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As part of the MCR2030 Digital Resilience Webinar Series, the third and last webinar of the series will focus on how policy makers can harness the emerging opportunities of digitalisation, as well as the large offer of tools and resources available, to support municipal and institutional governance and urban pl…
Lesotho is a small, landlocked country in Southern Africa that has a high risk to natural hazards including floods, drought, frost, strong winds, and heavy snowfall. In response to an official request received from the Bureau of Statistics of Lesotho, a National Workshop on Climate Change and Disaster-related Statistics was held in Maseru, Le…
This report examines significant and specific gaps in long-running disaster impact data sets which skew our knowledge about global patterns and trends. The report identifies substantial variability in the same impact measurements – including the key metric of mortality – across global databases. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, storms and flooding bec…
This briefing note aims to promote and explore ways that digital public goods can support disaster risk reduction. It starts by providing a series of definitions and historical context, before delving into the prevailing trends and opportunities that promote the use of open resources to support disaster risk reduction. The growth of the disaster and cli…
Everyone has a role to play in harnessing the power of data for public good. This Data Strategy identifies those roles and the opportunities to use data in reducing disaster risks and losses. It spells out how UNDRR, its partners and stakeholders can access, analyse and share data for risk-informed sustainable development, and climate and humanitarian a…
Effective climate change action entails understanding the climate science, as well as the increasingly volatile and intense hazard events that are changing the vulnerability and exposure of people and ecosystems to potential future disaster risks. This was the background for the staging of the Climate Science Information for Climate Action Regiona…
This guideline has been prepared by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) to provide guidance to stakeholders on how to use the Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform.
It provides contextual information about voluntary commitments as mandated by the UN General Assembly to monitor and keep track of non-stat…
This is event is by invitation only. If you/your organizations is interested to contribute please e-mail: undrr-bonn@un.org. If interested to listen in the discussions, the workshop plenary sessions will be broadcasted in UNDRR YouTube channel. Please use this link from the date of the workshop. BackgroundUnderstanding the extent and magnitude of d…
These guidelines and tools provide the necessary know-how to develop and strengthen a policy basis for DRR and risk-informed development. The present guidance provides pathways for climate information that is scientifically sound and publicly available. Ultimately, by accessing the best available up-to- date climate information, planners, risk managers…
Date and time: Thursday 19 January 2023, 10:00am – 11:30am CET
Register: https://undrr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rHARRvEKTxa56pRT88fzSg
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As part of the MCR2030 Digital Resilience Webinar Series, the second webinar on Implementing Digital Resilience aims to support Ukrainian cities to consider how to use digital technologies and innovatio…
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The EFDRR Roadmap Action-Oriented Dialogue on "Understanding and communicating existing and future risks: ensuring evidence-based communication" took place from February 23 – 24 at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest. It brought together high-level political representatives and technical experts from the region to share knowledge, expe…
European governments must include effective risk communication in their disaster risk reduction plans, making science-based information more understandable to more people, leaders agreed at a two-day meeting in Bucharest last week.The recent COVID-19 pandemic and climate change crises have shown how misinformation and disinformation can spread fast thro…
BUCHAREST, 21 February – Risk communication that is trusted, accurate, simple, and reaches everyone at-risk is critical to saving lives and protecting livelihoods. Experience with COVID-19 and other disasters shows that - to build societal resilience - risk information must be understandable and accessible to all.
This and other lessons are set to be d…
Ethiopia is severely affected by climate related hazards. Since 2020, the country has faced prolonged drought resulting from consecutive failed rainy seasons, generally happening in the northern, southeastern, and southern parts of Ethiopia. The current drought impacts approximately 24 million people, including more than 11 million people who are in nee…
1 June 2023, The UNDRR Regional Office for Arab States, in collaboration with the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) in UAE, conducted a dynamic four-day workshop focused on the Sendai Framework Monitor and Disaster Loss Accounting System. With a strong emphasis on data-driven decision-making and Sendai Framework impleme…