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Displaying 60 of about 277 resultsThis paper outlines the priority actions on the need to integrate natural hazard and climate change risks in a more effective way into national development strategies including poverty reduction strategies endorsed by over 200 participants representing national governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies, civil society organizations, experts and re…
On February 22nd, 2007, about 70 professionals from the private sector and the development community met at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. to explore the opportunities and challenges for developing Private-Public Partnerships (PPPs) for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). This dialogue was organised under the auspices of the World Bank’s new…
This three-day media training will be held during the Third Asian Ministerial Conference and aims at increasing awareness on disaster risk reduction and providing the Asian media with a set of tools to improve their reporting on disaster risk reduction.
The 2006 Tokyo Action Plan on the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) was adopted by the international community. It proposed the global cooperating Network of the IPL, and established the IPL Global Promotion Committee and the IPL World Centre as its secretariat to coordinate and support implementation of the International Programme on Landslid…
UN/ISDR Africa educational series, vol. 1, issue 4
The present booklet seeks to help school teachers and students understand how land becomes degraded, what to do about it, and the link between good use of land, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development.
UNISDR as a part of the World Disaster Campaign and the "Disaster Risk Reduction begins in School" program, has created the Toolkit, a resource providing informative documents and interactive learning tools from various organizations who have partnered with the UNISDR in building awareness in Latin America and the Caribbean on the ever important theme o…
The video shows how school children in Central America have been affected by the impact of natural hazards. Their education suffers when schools are turned into temporary shelters, often for an extended period of time. Education in disaster preparedness is important for improving communities’ resilience.
In Spanish:
El video muestra como niños de escue…
As part of its advocacy and awareness-raising roles, UNISDR attaches a great importance to increasing media contributions to disaster risk reduction. UNISDR believes that closer working relations between disaster managers/experts and the media will help convey disaster risk reduction messages better to communities and decision-makers.
In this context,…
A three-day workshop in Geneva began work on policy guidelines for mainstreaming gender into disaster risk reduction (DRR), on 28-30 January. Experts from different backgrounds agreed that there was much common ground between gender mainstreaming in Climate Change Adaptation, Environmental Resource Management and DRR, that a gender perspective had not b…
It could have been completely different. In the Pacific Ocean region, tsunami early warning systems have been in place for years, particularly in Japan and the United States, to protect citizens and towns along vulnerable coastlines that have experienced great destruction caused by tsunamis in the past. Now people are prepared and vulnerable areas are e…
The Inter-Agency Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction will be launching its 2004 version of “Living with Risk: A global review of disaster reduction initiatives ” on 14 July in New York. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland will present this new publication, coinciding with the UN Economic and Social C…
The International Day for Disaster Reduction will be celebrated on Wednesday 8 October at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, with the official opening of the photographic exhibition ‘WATER: Floods in Central Europe’. The exhibition - organised jointly with the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the United Nations - presents a collection of images…
As Ivan stormed across the Caribbean, the United Nations stated that Cuba was a model in hurricane risk management in developing countries. “The Cuban way could easily be applied to other countries with similar economic conditions and even in countries with greater resources that do not manage to protect their population as well as Cuba does” explained…
One year after this tragedy, the reconstruction process is slow and most of city’s inhabitants are still living under tents and provisional shelters. The Iranian Government has since hosted a number of conferences bringing together earthquake experts and has expressed its will to contruct new buildings which would be resilient to another disaster. Some…
Could you tell us what your lates book "Living in harmony with nature" is about?
This book is a compilation of my 38 years experience in disaster reduction, put in really simple words. It is a book for everybody who is dealing with building construction such as engineers, architects and sociologists. While working on the book, I wrote it in a way so th…