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Displaying 75 of about 294 resultsThis round table will take place on the first day of the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE Region (1-2 March 2018). Please register for the Regional Forum to attend.
Round table overview
Achieving long-term sustainability of cities and communities, ensuring they are resilient, connected; institutionally-, spatially- and socially…
ARISE Japan is hosting its third annual public symposium. The 2018 symposium will explore how the private sector may contribute to resilient communities through a multi-stakeholder panel discussion with panelists representing government, local government, civil society, academia, and the private sector.
This symposium is open to the wider private secto…
Background:
Overall, the workshop will focus on:
Using the Sendai Framework Monitor System including uploading and entering data, analytical capabilities of the system as well as levels of application (global, regional, national, local);
Reviewing Global (obligatory) and Custom (optional) Sendai Framework Indicators and links with SDG Indicators; a…
The 1st meeting of the Arab Coordination Mechanism for Disaster Risk Reduction and the implementation of Sendai Framework in 2018 will be held on 23-24 January 2018 in Tunis, Tunisia. This meeting is being organized by UNISDR Regional Office for Arab States in close cooperation with Government of Tunisia and the League of Arab States. The focus of this…
Job Opening number: 18-Administration-UNISDR-103037-R-NAIROBI (X)
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 efforts to reduce disasters and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activit…
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 efforts to reduce disasters and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nations and regional organizations and activities…
Duration: Total 8 weeks over April 2018 to July 2018
Supervisors / Reporting arrangement: Head of UN-Habitat HQs Evaluation Unit; Project Manager UN-Habitat and Project Manager UNISDR
Missions to Barcelona and Incheon: April 2018 (2 weeks)
Background
Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient is a joint Action (hereafter ‘the project’) between the Euro…
Job Opening Number: 18-Programme Management-UNISDR-93335-J-Geneva (X)
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 efforts to reduce disasters and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction act…
Job Opening number: 18-Finance-UNISDR-90495-R-GENEVA (X)
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 efforts to reduce disasters and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of th…
This guidance note is intended to provide action-oriented guidance to government officials facing post-disaster recovery challenges related to the transport sector. The guidance note frames the scope of recovery work, including the administrative elements for setting up a planned and organized recovery of the transport sector, the implementation activit…
This document is the ninth and last in a series of hazard-specific risk assessment modules, compiled as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction to the assessment of the risk of natural hazard-triggered technological accidents.
The impacts of natural…
This Strategic Approach to Capacity Development for Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction seeks to establish among all stakeholders a common understanding of capacity development within the disaster risk reduction (DRR) context. By characterizing outstanding capacity development needs in light of common obstacles and constra…
This document is the second in a series of hazard-specific risk assessment modules, compiled as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction on the assessment of tsunami hazard through probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis (PTHA), with alternate models use…
This document is the first in a series of hazard-specific risk assessment modules, compiled as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction on the assessment of earthquake hazard, whether deterministically or probabilistically. This document briefly explains the two…