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Displaying 15 of about 174 resultsRolling out early warning systems, boosting community resilience and better protecting economies and livelihoods in the Caribbean topped the agenda at the Comprehensive Disaster Management conference in Sint Maarten as the region grapples with the growing impact of climate change.
Event organizer - the Caribbean Disasters and Emergency Agency (CDE…
Inspiring individuals who reduce disaster risk
Do you know an inspiring individual who has helped build community resilience and reduced the risk of disasters? If yes, we’d like to hear from you.
The stories will be used in a new campaign called Faces of Resilience by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and GNDR.
We would like to tell…
BANGKOK – “Trusted, timely, accurate, simple and widely shared risk information saves lives, particularly when it reaches the last mile and is used by vulnerable communities”. This how the Chief of UNDRR’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Loretta Hieber Girardet, described the importance of risk communication in regional and national…
GENEVA - A serious shortage of medical resources was one of the main challenges which China had to overcome to stabilize the COVID19 outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei, where a mortality rate of 4.7% was recorded compared with 0.9% in the country’s 30 other provinces.
Since the first case was confirmed on December 31, 2019, China has had 81,960 confirmed cases…
GENEVA, 25 March, 2020 - Trace, test and treat. That sums up the strategy pursued by the Republic of Korea since it detected its first case of COVID-19 on January 20 and its first death on February 20, without imposing a lockdown.
The country has managed to keep its mortality rate at 1.4% compared to a global mortality rate of 4.34% despite an outbreak…
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, March 18, 2020 – As a result of the impact and uncertainty created by the spread of COVID-19, the Government of Jamaica, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) have decided to postpone the VII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in…
In an important step towards creating a more resilient region and better prepared to face disasters, the Government of the Republic of Haiti approved the National Risk and Disaster Management Plan 2019-2030, a result of an inclusive, multisectoral and participative process.
The recently approved plan calls for a resilient perspective in Haiti while pro…
Statement by the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, at the launch of IUCN's Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions
It is a pleasure to participate in this event to mark the launch of the IUCN’s Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions for Societal Challenges. It will a make a tremendo…
The Government of Jamaica, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) - Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) are pleased to announce that the VII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean will be held next year in 2021.…
Almost three months after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Americas and the Caribbean, data is showing how deeply the private sector has been affected, as some businesses are being forced to close while others are struggling to continue operating due to limitations in markets and supply chains.
Whilst the economic impact of the crisis is still…
UNDRR is issuing a new call for Expressions of Interest for individuals to be considered for the Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF) Expert Group in its second phase: Operationalization and Development of the Framework.
The GRAF seeks to understand and communicate the state of global risk and to facilitate an approach to reducing risk in support of…
As part of the development of the GAR 2022, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction is issuing a Call for Contributing Papers.
Deadline - 04 September 2020
The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. The GAR main report i…
Peer Reviewers for The Regional Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab Region (RAR 2021)
Objective:
The objective of this Call for Expressions of Interest is to set up a list of external experts – Peer Reviewers - for the review of the “Regional Assessment Report (RAR) on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab Region”. The report i…
The following statement is issued by the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, October 13
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to the importance of strengthening disaster risk reduction.
Many countries are facing multiple crises simultaneously. We will see more of this.
Extrem…
Since the tragedy of the 2015 earthquakes, Nepal has undergone a political and structural transformation in how it approaches disaster risk governance. This has resulted in the decentralization of authority to the lowest levels of government in an effort to build resilience from the ground up.
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is most effective when…