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Displaying 15 of about 15 resultsThis document is the eighth in a series of special topics for consideration, as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment published by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction for the use of crowdsourcing as an approach to gathering information for risk assessment, which has benefits not only for…
Attaining the Sendai Framework Target ‘E’ on National and Local DRR Strategies
Nationally developed and adopted DRR strategies should provide a clear vision, guide the development of action plans, enable participation of all concerned stakeholders and enhance coordination within and across sectors.
The consultative workshop, being organized following…
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States (UNISDR ROAS) is organizing a 3-day workshop in Cairo (Egypt) from 13-15 March 2018. This workshop will bring together Arab member states to focus on training in the use of the recently launched Sendai Framework Monitor and the new Disaster Loss Accoun…
Background:
Overall, the workshop will focus on:
Using the Sendai Framework Monitor System including uploading and entering data, analytical capabilities of the system as well as levels of application (global, regional, national, local);
Reviewing Global (obligatory) and Custom (optional) Sendai Framework Indicators and links with SDG Indicators; a…
Background:
Overall, the workshop will focus on:
Using the Sendai Framework Monitor System including uploading and entering data, analytical capabilities of the system as well as levels of application (global, regional, national, local);
Reviewing Global (obligatory) and Custom (optional) Sendai Framework Indicators and links with SDG Indicators; a…
Background:
Overall, the workshop will focus on:
Using the Sendai Framework Monitor System including uploading and entering data, analytical capabilities of the system as well as levels of application (global, regional, national, local);
Reviewing Global (obligatory) and Custom (optional) Sendai Framework Indicators and links with SDG Indicators; a…
Background:
Overall, the workshop will focus on:
Using the Sendai Framework Monitor System including uploading and entering data, analytical capabilities of the system as well as levels of application (global, regional, national, local);
Reviewing Global (obligatory) and Custom (optional) Sendai Framework Indicators and links with SDG Indicators; a…
This document is the sixth in a series of special topics for consideration, as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment published by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction for non-specialists to some of the main concepts involved in data management for national risk assessments.
Data management is…
Job opening number: 17-Documentation and Information -UNISDR-80519-J-Geneva (O)
Org. setting and reporting
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 efforts to reduce disasters and to ensure synergies among the disast…
By Mami Mizutori, United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction
This month sees the beginning of a major effort by all U.N. member states to systematically collect data on everyday losses experienced as a result of natural or man-made hazards, as well as related environmental, technological and biological hazard…
By Mami Mizutori, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and the head of UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
This month sees the beginning of a major effort by all U.N. member states to systematically collect data on everyday losses experienced as a result of natural or man-made hazards, as well as related envi…
Brussels, 28 September 2018 - A unique city-to-city, disaster risk reduction peer review tool for cities in Europe and beyond has been finalized today.
The USCORE tool, the first of its kind, was developed under UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient campaign and funded by the European Commission. The two-year project to design the tool was a strongly collab…
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Cities are hubs of ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. At their best, cities have enabled people to advance socially and economically. Yet nowt heat hald of the world’s population lives in cities, making sutainable and resilient cities -amidst a chaning climate, rapid…
There is no economic loss data for 63 percent of the disasters recorded over the last 20 years
By Mami Mizutori, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction and the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
“It’s the economic loss, stupid!”
I would never actually say that to anyone - I am far too reserved. But s…
By Mami Mizutori
Twenty years after Hurricane Mitch claimed thousands of lives across Central America, it is now common practice for the countries of the Americas to come together every two years to discuss prevention and how to build resilience to extreme events, both weather and non-weather related.
On this occasion, they will gather in Cartagena, C…