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16 September 2010 Sixteen UN country teams in West and North Africa examine ways to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change into development frameworks Geneva – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the ISDR secretariat at the United Nations (ISDR secretariat), and the United Nations…
UNISDR press release 2010/17 United Nations to release “Natural hazard fact sheets for Kenya” and draft “Training for Trainers” toolkit to strengthen disaster management in Kenya Nairobi – On 25 to 26 August, the UNISDR Regional Office for Africa will hold a pilot workshop on “Training of Trainers” in the Rift Valley Province to test a toolkit to “tra…
The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) organized a special event on European National Platforms in collaboration with UNISDR Europe, the Council of Europe European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement (EUR-OPA), the European Commission and UNESCO. The goal was to discuss experiences from European National Platforms (NPs). These need…
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PPRD South Programme press release - Much more than a Programme web site Today, 14 April 2010, the EU-funded Programme on Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Natural and Man-made Disasters (PPRD South) is officially launching its web portal. The portal is based on collaborative editing, with national civil protection authorities from each of the…
Dans 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…
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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…
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Closing date:
30 May 2010
The deadline has been extended from 23 May 2010 to 30 May 2010 Vacancy notice number: ISDR/C/17/2010 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-stak…
Vacancy
Closing date:
30 May 2010
The deadline has been extended from 23 May 2010 to 30 May 2010 Vacancy notice number: ISDR/C/16/2010 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 multi-disciplinary and multista…
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04 April 2010
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…
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Mobilizing, collecting and sharing information in crisis or risk situations, final report: This document reports on a project aimed at studying the dissemination, collection and use of health information in risk and crisis situations. The research was carried out in Geneva, Madagascar and Cameroon by a team of researchers from Geneva University and La…
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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…
UNISDR says tackling urban risk will help reduce poverty, at the launch of the IFRC’s World Disasters Report 2010 Geneva -- Tackling urban risk is everybody's business from national to local governments, community groups, professional associations and the international community and will help reduce poverty, said Helena Molin Valdés, Deputy Dire…
Durban - Maputo (Mozambique) and Overstrand Municipality (South Africa) are the latest local governments to join the World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Making Cities Resilient - My city is getting ready!” “Overstrand is full of natural beauty and rich in marine life. We are therefore signing up to preserve our environment,” said Theo Beyleveldt, Mayor…

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