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Displaying 15 of about 49 resultsACCRA, 17 December, 2019 - Young Gambian TV reporter and presenter, Jainaba Sonku, is one of a growing number of African journalists engaging in the struggle to reduce disaster risk and disaster losses across the continent.
She vowed to use her influential show Youth Dialogue on the country’s private channel QTV, “to bring the young people of Gam…
DECEMBER 12, 2019 - The 900,000 Rohingya who have fled the pogroms launched against them in Myanmar now live in 34 densely populated camps at risk of floods, landslides and cyclones in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Elephant watchtowers also dot the camps which lie in the middle of a major breeding ground for Asian elephants.
Two years after the main influx…
26 November 2019, Incheon – Ten officials from Kampala Capital City Authority’s (KCCA) various departments recently visited Incheon Metropolitan City to learn more from the city’s experience on disaster risk reduction and climate change policies and good practices.
Consolate Nakyagaba said, “Kampala joined the Making Cities Resilient Campaign in 2011 k…
MAPUTO, 11 September, 2019 - Reducing disaster losses in Mozambique were top of the agenda in Maputo today as the Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, undertook shuttle advocacy across the capital.
Her first port of call was to launch a two-day review with disaster management agency officials from INGC, of disaster loss da…
GENEVA, 16 May 2019 - The large-scale drop in disaster mortality in Bangladesh in recent times was due to a deliberate policy of promoting women's leadership in all sectors, a Special Session on Women Leadership was told yesterday at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Saber Hossain Chowdhury, a Member of Parliament in Bangladesh…
GENEVA, 13 May, 2019 - Heads of media and UN agencies met today in Geneva to discuss how public service media and worldwide print and radio media outlets can contribute to reducing disaster risk, saving lives and fulfilling their mandate to further the public good.
“Media outlets and global agencies play a critical role in alerting, informing and educa…
Bangkok – Considered one of the worst storms to hit eastern India since 1999, Cyclone Fani left behind a trail of destruction and as of 6 May took the lives of around 38 people in the state of Odisha, according to media reports. Odisha, however, is no stranger to cyclones. In 1999, a super cyclone killed 9,885 people according to the official…
KATHMANDU, 30 April, 2019 - Four years after an earthquake that could have killed thousands of schoolchildren ,a concerted effort is underway to ensure that every school in Nepal has introduced a basic earthquake safety programme.
The so-called Gorkha earthquake claimed 9,000 lives and destroyed 50,000 classrooms but, by a stroke of good fortune,…
Tel Aviv 12 March 2019 –More than 130 000 children have taken part in the first national tsunami simulation ever done with schools in Israel.
Jointly organized by Israel's National Steering Committee for Earthquake Preparedness and the Ministry of Education, the tsunami simulation involved schools located on the 271 kms of Israel coastlines consi…
ARISE Japan is hosting its fourth annual public symposium on 11 March 2019.
Japanese businesses have learned to put disaster risk front and center in terms of their business management as well as social responsibility in the three-decade-long “Heisei” era, which is set to end in early 2019. This symposium will explore the technology and social psycholo…
Duties and Responsibilities
The objective of this consultancy is to create content packages for PreventionWeb, the knowledge sharing platform on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience.
The consultant will develop, write and edit content for PreventionWeb under the editorial guidance of the managing editor:
• Research and draft thematic web pages,…
Duración: 16 meses.
Responsabilidades:
Dentro del alcance de la autoridad delegada, el consultora deberá ser responsabe de la implementación del proyecto de preparación ante los desastres ECHO (DIPECHO) “Implementando el Marco de Sendai para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres a través de evidencias que hacen la diferencia”.
El consulto…
Organizational Context & Project Description
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of efforts to reduce disaster risk and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nations and regional org…
The Africa Common Position to the 2019 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction presents an overview of DRR efforts in the region, including the progress of implementing the Sendai Framework as well as commitments by member states at the Global Platform 2019.
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The Words into Action (WiA) guidelines are designed to provide practical guidance on disaster risk reduction topics. The present guidelines are designed to support countries in developing a national disaster risk reduction strategy that is aligned with the Sendai Framework.
This guideline complements the ‘Words…