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Displaying 10 of about 10 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…
Background
Asia as a whole accounts for over 60% of the world’s population and accounts for 87 percent of disaster casualties worldwide. People, communities, and even governments in disaster-prone countries still are ill-prepared for addressing or coping with disaster risk or vulnerabilities.
In the first nine months of 2008, disasters across Asia and…
Organizational Setting and Reporting Relationships:
Under the overall guidance of the Head of the Regional Office Support Coordination Unit for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction secretariat (UNISDR) and reporting to the Coordinator for the UNISDR Asia and the Pacific, the Regional Programme Officer will contribute to the implementation o…
Progress of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and recovery from tsunami and earthquake, 16 January 2007, International Conference Center, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
On January 16, the Experts Meeting was organized to verify the progress made in recovery efforts implemented in tsunami- and earthquake-hit regions and to come up with concrete m…
The first meeting of the IAP in 2009 will focus on preparations for the Second Session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction, which will be held in Geneva Switzerland in June 2009. In addition the meeting will include talks on the follow-up action to the Third Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, which called on the ISDR…
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), together with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), will hold an awards ceremony and exhibition for a regional drawing competition entitled "Safe Hospitals – Hospitals i…
This thematic review report on urban risk reduction in Asia was prepared by the Asia Regional Task Force on Urban Risk Reduction (RTF-URR) in the context of progress review in the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action. It reviews the status of urban risk in Asia and also compiled an inventory of initiatives on urban risk reduction and analyse…
This symposium report focuses on mitigation strategies for tsunami disasters, tsunami warning systems and historical and pre-historical tsunamis associated with earthquakes in the Indian Ocean. The results of the project, upon which this symposium was based, have enabled the transfer of the methodologies and techniques employed in sedimentation surveys…
This study makes a comparative analysis of 15 cities in the Asian region, including some megacities, medium sized cities, and smaller cities, in their capacity to absorb stress, to manage it and recover from it. The scope of this study is limited to climate-induced disasters (hydro-meteorological disasters) such as cyclone, flood, heat wave, drought and…
Asia and the Pacific is the most susceptible region in the world to the natural hazards, and being the most populous region in the world, it experiences enormous losses to lives, livelihoods, social and economic assets in natural disasters, reversing the region’s economic and social development drastically. For example, in the first nine months of the y…