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KOBE, 17 October 2011 - Recognizing the importance of risk reduction, the Japanese city of Saijo, located in Ehime prefecture on Shikoku Island, expanded their disaster risk reduction (DRR) education program to train children and young people to be future leaders in DRR. On 14 October, a lecture program was organize…
GENEVA, 4 July 2011 – As Europe and North America move into the summer season, the risk of wildfires will increase. While these natural hazards may not get the attention of earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones, their destructive potential is considerable and reducing the risks they present should be a priority for countries who face this threat.
Over two…
TACLOBAN, 13 December 2013 – Pop idol Justin Bieber paid a surprise visit to the San Jose Elementary School in Tacloban this week. He stayed about 30 minutes, hugged the kids, sang a few songs, signed some autographs and landed on the front pages of all the Philippine newspapers.
If nothing else, his visit brought a spotlight to bear on the precarious…
NEW YORK, 2 August 2013 – Why are persons with disabilities so disproportionately affected by disasters? This was the important, if often overlooked, question presented to the largest international meeting on disability issues, at the United Nations last week.
The answer, simply put, is because disaster prevention measures are designed and implemented…
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, 13 August 2012 - A new study by UNICEF and UNESCO is a timely assessment of just how some countries are faring, or not, with the implementation of disaster risk reduction education seven years after such education was requested by the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA).
The HFA - the 10-year global disaster risk reduction action plan agreed upon…
RIO DE JANEIRO, 21 June 2012 - The UK's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, used yesterday's UNISDR "Resilient Cities" event at Rio+20 to make an urgent appeal for scientists to use plain language if they are to play a larger role in policymaking on climate change.
"The next fifteen years are really problematic. We'll have a billion more peo…
GENEVA, 12 June 2012 - UNISDR chief Margareta Wahlström today congratulated Switzerland for getting ready to face the consequences of a major earthquake even if the last one happened over 1,000 years ago.
"It is good to see Switzerland setting an example for earthquake preparedness. Taking this threat seriously and involving its neighbors in an ambitio…
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…
Oxfam GB Humanitarian Office in Jogjakarta is looking for an Indonesian nationality to be a Disaster Risk Reduction Trainer to conduct the following activities in the near future:
- Facilitate emergency responses management workshop for Oxfam GB's partners, Local Government, and Organizers
- Facilitate workshop participants to increase knowledge and ski…
Job Summary
While Compassion International does not intend to become a disaster relief organization, these events continue to negatively impact the lives of our beneficiaries. The Senior Program Disaster Risk Reduction & Response (DRR & R) Specialist leads the identification, development, rollout and implementation support of Compassion Interna…
The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has made a gradual shift in disaster management towards a comprehensive risk reduction approach that recalls and learns from past experience in order to anticipate and reduce the impact of future risks. In doing this, the GoB recognizes that a large percentage of people are vulnerable to different disasters and that th…
UNICEF MENARO invites applications from experienced and well qualified disaster risk reduction (DRR) experts and organisations for inclusion in its Pool of DRR Experts for MENA.
Purpose & Objectives:
UNICEF MENA Country Offices are scaling up their DRR activities in particular within the education and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors,…
Established in 1888 Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) is one of Germany's longest established and largest social welfare organisations. ASB entered Haiti following the January 2010 earthquake and has established projects in emergency relief; reconstruction and training. ASB is a key player in disaster risk reduction education in Indonesia and now aims to tr…
This e-learning course focuses on disaster risk management (DRM) at the city level. Participants will learn, in particular, about planning and decision making under uncertainty and how to make their cities more resilient to climate change impacts and natural disasters. The course provides cutting edge tools on vulnerability assessment, institutional ass…