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Displaying 15 of about 441 resultsLa Secretaría de Gestión de Riesgos del Ecuador (SGR), la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (UNISDR), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), la Federación Internacional de Sociedades de la Cruz Roja y Media Luna Roja (IFRC) y Soluciones Prácticas con el auspicio…
Twenty one disaster risk and development specialists from different regions and from academia, international organizations, NGOs and national disaster risk management organizations met at the headquarters of the Latin American Social Science Faculty (FLACSO) in San Jose, Costa Rica for an open debate and discussion on the past and future of disaster ris…
In the context of the implementation of the UNISDR-WMO project “Building resilience to disasters in Western Balkans and Turkey” UNISDR is supporting the attendance of South Eastern Europe (SEE) mayors and city representatives at the 2013 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Geneva (May, 2013). The Global Platform for DRR offers to the pa…
UNISDR Regional Office for Arab States held a national consultation meeting with Lebanese stakeholders (HFA national committee) on the post-2015 global framework for DRR on 4th June 2012.
The meeting was hosted and co-organized in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) – Disaster Risk Management Unit at the Presidency of the C…
The consultations on the post–2015 framework on DRR (HFA2) were held in Pakistan at national and provincial/regional levels by National and Provincial Disaster Management Authorities. Consultations were attended by national, provincial and local government officials, representatives of the key development sectors, disaster management related stakeholde…
The conference will be held as part of the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) celebrations in Uganda, and will be the key highlight of the theme for the celebration. It is organized by the Department of Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Management, Office of the Prime Minister in conjunction with all the Agencies represented in the National…
On Wednesday, May 29 at 8:30 the National Launch of the Global Campaign "Making Cities Resilient, My City is Getting Ready!", which brings together more than 200 cities in the Americas (San Francisco, USA , North Vancouver, Canada, and Mexico City among others) and more than 1300 in the world, will take place in Panama City, Panama.
The campaign focuse…
Jamaica is susceptible to a number of natural hazards. Coupled with factors of vulnerability and exposure, the importance of reducing disaster risk is of paramount importance. In this regard, the National Launch of the Global Campaign "Making Cities Resilient: 'My City is getting ready!'" seeks to address the needs of local governments in Jamaica…
The project, organized by the Municipality Association of Bangladesh, aims to further reduce Bangladesh's vulnerability to adverse natural and anthropogenic hazards and extreme events, including the devastating potential impacts of climate change. It will do so through risk management and mainstreaming. CDMP II is a natural expansion and a logical scali…
A one day workshop on to reactivate the Egyptian participation in the international campaign for disaster risk reduction: Making Cities Resilient will be jointly organized by The Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC), the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbe…
The 2013-2014 DIPECHO Action Plan for the Caribbean aims to establish greater collaboration and coordination between partners, allowing programming of common outcomes and the harmonization of practices. Furthermore, it focuses on improving communication and dissemination of DRR key contributions in the region, by capturing evidence of success on how DIP…
CAIRO, 18 December 2013 – The worst snow storm in decades affected large parts of the Middle East and tested disaster preparedness and management in the region.
‘Alexa’ affected several states, including Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Syria, causing evacuations, blackouts, damage to thousands of homes, road closures, and livestock losses.
Snow fell in…
TACLOBAN, 13 December 2013 – Pop idol Justin Bieber paid a surprise visit to the San Jose Elementary School in Tacloban this week. He stayed about 30 minutes, hugged the kids, sang a few songs, signed some autographs and landed on the front pages of all the Philippine newspapers.
If nothing else, his visit brought a spotlight to bear on the precarious…
TACLOBAN, 9 December 2013 – Sunday marked thirty days since Typhoon Haiyan (known as Yolanda locally) tried to rip the heart out of the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines with winds from hell that sucked the sea along with them to take the lives of thousands and leave millions homeless.
The strength of the Philippine people in the wake of one of…
TUNIS, 2 December 2013 – Tunisia has taken an important step to strengthen its national disaster management with the establishment of a new disaster loss database
The database was validated at a major disaster risk reduction forum that also saw 120 practitioners and policymakers recommend that the post-2015 international framework for disaster risk red…