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Resilient Cities: Disaster Risk Reduction in an Urbanizing World
Highlights in a nutshell:
• Cities are engines for development, prosperity, innovation and hope, and therefore they will soon be home to two thirds of the global population. But they are also home to one billion poor people living in informal settlements…
Developing a roadmap for the roll-out of the campaign in Asia.
Vacancy number: ISDR/I/08/2010
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, economic and social risk and losses. A range of…
Vacancy ISDR/I/14/2010
United Nations Core Values: - Integrity - Professionalism - Respect for diversity
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multistakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associat…
10-07-ISDR-XB-G-4 (Recirculation - original closing date 23 March 2010)
Responsibilities:
General Administration
•Prepares processes and follows-up on administrative arrangements and forms related to the official travel of staff as well as participants sponsored by UNISDR, Sub-Regional Office in Kobe.
•Assist in the project planning, implementation, m…
Disaster Reduction Alliance forum 2010 "Five years since the adoption of the Hyogo Framework of Aaction - Progress on the implementation and Building resilient cities“
Member organizations of the Disaster Reduction Alliance (DRA) will hold various international symposiums and meetings as 15 year-anniversary events of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake…
This meeting includes a workshop on the Mid-Term Review Key Questions of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
Campaign advisory panel half day meeting (followed by half day field trip on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) sites within Hyogo Prefecture).
This collection of good practices shows how building the capacity of local institutions is key to sustaining disaster risk reduction, and demonstrates the immediate impact of local and national political commitments that institutionalise disaster risk reduction. It also showcases collaboration between local and national governments, civil society organi…