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Displaying 15 of about 76 resultsA review meeting of the EC funded project on 'Building Resilience to Tsunami', and looking forward to future work in the region. This meeting will involve partners and stakeholders implementing projects in the focus countries (India,Sri Lanka, Maldives & Indonesia). The forum will focus on sharing experiences, achievements, impacts and highlight su…
A series of recent catastrophic events have yet again reminded us of the degree to which disaster risk now threatens development across the world. While some progress has been made in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015 in past years, it is evident that much remains to be done at the international, national and community levels.
In th…
Background and context
The recovery from the May 27, 2006 earthquake, at Yogyakarta and Central Java is considered as a successful case within Southeast Asia. For three years, the recovery process has proceeded smoothly due to well-coordinated efforts of various actors, including national and local governments, local communities, and international orga…
This review aims at developing a common action plan that would facilitate public-private partnerships (PPP) for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in East Asia, based on an evaluation of PPP case studies and consultations with stakeholders.
Its outputs include: (i) a report of the current state of PPPs for DRR in East Asia including a list of companies and…
This paper produces a brief description of Sarez Lake formation and its modern conditions in Tajikistan, Central Asia. It outlines proposed actions to be taken to under the 'Lake Sarez Mitigation Project', including: Design and installation of a monitoring and warning system; Social training and safety related supplies; Studies to assess possible long-t…
This report is a summary of the discussions held during the 3rd African Drought Adaptation Forum September 2008 in Addis Ababa. The participants, members of the the African Drought Risk and Development Network (ADDN) recognized the need for exchange of experience on managing the risk of drought in various sub regions of Africa and focused on promoting a…
This document is the first DFID review of the ISDR’s regional offices which are based in Africa (Nairobi) and Latin America and the Caribbean (Costa Rica). The main purpose of this review is to evaluate: a) what impact and value-added the Strategy and Secretariat is having in the regions and how this impact is monitored; b) the relevance and appropriate…
This document presents a simple approach to elaborate a scenario regarding the potential impacts of a tsunami in a city exposed to such a hazard. The approach has been tailored to span eleven typical development sectors which are present in every city such as health, education, housing, life-lines, transportation, telecommunications, industry, governmen…
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human and economic and social losses.
A range of United Nations organizations and inter…
The Regional Office for Arab States of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat (UNISDR), The World Bank, The League of Arab States and the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport of the League of Arab States, are co-organizing a Regional Workshop on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: "Cha…
At the instigation of Senator Loren Legarda, UNISDR's regional disaster risk reduction champion for the Asia Pacific, the Philippines Senate set up a Committee on Climate Change which will be tasked with "climate and disaster risks management to reduce vulnerability associated with climate-sensitive areas and sectors." The nine-member committee will hav…
Goal: The Global Meeting of National Platforms Focal Points aims to contribute to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action through support to multi-stakeholder National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Specific Objectives
1. Provide a forum for National Platforms and selected HFA focal points to share information and knowledge in coordinating nati…
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Global Assesment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
Risk and poverty in a changing climate
Invest today for a safer tomorrow
The first edition of the biennial Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, launched in the Kingdom of Bahrain on 17 May 2009, offers government leaders and their advi…
The consultation meeting aims to review the regional joint priorities of the environment and disaster risk reduction communities, as well as the priorities of various bilateral and multilateral funding mechanisms that are available to support this area of work. The meeting is expected to identify key priority topics on which technical assistance activit…
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), Regional Office for Africa in collaboration with the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) with the support of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), have organized the West Africa sub-regional training workshop on risk assessment in Dakar, Senegal.
The wo…