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Experience Sharing Workshop: Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient

European Commission
UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
Incheon
Hurricane Mitch at peak intensity on October 26, 1998 at 19:15 UTC. At the time, it was a Category 5 hurricane. (Credit: NOAA/NASA Satellite image)
Updates

DRR before and after Hurricane Mitch

The Americas Regional Platform had a wide-ranging discussion on the development of disaster risk reduction in Central America since Hurricane Mitch twenty years ago.
Recognising communities as "Tsunami Ready" is a powerful means to curb risk. Cedeño, a fishing town in Honduras, was honoured last week. (Photo: NOAA/CTWP)
Updates

Technology and communities key to curbing tsunami risk

Deploying the power of technology worldwide and ensuring that communities know how to act in an emergency are the keys to curbing the risks posed by tsunamis, experts said this week.
Post-earthquake reconstruction efforts get underway in Nepal (Photo: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
Press Releases

EU provides €6 million to make vulnerable cities resilient to disasters

The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) aim to reduce disaster losses in some of the world’s most hazard prone cities with the initial aid of a €6 million grant from the EU, over the next three years.
Documents and publications

Women’s leadership in risk-resilient development: good practices and lessons learned

This publication aims to shed some light on women’s capabilities to take leading roles in building disaster resilience. It features women as drivers of change in different socio-economic contexts, and under various gender conditions.

While the examples

Margareta Wahlström (third from left), Head of UNISDR, in a high-level panel with ministers from selected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Updates

New pact must integrate DRR and national development

The biggest challenge facing next year’s UN World Conference to agree a new global DRR framework, is how to integrate disaster risk reduction (DRR) into national development plans, Margareta Wahlström, Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), said on Wednesday.

Consulta Nacional Honduras Sobre el Nuevo Marco Internacional Para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres Post-2015

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Comisión Permanente de Contingencias
Tegucigalpa

Honduras: Taller nacional de consulta y divulgación sobre gestión integral del riesgo

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Comisión Permanente de Contingencias
Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central
European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection DG
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Honduras: Taller nacional para el desarrollo de marco nacional de planificación pre-desastre de la recuperación

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
Centro de Coordinación para la Prevención de los Desastres Naturales en América Central
Tegucigalpa