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Wendwosen Beri Belete has vivid memories of the night of August 6, 2006 when devastating flash floods swept through his home in the city of Dire Dawa in Eastern Ethiopia. The floods were the worst the city had experienced in 50 years, resulting in the deaths of 256 people.
‘It rained solidly for two hours and the floods took everyone by surprise. In…
When considering the challenges faced by the Occupied Palestinian Territories, climate change would probably not be the first to spring to mind.
But it’s just one of the many increasingly interlinked issues that the 200,000 inhabitants of Nablus must deal with.
Nablus is a city in the northern region of the West Bank, approximately 60 kilometres nor…
Located 570 kilometres off the coast of west Africa in the Atlantic Ocean, the Island Nation of Cape Verde is an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands covering an area of over 4,000 square kilometres. Cape Verde’s population of approximately 500,000 is scattered across all but one of the islands. Over 55% reside on the large…
Interview with Dr. Saleck Ahmed Sherif, Nouakchott Focal Point
What are the greatest challenges facing your city?
A: One of the biggest challenges that we face is the institutional challenge between the national and local levels and the things that each find important which differ from body to body. In order to work effectiv…
When Aboua Chantal looks down upon the homes built on her ancestral lands in the suburb of Melen, her main concern is how she can safeguard the local residents when the next rains come. Situated in the lowlands of Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, Melen is an informal settlement where hundreds of families are living illegally.…
SRSG Opening Remarks
Consultative Workshop: Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction and
Early Warning in Indonesia
BNPB Conference Centre, Jakarta, Indonesia
10.00am on 29 May 2019
Lieutenant General Doni Monardo,
Esteemed representatives and colleagues,
Good morning and thank you for those remarks,
Indonesia is an importan…
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE UN OFFICE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION TO THE UN ENVIRONMENT ASSEMBLY
15 March 2019
DELIVERED BY MAMI MZUTORI – THE SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Distinguished delegates,
Economic losses from disasters have risen dramatically with the doubling of extreme weather events…
Opening Remarks
United Nations Sasakawa award
GP2019
8.15 - 19.15 - 16 May 2019, Room 2
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen -
I am delighted to welcome you to the United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction.
This award is given every two years to individuals or institutions that have made substantive impact on reducing disaste…
SPEECH BY SRSG
GP2019 – 16 May 2019
Roundtable 2 “Risk-Informed Investments & Economics of DRR”
I hope some of you will have seen the press release we issued last week outlining an initiative by a large Norwegian Pension Fund, KLP, to start geo-tagging investment assets against their exposure to disaster and climate risk.
This is…
2nd Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference
13 May 2019
10.00 – 11.00
WMO
OPENING REMARKS
Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
7 minutes
SALUTATIONS/THANKS
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Secretary-Gen…
SRSG: CLOSING OF THE STAKEHOLDER FORUM
14 May 2019, 15.00 – 16.30
Room 2, CCV
CLOSING REMARKS
Let me start by expressing my appreciation for the energy, enthusiasm and hard work of the panelists members of the UNDRR Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (SEM) in making this innovative event a success.
As you know, we only officially laun…
ACCRA, 17 December, 2019 - Young Gambian TV reporter and presenter, Jainaba Sonku, is one of a growing number of African journalists engaging in the struggle to reduce disaster risk and disaster losses across the continent.
She vowed to use her influential show Youth Dialogue on the country’s private channel QTV, “to bring the young people of Gam…
DHAKA, 16 December 2019 - A new record for evacuations was set in Bangladesh a month ago when the government Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) evacuated 2.1 million people before Cyclone Bulbul made landfall on the Sundarbans coast.
The storm highlights why the CPP is planning to expand its geographical coverage and grow from 56,000 volunteers…
DECEMBER 12, 2019 - The 900,000 Rohingya who have fled the pogroms launched against them in Myanmar now live in 34 densely populated camps at risk of floods, landslides and cyclones in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Elephant watchtowers also dot the camps which lie in the middle of a major breeding ground for Asian elephants.
Two years after the main influx…
26 November 2019, Incheon – Ten officials from Kampala Capital City Authority’s (KCCA) various departments recently visited Incheon Metropolitan City to learn more from the city’s experience on disaster risk reduction and climate change policies and good practices.
Consolate Nakyagaba said, “Kampala joined the Making Cities Resilient Campaign in 2011 k…