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Displaying 120 of about 379 resultsGENEVA, 29 July 2013 – The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and partners today launched the first-ever survey of people living with disabilities on their coping capacity in the face of a disaster event. Margareta Wahlström, head of UNISDR, said today: “The survey will focus on a major blind spot in disaster management, the needs of the one…
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…
Colloque organisé par le WWF France en partenariat ave l’UNESCO, l’UNISDR et l’AFPCN et avec le soutien du MEDDTL, de l’EPL, de l’ EPTB Seine Grands Lacs et de l’AFEPTB.
Pakistan, Australie, Etats-Unis, France : les inondations récentes, de plus en plus impressionnantes, ont marqué les esprits. Que faire ? De toute évidence, les réponses classiques pou…
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UNICEF, a solicitud de la Coordinadora Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana - CECC/SICA, presentó en el VI Plan de Acción DIPECHO en Centroamérica el proyecto: “Fortaleciendo Alianzas para Asegurar el Derecho a la Educación en Situaciones de Emergencia en Comunidades Vulnerables de Centroamérica”, que busca entre otros objetivos contr…
La Radionovela: Tiempos de Huracanes fue desarrollada con el objectivo de fomentar una cultura de gestíon de riesgo a través de radiodifusión y ofrecer una herramienta novedosa para los procesos de capacitación en materia de desastres.
La presente guía pretende facilitar la labor de capacitación proporcionando orientaciones didacticas y técnicas para l…
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.
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El video muestra como niños de escue…
This first publication in the series deals with disaster preparedness and response focusing on earthquake, drought, flooding, extreme heat and drought.
"Friends Power" is a series of health education comic stories developed for children. It aims to build the knowledge, attitude and skills of children on selected health topics such as natural disaster p…
UNISDR Africa educational series, vol. 4, issue 1:
This booklet targets primary school children to sensitize them to the causes, impacts and mitigation of coastal and marine hazards, such as cyclone, tsunami, storm surge and flood, as well as other natural hazards such as drought, oil spill, ‘red tide’ and ‘brown tide’, and city fire.
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…
GREAT BAY, Sint Maarten (DCOMM) – The Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport (MECYS) will be hosting the Third Caribbean Safe School Initiative (CSSI) Ministerial Forum from June 28 – 30, 2022.
This event was originally planned for 2021, but due to developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it had to be postponed, but in its place, a virtu…
Mami Mitzutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), visits Mexico's Chiapas state on Monday to see how an earthquake-destroyed village is rebuilding and how community projects are boosting resilience in the c…
2009 Sasakawa award call for nominations now open
Nominations are now open for the 2009 Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction. Nominees should be individuals and institutions from around the world who have contributed to building the resilience of nations and communities to natural hazards through innovative practices and outstanding initiatives. Nomin…
Investing in resilience - accelerating the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the Americas:
A declaration in which the participants of the Regional platform for disaster risk reduction in the Americas acknowledge the work being developed in the region surrounding disaster risk reduction, as guided by the principles and priorities set o…
This study presents African experience with disaster risks and natural hazards during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) and discusses drought mitigation measures in rural areas and flood risk reduction activities in unplanned urban settlements. It addresses food insecurity, social vulnerability and economic aspects of disas…
This report presents France’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, cyclone, avalanche, earthquake, landslide, volcano and wild fire, and discusses institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR). It provides an evaluation of country’s DRR national policy and describes progress made in forecasting and early warning syste…