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Displaying 105 of about 165 resultsGENEVA, 28 January 2014 – The French capital, Paris, has been invited to join the “Making Cities Resilient” Campaign by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction as a new OECD analysis reveals the extent of the city’s exposure to a repeat of a major flood disaster.
The OECD Review on Flood Risk Management of the Seine River – commissioned by Etablissem…
Exploring the concept of resilience as a useful framework of analysis for how society can cope with the threat of natural and human induced hazards.
Despite resilience having been widely adopted in research, policy and practice to describe the way in which they would like to reduce our society’s susceptibility to the threat posed by hazards, there is l…
Over the past 20 years disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage and killed 1.3 million people. Natural disasters affected people living in developing countries and the most vulnerable communities within those countries. Over 95 percent of people killed by natural disasters are from developing countries.
Asia and the P…
Organizers invite world leaders and top scientists to our Tokyo conference prior to the Third Un World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to discuss and formulate how the science and technology could help in disaster risk reduction and hence fostering sustainable development. The discussions will be based on the following three viewpoints.
First of…
Meeting Objectives:
1. Provide views on the SRSGs paper Proposed Elements for Consideration in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, with a focused discussion on the enhanced system for monitoring progress.
2. Identify modalities for UN engagement in the preparations for and at the WCDRR.
3. Define areas where UN commitments will be sh…
A meeting of the Ministers of Disaster Management and Emergency Situations of the Central Asian and South Caucasus countries will be held in 29-30 January in Bishkek hosted by the Government of Kyrgyzstan to discuss and agree on the Regional statement of the countries of Central Asia and South Caucasus on cooperation and coordination in the implementati…
GENEVA, November 18, 2014 - The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the Nippon Foundation today signed an agreement that will make the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) accessible and inclusive for persons with disabilities.
The agreement will provide real-time captioning in English and Japanese and i…
The successor to the Hyogo Framework for Action will be agreed at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan in March 2015. The critical need for science and evidence and the need for a mechanism for international science advice for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) have been raised in many of the negotiations taking place ahead of the World…
Public and multi-stakeholders event which is part of a broader process to debate a "new paradigm" for civil defence and DRR in Brazil, from the local to the national level.
The event was also part of UNISDR's 'Making cities resilient: My city is getting ready!' world disaster reduction campaign.
La Secretaría de Emergencia Nacional (SEN) de Paraguay y la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (UNISDR) junto con los socios del Plan de Acción del Programa de Preparación ante Desastres de la Comisión Europea (DIPECHO) América del Sur 2013-2014 y con financiamiento de la Dirección General de Ayuda Humanitaria y Pro…
14-PGM-UNISDR-38753-R-ALMATY (ALMA ATA) (E)
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Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
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Org. Setting And Reporting
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) is t…
14-PGM-UNISDR-38744-R-KOBE (E)
United Nations Core Values:
Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
Special Notice
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Org .Setting And Reporting
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Secretariat of the Int…
14-PGM-UNISDR-38324-R-CAIRO (E)
United Nations Core Values:
Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
Special Notice
This post is funded from project funds and extension is subject to availability of funds.
Org .Setting And Reporting
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Secretariat of the In…
UNISDR/IMIS: 508317
United Nations Core Values:
Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
Org. Setting And Reporting
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among…
This summary provides the Chair’s assessment of the main points of the key issues discussed during the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management, held in Suva, Fiji on 2–4 June 2014.
It presents (i) the findings of a ten-year review of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in the region; (ii) a summary of a High-level dialogue between prominent repr…