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Displaying 11 of about 11 resultsDuring the Education in Emergencies international conference being held in Panama, a celebration will be held on October 13th from 14:30, to mark international DRR day. This ceremony is being organized by ISDR, UNICEF TACRO, IFRC and Plan International, with the participation of over 17 government delegations from LAC, regional INGO offices based in Pa…
This monthly newsletter aims to highlight UNISDR activities around the world. This issue reports on: (i) the new global risk model planned by UNISDR and partners; (ii) Myanmar commitment to the Hyogo Framework for Action; (iii) Turkish quake highlighting building safety; (iv) floods and vulnerability in El Salvador; (v) children, workers hit by Asian fl…
The 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) was launched in Geneva, Switzerland on 10 May 2011. The Report provides hard-hitting evidence to demonstrate how, where and why disaster risk is increasing globally and presents key findings from a global analysis of disaster risk patterns and trends, including where high mortality and e…
This second biennial session of the Regional Platform for DRR in the Americas will focus on tendencies, achievements and ways forward surrounding DRR as an integral part of development processes at the regional, national and local levels.
Based on the findings of the 2009 sessions of the Regional Platform and subsequent Global Platform, the strategic ob…
By Dizery Salim
GENEVA, 2 November 2011 – Turkey’s 23 October quake revealed that only 9 per cent of building owners were insured despite it being mandatory in the country’s municipal areas.
Turkey’s main earthquake insurance authority says the low figure comes from having too few people with insurance in the affected region, citing lack of awareness,…
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…
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…
This is the 2nd edition of the Disaster Risk Management Program for Priority Countries, originally published by GFDRR in 2009. It now includes the country programmes missing in the first edition (Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, and Philippines, as well as an update of the DRM Country Program for Haiti (to take into account the impact of the January…
By Dizery Salim
GENEVA, 15 November 2011 – Countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum (APEC) have pledged to increase private sector engagement in their disaster resilience agenda, in a year when floods and earthquakes have wiped out assets worth billions of dollars across the region.
Four out of ten people live in the 21 APEC countries, producing 5…
The global launch of the Report will took place in Geneva on 10 May 2011 under the leadership of the United Nations Secretary-General and in the context of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, convened by UNISDR. UNISDR offered the New York audience a special briefing of this landmark publication.
The 2011 Global Assessment Report provides…
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, such as the Japan earthquake and tsunami in March, and of smaller, r…