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SUVA, 04 October 2017 – The Pacific region today challenged itself to make disaster risk reduction everybody’s business and convert one of the main calls for action of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction into an everyday reality. At the opening of the 2017 Joint Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Roundtable, i…
21 June 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - The Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, whose 79 members include some of the most disaster-prone and climate-vulnerable nations in the world, have prioritised the power of international cooperation to reduce the impact of natural hazards. At its meeting during the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Ri…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) emphasizes the necessity to strengthen competencies, management and implementation capacities at different governance levels as a necessary condition to progress in the reduction of disaster risk and associated loss at global, regional, and local level. Specifically recognizing the fundamental…
Hazard assessment and risk information are inadequate in many countries in Africa mainly due to the lack of capacity that results in a failure to inform decision-making processes. Risk information, as an output of effective monitoring, dissemination and analysis, is key to addressing disasters and disaster risks in the continent. This is not only consid…
Hazard assessment and risk information are inadequate in many countries in Africa mainly due to the lack of capacity that results in a failure to inform decision-making processes. Risk information, as an output of effective monitoring, dissemination and analysis, is key to addressing disasters and disaster risks in the continent. This is not only consid…
This session of the Local Climate Solutions for Africa (LOCS4Africa) Congress series will explore critical links between climate change and urban water and sanitation in Africa’s cities.  African cities, as diverse as large metro areas to small towns, are increasingly experiencing challenges of water security, drought and flooding. As such, t…
The Tenth Session of the Africa Working Group (AWG) is expected to make key recommendations to facilitate the implementation of the Programme of Action at all levels. It will also develop the Africa Common Position to be presented at the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 22-26 May 2017 in Cancun, Mexico, in line with the Decision of the…
NAIROBI, 31 May 2017 – Members of parliament from the six-nation East African Community have vowed to step up a drive to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in their region. The pledge came at the second edition of the East African Community (EAC) Parliamentarian Forum on disaster risk reduction held in Mombasa, Kenya. It will he…
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Leaders’ Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction The Cancun High-Level Communiqué – 24 May 2017 Ensuring the resilience of infrastructure and housing 1. A Leaders’ Forum was held on Wednesday 24 May 2017 in Cancun, Mexico, at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction chaired by H.E. Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, the President of Mexico with the participat…
Disaster risk reduction continues to gain momentum and recognition in Africa, given its irreplaceable role in achieving sustainable development and building resilience on the continent. This is evident from a broad range of steps taken at all levels, including at the policy level, since the Tenth session of the Africa Working Group on Disaster Risk Redu…
ISTANBUL, Turkey, 31 March 2017 – Local governments, strategic thinking and the economic bottom line are driving forces of efforts to curb the impacts of natural and human-induced hazards. Delegates at the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction put the focus on a 2020 target for having national and local risk strategies in place, set by the interna…
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2 February 2017, NEW YORK/GENEVA – The United Nations General Assembly today adopted a  resolution containing indicators for measuring global progress in reducing disaster losses. The same resolution also includes a comprehensive A to Z overhaul of terminology related to disaster risk reduction to guide policymakers and decision-makers working on…
Hazard assessment and risk information are inadequate in many countries in Africa mainly due to the lack of capacity that results in a failure to inform decision-making processes. Risk information, as an output of effective monitoring, dissemination and analysis, is key to addressing disasters and disaster risks in the continent. This is not only consid…
Following the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 last March 2015, and building on the outcomes and achievements of the Global Campaign on Making Cities Resilient, UNISDR along with UNDP in Tunisia and Mauritania submitted a project proposal for consideration by the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security (UNTFHS)…
Hazard assessment and risk information are inadequate in many countries in Africa mainly due to the lack of capacity that results in a failure to inform decision-making processes. Risk information, as an output of effective monitoring, dissemination and analysis, is key to addressing disasters and disaster risks in the continent. This is not only consid…

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