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Displaying 120 of about 270 resultsA group of investors in partnership with UNISDR held an Entrepreneurial Finance Seminar on 25 October to provide Kenyan entrepreneurs with training on capital formation options in the over-the-counter market in the United States. These options are available to entrepreneurs in East Africa through reverse mergers and PIPEs (Private Investment in Public E…
NAIROBI 15 Oct 2010-- Nairobi is the latest city to join the World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Making Cities Resilient - My city is getting ready!”
The signing in ceremony was led by Pedro Basabe, Head of the UNISDR Regional Office for Africa and it took place on 13 October during the celebration of International Day for Disaster Reduction at the Koro…
UNISDR is launching a call for collecting "good practices" and lessons learned by cities/local governments, particularly for those local governments or partners that have already signed-up to the campaign or are in the process of doing so. Illustrative good practices from other contexts are also welcome.
The submissions will be made available online on…
Legaspi City, Philippines - Twenty Philippine Governors joined the Making Cities Resilient: My City Is Getting Ready! campaign at a summit of local government leaders from 4 to 6 November in Albay.
The Local Government Unit SUMMIT+3i has the theme “Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines.” Participants will discuss how climate change…
The powerful earthquake that struck Pakistan and India over the weekend proved again how important it is to build safe hospital and schools in disaster-prone areas. Many schools were damaged during the earthquake with the result that children were buried alive under the rubble.
Government officials from more than 80 Asian countries who gathered in Malaysia 2–4 December for a three-day Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, agreed to commit more resources to disaster risk reduction measures to better protect their countries against disasters.
Summary
Earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and China have provided stark reminders of the increasing disaster risk in urban areas. Smaller and more frequent disasters in communities around the world attest to rising vulnerability and insufficient capacity to cope with disaster risk at the local level.
The Mid-Term Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action 200…
Margareta Wahlström, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, asked governments and the private sector today to develop a new cooperative approach to reduce disaster losses.
“Governments, the private sector and donors need to team up to make cities and communities more resilient against disasters,” she said at…
Geneva, Switzerland – The UN’s agency for disaster risk reduction is calling on international lawmakers to take action on disaster risk reduction as a means to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and adapt to climate change.
UNISDR director Salvano Briceño presented an advocacy kit on disaster risk reduction to parliamentarians at the 123rd Assemb…
UNISDR today launched “Making Cities Resilient” campaign in Kuwait
Kuwait – Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, today officially launched the “Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready!” campaign in the Arab region, during an event in the margins of the General Assembly meeting of th…
On Wednesday, the UN General Assembly acknowledged in the outcome document of the 2010 MDG Summit the importance of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The outcome document, which includes an action plan for achieving the MDGs by 2015, was adopted by consensus on 22…
Mayors from around the world declare commitment to making cities resilient to climate change
Bonn, Germany –The Global Launch of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign, "My City Is Getting Ready," took place in Bonn on 30 May 2010, in collaboration with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and World Mayors Council on Climate Change in the framewor…
ECOSOC 2010/ New York
Highlights in a nutshell:
• Without appropriate investment in disaster risk reduction the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) achievements can be rapidly destroyed or slowly eroded by disasters caused by natural hazards.
• Disaster risk reduction makes eminent sense from an economic point of view. Countries that incorporate disast…
Dakar, Senegal - Parliamentarians from Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, the Gambia, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Togo, Kenya and Senegal, gathered for a ‘Consultative Meeting for West African Parliamentarians on Disaster Risk Reduction: An Instrument for Achieving Millennium Development Goals by 2015’ from 1-2 June 2010.
The Chair of the Parliamentarian Network on Dis…
Geneva, Switzerland – Local governments are showing their commitment to protect cities and citizens from natural hazards by signing up to a new global disaster risk reduction campaign.
Davos (Switzerland), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Santa Tecla (El Salvador) and Baofeng (China) are the latest to join the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction’s…