, rapid response sy…