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The latest news from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the lead UN agency for the coordination of disaster risk reduction.

She was the first woman to take office as a Mayor in Mauritania and her stature as a champion for resilience and disaster risk reduction in Africa was confirmed last week when she was elected President of the Women’s Federation of Mayors in Africa.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today announced that it is accepting nominations for the 2013 UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction, a prestigious award made possible by an endowment from the Nippon Foundation of Japan.
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An early view of disaster trends in 2012 across Asia, the world's most disaster-prone region, shows that mortality from flood events continues to decline but economic losses remain a major cause of concern.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
The UN General Assembly confirmed that Japan will host the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015 when it passed its annual resolution yesterday on the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
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Project NOAH (DOST Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards) includes an online interactive monitoring and forecasting  system.
The UN Office for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) today praised the improved performance of early warning systems in the Philippines as Typhoon Bopha cut a swathe of destruction across the country resulting in over 200 deaths and significant economic losses.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Moshi, Tanzania
A new report published today by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR, lays bare the huge challenges faced by medium-sized African towns struggling to cope with the rising tide of disaster events, rural-urban migration and ecosystem destruction without early warning systems or budgets to reduce risk.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
From left: Director of Chile's National Emergency Office of Ministry of the Interior and Public Security Benjamin Chacana and Head of UNISDR's Regional Office in the Americas Ricardo Mena at the closing of the 3rd Session of the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Santiago, Chile.
Following a long final session last night, participants at the Third Session of the Regional Platform for the Americas issued the Santiago Communiqué which concretely spells out actions by countries in the Americas region to speed up implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 -- a global disaster reduction plan that was adopted by UN Member States seven years ago.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
The global burden of disasters and armed violence which affect over 200 million people and result in over 500,000 deaths each year will be the focus of a forum on conflict and fragility which opens in Liberia tomorrow.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
The countries and territories of Latin America and the Caribbean are meeting to review the region's implementation of the world's first international framework agreement for reducing disaster risk, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), designed to save lives, jobs and properties from natural hazards.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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An analysis of activity around last month’s high-profile International Day for Disaster Reduction shows that social media played a key role in sharing news and messages and engaging people to join in the celebrations with 27 million views of over 5,000 tweets on Twitter...
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