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Displaying 11 of about 11 resultsUNISDR and WMO started in May 2012 the joint implementation of the project 'Building resilience to disasters in the Western Balkans and Turkey'. The project is supported by the European Commission DG Enlargement through the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA). The beneficiaries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of…
Also known as 'Resilient Cities 2014,' this Forum is organized by ICLEI– Local Governments for Sustainability and the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, and co-sponsored by UN-HABITAT, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The…
UNISDR and WMO started in May 2012 the joint implementation of the project 'Building resilience to disasters in the Western Balkans and Turkey'. The project is supported by the European Commission DG Enlargement through the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA). The beneficiaries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of…
A meeting of the Ministers of Disaster Management and Emergency Situations of the Central Asian and South Caucasus countries will be held in 29-30 January in Bishkek hosted by the Government of Kyrgyzstan to discuss and agree on the Regional statement of the countries of Central Asia and South Caucasus on cooperation and coordination in the implementati…
Meeting Objectives:
1. Provide views on the SRSGs paper Proposed Elements for Consideration in the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, with a focused discussion on the enhanced system for monitoring progress.
2. Identify modalities for UN engagement in the preparations for and at the WCDRR.
3. Define areas where UN commitments will be sh…
The successor to the Hyogo Framework for Action will be agreed at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan in March 2015. The critical need for science and evidence and the need for a mechanism for international science advice for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) have been raised in many of the negotiations taking place ahead of the World…
Exploring the concept of resilience as a useful framework of analysis for how society can cope with the threat of natural and human induced hazards.
Despite resilience having been widely adopted in research, policy and practice to describe the way in which they would like to reduce our society’s susceptibility to the threat posed by hazards, there is l…
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Sesiones facilitadas por la UNISDR, FECAM y ULL, dará conocer Campaña Mundial Desarrollando Ciudades Resilientes de las Naciones Unidas, y consolidaría puntos de vista, opiniones y sugerencias del personal técnico, y de las Alcaldías de los municipios y Gobiernos Insulares, para el Marco post‐2015 para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres q…
UNISDR and WMO started in May 2012 the joint implementation of the project 'Building resilience to disasters in the Western Balkans and Turkey'. The project is supported by the European Commission DG Enlargement through the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA). The beneficiaries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of…
The Ministerial meeting, taking place within the context of an Informal Meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, allowed for Ministers from European Union Member States (Ministers of Interior and Justice) and, for the non-EU countries, the line Ministers represented at the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR), to exchange views tow…
The city of Tirana, in collaboration with the UNISDR Regional Office for Europe is organizing an expert meeting with local and national authorities involved in disaster risk reduction.
Tirana intends to celebrate its participation in the UNISDR "Making Cities Resilient" Campaign and increase the awareness of its citizens on the actions that have been u…