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GENEVA, 18 December 2012 - The Italian Government is urgently seeking EUR 40 billion over the next 15 years for flood prevention following a week of heavy rains that began on 10 November in the north and then wreaked havoc in Umbria and Tuscany in central Italy. Italy's Environment Minister, Corrado Clini, recently presented a proposal to the country's…
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GENEVA, 26 November 2012 - An analysis of activity around last month’s high-profile International Day for Disaster Reduction shows that social media played a key role in sharing news and messages and engaging people to join in the celebrations with 27 million views of over 5,000 tweets on Twitter. The focus on the role of women and girls as a force for…
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GENEVA, 18 April 2012 - The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today launched a new initiative to support cities around the world to manage risk following the worst year on record for economic losses from disasters. It also announced today that over 1,000 cities have now joined its "Making Cities Resilient" Campaign. Campaign Director, Hele…
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GENEVA, 1 February 2012 - An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.” Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthqua…
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GENEVA, 18 July 2012 - UNISDR's 2011 Annual Report is now available online and reveals that its two landmark Global Assessment Reports on Disaster Risk Reduction Reports (GAR) for 2009 and 2011, have had over 200,000 chapter downloads over the last three years. It also demonstrates that, "despite some degree of unpredictability in its voluntary funding…
RIO DE JANEIRO, 21 June 2012 - The UK's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, used yesterday's UNISDR "Resilient Cities" event at Rio+20 to make an urgent appeal for scientists to use plain language if they are to play a larger role in policymaking on climate change. "The next fifteen years are really problematic. We'll have a billion more peo…
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The UNISDR Asia-Pacific Biennial Report, 2010-2011: The UNISDR Asia Pacific Regional Office (UNISDR-AP) seeks to constantly demonstrate the benefits of investing in disaster risk reduction and generate strong political support for actions at regional, national and local levels. This report focuses on achievements and outlines what is in store for the…
Vacancy
Closing date:
10 November 2012
Vacancy ISDR/C/26/12 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 of…
Vacancy
Closing date:
30 August 2012
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 of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nation…
Vacancy ISDR/I/04/2012 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…
Vacancy
Closing date:
10 July 2012
ISDR/C/16/2012 United Nations Core Values: Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity Background: Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction…
Vacancy
Closing date:
01 July 2012
Vacancy number: ISDR/I/03/2012 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 coordin…
Vacancy
Closing date:
03 July 2012
ISDR/IC/15/2012 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 of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of…
Vacancy
Closing date:
09 April 2012
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 of United Nations organizations an…
Vacancy
Closing date:
29 March 2012
Background This position is located in the Regional Office for Arab States of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. The incumbent reports to the Regional Coordinator and/or the Senior Programme Officer. Responsibilities • Participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of assigned programmes/projects; monitor…

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