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Displaying 30 of about 982 resultsCairo, 9 June - The first comprehensive training on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab region gathered thirty leading specialists to discuss regional and global disaster risk trends. The course, organized by the UNDP Regional Centre for Arab States in Cairo (RCC), was held from 23-26th May in Cairo and provided valuable insight on disaster risk assessm…
Disasters are not natural; hazards are, says a new UNISDR media book launched at the Third Session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction last week by Tim Sebastian of BBC Hard Talk.
“Around twenty years ago I covered an earthquake in El Salvador and I wish I had had this book with me at the time. Nobody told me I had to go beyond the broken…
Cairo, 22 May - The United Nations report titled “Revealing risk, redefining Development”, launched this May by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the Third Session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva, reveals a new interest and concern for disaster risk reduction in the Middle East and North Africa.
The second edit…
Geneva, 20 May -- After announcing last week that Geneva would take part in the United Nations "Making Cities Resilient" campaign, Pierre Maudet, the incoming Mayor of Geneva as of 1 June, said the city would share experiences with other local governments seeking to manage risk.
Mr. Maudet made that comment at a meeting convened by the United Nations s…
UNISDR welcomes the report of the Multilateral Aid Review (MAR) of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) as an innovative and critical contribution to strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of international cooperation frameworks for the delivery of aid.
The definition of indicators to determine “value added” for mul…
Geneva – Some 373 natural disasters killed over 296,800 people in 2010, affecting nearly 208 million others and costing nearly US$110 billion, according to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
The top two most lethal disasters -- the 12 January earthquake in Haiti, which killed over 222,500 people, as well as the Russian hea…
16 September 2010
Sixteen UN country teams in West and North Africa examine ways to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change into development frameworks
Geneva – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the ISDR secretariat at the United Nations (ISDR secretariat), and the United Nations…
UNISDR press release 2010/17
United Nations to release “Natural hazard fact sheets for Kenya” and draft “Training for Trainers” toolkit to strengthen disaster management in Kenya
Nairobi – On 25 to 26 August, the UNISDR Regional Office for Africa will hold a pilot workshop on “Training of Trainers” in the Rift Valley Province to test a toolkit to “tra…
ECOSOC Side Event 2010/ New York
Resilient Cities: Disaster Risk Reduction in an Urbanizing World
Highlights in a nutshell:
• Cities are engines for development, prosperity, innovation and hope, and therefore they will soon be home to two thirds of the global population. But they are also home to one billion poor people living in informal settlements…
Six months on: Haiti and disaster risk reduction
Reconstruction will take years but Haiti must emerge safer said Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
It has been six months since a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, causing major damage to the capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding area. While a great deal has been…
"Making Cities Resilient", the global biannual awareness campaign 2010 - 2011, is launched today, Sunday 30 May 2010 in Bonn, Germany.
The campaign aims at strengthen a city’s readiness to reduce disaster impacts, by raising awareness and boost commitment for sustainable development practices that will increase a city’s well-being and safety.
The extended Africa Programme of Action for the Implementation of the Africa Regional Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction was adopted by African ministers. The ministers were among more than 250 participants from 42 African countries who gathered at the Second Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction that took place from 14 to 16 April 2010 a…
Helen Clark: Statement at the Montreal Ministerial Conference
Let me also join others in thanking the Government of Canada for hosting this important Preparatory Conference. We appreciate the leadership demonstrated by the Government, as well as the active involvement and concern of so many here today in addressing the disaster Haiti has endured. I wou…
ISDR-Asia Partnership
The Asia Regional Plan provides a broad policy direction to guide the implementation of the Sendai Framework in context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the region and highlights the role of the ISDR-Asia Partnership (IAP) Forum as an instrumental means to ensure its achievement and monitor its progress. The…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) emphasizes the necessity to strengthen competencies, management and implementation capacities at different governance levels as a necessary condition to progress in the reduction of disaster risk and associated loss at global, regional, and local level. Specifically recognizing the fundamental…