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Displaying 97 of about 97 resultsDAVOS, 29 August 2102 - Major roll-outs of UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient campaign in Austria and Iran were outlined yesterday at the 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference, in Davos, Switzerland, which has brought together experts from around the world.
Yesterday's plenary session on urban risks and resilience highlighted the experience of t…
The Nigeria Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and UNISDR organize a series of national and state level consultations for the Post-2015 Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction. The exercise begins with a literature review of the progress and lessons learned in implementing disaster risk reduction, followed by multi-stakeholder discussions of government m…
Government officials from Armenia, Cambodia, Gambia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia and Republic of Korea arrive in Incheon today for a five-day "Leadership Forum on Mainstreaming Adaptation and Disaster Reduction into Development." Over 30 officials from a variety of backgrounds will examine entry points for introducing disaster risk reduct…
A session organized to allow for Post-HFA consultations during the DRR sub regional platform co-organized by ECCAS and ISDR Africa. The conclusions of this first consultation were:
• Since some countries in Central Africa started the implementation of the HFA as late as 2009, it was recommended that the Post-HFA framework takes this in to account. It wa…
Le Département de l'Environnement du Ministère de l’Energie, des Mines, de l'Eau et de l’Environnement et le Bureau Arabe du secrétariat de la Stratégie Internationale pour la Prévention des Catastrophes (ONU-SIPC) ont organisé conjointement un atelier d’information et de sensibilisation pour la mise en place d’une Plate-forme Nationale pour la Réductio…
Vacancy ISDR/C/25/2012
United Nations Core Values:
Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
Background:
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination…
United Nations Core Values
Integrity • Professionalism • Respect for diversity
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multidisciplinary and multi stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human, e…