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By Midhat Ali Zaidi
Shangla District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Nestled deep in the Hindukush Mountains, are several towns and villages, where the 2015 Earthquake of October 26th has ravaged the lives of many people. Until now, 271 deaths have been reported from different areas of Pakistan, mainly from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, while the number of i…
Subba Karki doesn’t have much to sell at his vegetable shop right now. But staying home left him feeling paralyzed, replaying in his mind what happened in the hour just after the Nepal earthquake on April 25, the worst to hit the region in 80 years.
To hear his story, we cautiously step over cracked concrete, smashed bricks and debris to reach his one-…
Nepal will start repairs and reconstruction next week for nearly a million homes damaged by last year's deadly earthquakes, the head of a state agency said on Saturday, nearly nine months after the disaster left hundreds of thousands homeless, reports Reuters.
Following last year's earthquake, many are forced to brave freezing temperatures living in te…
By Catherine Wilson
Madang, Papua New Guinea - For 11 years, the people of Manam Island, a volcano rising out of the Bismarck Sea around 15 km off Papua New Guinea's north coast, have waited to be resettled after fleeing devastating eruptions in 2004.
In July this year, another eruption inflicted more suffering on several thousand people who had retur…
Ponnagyun, Myanmar – More than one month on from the collapse of their home in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, Ma Nge and her 10-year-old son remain homeless. The strong winds created by Cyclone Komen had felled a nearby palm tree, causing it to fall directly onto the frail, thatched structure.
Standing in front of the fragments of their former home,…
By David Giambusso
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, several federally sponsored projects sought to usher in new modes of urban design that protected against sea-level rise and re-imagined neighborhood design.
Now, the projects in New York and New Jersey, chosen through a national competition called Rebuild by Design, face challenges related to implemen…
Startling results from a new report out of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo find all 10 provinces and Yukon are not as prepared for floods as they could be.
The report, Climate Change and the Preparedness of Canadian Provinces and Yukon to Limit Potential Flood Damage, surveyed 103 government representatives across…
Storms, floods, earthquakes, droughts and other similar natural events are often identified as disasters or 'natural disasters'. However disasters are not natural and only occur when a society or community cannot cope with the events. The social impacts include loss of human lives, economic losses and loss of properties and source of livelihoods.
While…
Four months after the devastating April 25 earthquake in Nepal, the delayed return of migrant family members, coupled with low levels of disaster-preparedness, has become a major concern for Nepal`s households with external migrants, reports Zee News.
Sijapati, Research Director at the Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility (CESLAM), noted that th…
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From Risk to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development for All in a COVID-19 Transformed World
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum to assess and discuss progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The seventh session of the Global Platf…
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…
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, 21 August 2015 – A group of Cuban students has won an international prize awarded to budding architects who deploy their talents to reduce the risk of disasters.
The four-member team from the Central University Marta Abreu de las Villas won their award at the 7th i-Rec student competition in London, where the jury lauded their p…
Tonga has ranked second and third place on the World Risk Report since its first publication in 2011 and ranks second on this year’s report even when the focus was on forced displacement and migration. Tonga has seen increase in tropical cyclones in the past 30 years and it is increasing not only in numbers but in velocity. The Intergovernmental Panel f…
Children, a priority in disaster emergency management and response.
UNICEF's Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-operate on the development of more resilient communities, states and regional actors in preparation for disasters or emergenci…
This document presents a stocktaking of the reconstruction effort aiming at enabling people to regain the base of their livelihoods and live self-reliantly in a secure and conducive environment.