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Displaying 60 of about 75 resultsAs part of its mandate and advocacy efforts to raise awareness about the benefits of disaster risk reduction to save lives and reduce disaster impacts, the UNISDR Secretariat is organizing a media training on disaster risk reduction for French-speaking countries next the 6th and 7th of October in Tunis (Tunisia). This training follows a series of simila…
The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR11) – Revealing Risk, Redefining Development – is a major initiative of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) by monitoring risk patterns and progress in disaster risk reduction. Importantly, it provi…
The 2011 Global Assesment Report, entitled 'Revealing Risk, Redefining Development', is the leading UN publication on the status of global disaster risk today. The relevance of the Global Assessment Report has become painfully clear, against the backdrop of a number of major disasters, it provides an innovative analysis of the economic cost of such disa…
Organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme Regional Office for Arab Cities (UN-HABITAT Kuwait Office) and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Regional Office for Arab States (UNISDR Cairo Office), Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI), United Nations Development Programme Kuwait Office (UNDP Kuw…
A South Pacific regional writeshop to support developing country publications on Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change will be held next month in Suva, Fiji.
A call for applications is now underway for young scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and others from the South Pacific who are working in the field of climate change and dis…
The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR11) – Revealing Risk, Redefining Development – is a major initiative of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) by monitoring risk patterns and progress in disaster risk reduction. Importantly, it provi…
The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR11) – Revealing Risk, Redefining Development – is a major initiative of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) by monitoring risk patterns and progress in disaster risk reduction. Importantly, it provi…
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Objective
The International Recovery Platform (IRP) is mandated to address gaps in recovery issues. The International Recovery Forum 2011 aims to highlight the importance of pre-disaster recovery planning in response to the recommendations of governments during the International Conference on DRR in Shanghai, China, 27-29 July 2010.…
National media organizations play an important role in promoting national disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and programmes. To do so, however, they need to know what disaster risk reduction is about and to have established contacts with key DRR professionals who can provide them with accurate and timely information. At the same time, National Platf…
In 2010, in cooperation with the UN System, Montenegro conducted a national needs assessment on disaster risk reduction (DRR) that was discussed during a 3-day national policy dialogue where over 30 institutions were presented. The priority list of some 20 actions were agreed with a goal of strenghtening the DRR system in Montenegro. The 3-day working…
Scientific and technical knowledge on natural hazard risk remains critical for governments and partners to achieve the Hyogo Framework for Action and requires a broad framework of knowledge on the social, economic and political issues that bound disaster risk management.
The ongoing monitoring of progress and risk against the Hyogo Framework, as captur…
The workshop, in preparation of the Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction that will take place from 8-13 May 2011, Geneva, Switzerland, brought together experts on disaster risk reduction, aid tracking, aid effectiveness, climate change finance tracking and humanitarian aid tracking. The workshop provided the ground for identi…
The training is expected to enhance capacity of government officials for resilient recovery and empower them to better coordinate the post disaster long term recovery.
Official launch of the Mid-term Review of the HFA:
The Mid-Term Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 aims at critically analyzing the extent to which HFA implementation has progressed and at helping countries and their institutional partners identify practical measures to increase commitment, resourcing, and efforts in its further impleme…
The event commemorates the occurrence of the 2010 earthquake (February 27, one year after). 80 most affected municipalities from the regions of Bio-Bio, of Maule and of L.G.B. O'Higgins are invited to exchange their experiences.
The aim is to establish the maximum commitment by all stakeholders to accelerate the process of reconstruction including risk…