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Vacancy Notice number: ISDR/G/13/2008
Date of entry: 1 March 2009
United Nations Core Values: Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
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…
Vacancy Notice number: ISDR/G/12/2008
Date of entry: 1 September 2008
United Nations Core Values: Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
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…
“The tragic series of natural hazards that has recently hit Japan reminds us that all countries, rich or poor, are subject to increasing threats from social vulnerability and natural hazards,” said Salvano Briceño, Director of ISDR, the UN secretariat in Geneva that focuses on disaster reduction. Japan suffered a record 10 landed typhoons this year kill…
When the Indian Ocean Tsunami hit in December 2004, over 250,000 people were killed throughout Asia, but only seven people died out of a population of approximately 83,000 on Simeulue Island, just 40km from the epicenter of the earthquake. Nearly the entire population of the island survived thanks to the people's inherited knowledge of tsunamis handed d…
The secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) stressed the importance of including climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies in the Bali talks on climate change that will start next Monday. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is convening the 13th session of the Confere…
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat is opening a new office, the “ISDR Hyogo Office” in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, to work more closely with Japanese institutions that have extensive experience and expertise in disaster risk reduction. Hyogo is a natural choice as a new location for an ISDR secretariat office, as it is a region at the…
Professor Yoshiaki Kawata from the Disaster Prevention Research Institute in Japan, and Tony Gibbs, a highly respected Caribbean engineer in building safety, have been selected as the two 2007 Sasakawa Laureates.
Professor Kawata, a prominent professor in the field of disaster risk reduction at Kyoto University, was awarded for his promotion of researc…
Ever increasing numbers of natural hazards (particularly as a result of earthquakes and floods) occur in the Middle Eastern and North African countries. More than 26,000 people were killed in 2003 in the Bam earthquake in Iran and another 2,200 died in the Boumerdes’s earthquake in Algeria. Several hundred of people suffered from severe floods between 2…
If Asia is still the continent most hit by disasters triggered by natural hazards, three european countries: Netherlands, Belgium and Ukraine rank among the top ten countries most affected by deadly disasters, according to the figures released today by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters in a press conference co-organised by the sec…
High level representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat, and Focus Humanitarian Assistance, an…
On the occasion of the International Day for Disaster Reduction, to be held on 12 October 2005, and to mark the International Year of Micro credit, the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is launching a global debate on how micro finance can reduce the impact of natural disasters on vulnerable communities.
The torrential rains that caused flooding and huge mudslides, resulting in over a hundred deaths in Central America and southern Mexico prove again that we need to be better prepared against what is the most destructive type of natural hazard in the world.
More than 140,000 hectares of forest and farmland have been destroyed in Portugal since the beginning of the summer affecting many households. The fires compelled the Portuguese Government to call on the European Union for help.
The 3rd International Early Warning Conference (EWCIII) will be convened by the Government of Germany under the auspices of the United Nations from 27 to 29 March in Bonn, Germany. It follows the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan, earlier this year and will be a contribution to the call by the UN Secretary General for global warning…
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…