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Displaying 15 of about 17 resultsDans le cadre de son mandat de point focal pour le Cadre d’Actions de Hyogo (CAH) le secrétariat de la ONU/SIPC (UNISDR) appuie la mise en place et le renforcement des Plates-formes nationales pour la Réduction des Risques de Catastrophes (RRC). Le Sénégal et le Madagascar ont été choisis pour bénéficier d’un soutien à la mise en place de leurs Plates-f…
The writeshop will involve one-on-one work with mentors to provide supplemental training on academic writing and argumentation, in order to help new authors reach a standard of writing suitable for publication in peerreviewed journals. Sixteen participants will be selected.
The writeshop is one of two that will be held in Africa in 2011, and will be run…
This Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Educational Kit (NDRR) in Arabic has been developed with the view to enhancing the coping capabilities of disaster prone communities in the Arab States region as well as the dissemination of the technical knowledge in natural disaster reduction to build the capacities of educational institutions, students, and teache…
The United Nations National Strategy for Disaster reduction is coordinating the 2010-2011 World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Making Cities Resilient: My City is getting ready!”. The overall campaign goal is to achieve resilient, sustainable urban communities through actions taken by local governments to reduce disaster risk. The International Day for Di…
Vacancy number: ISDR/C/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 and economic and social risk and losses. A range o…
This publications focuses on 20 core countries with high vulnerability to natural hazards and low economic resilience to cope with disaster impacts including anticipated climate change and variability: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mozambique, Nepal, Panama, Papua…
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 associated environmental, human and economic and social risk and losses. A range of United Nations organizations and…
The deadline has been extended from 23 May 2010 to 30 May 2010
Vacancy notice number: ISDR/C/18/2010
Date of entry: 1 June 2010
Duration: Two months
United Nations Core Values:
Integrity
Professionalism
Respect for diversity
Background:
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multidisciplinary and multi-sta…
This publication is a compilation of good practices and lessons learned on early warning systems at different scales. Covered are natural hazards such as wildland fire, drought, floods, tsunami and extreme weather events. It highlights the importance of having an integrated approach on the relevance of community participation in planning and managing ea…
Egypt is launching the Egyptian participation in the 'Making Cities Resilient: My city is getting ready' world disaster reduction campaign 2010 with a media event on the international day for disaster risk reduction.
The event will include opening remarks and presentations and will follow with a press conference .Moreover, the occasion will then conclu…
Vacancy number: ISDR/C/07/2010
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 and economic and social risk and losses. A range o…
Vacancy number: ISDR/C/09/2010
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 and economic and social risk and losses. A range o…
Cette analyse institutionnelle des organes référents de la Réduction des Risques de Catastrophes à Madagascar et au Sénégal a été commandité conjointement par le Bureau National pour la Gestion des Risques et Catastrophes à Madagascar, la Direction de la Protection Civile au Sénégal, le Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement et le secrétariat…
United Nations Core Values: - Integrity - Professionalism - Respect for diversity
Vacancy notice number: ISDR/C/26/2010
Background:
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) was created by the UN in 2000 with the specific mandate to raise awareness about the need to reduce the risk of disaster. The UNISDR aims to promote disaster risk…
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable countries, communities and individuals increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human, economic and social losses. A range of United Nations o…