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Displaying 285 of about 367 resultsEl presente documento ofrece una visión resumida y consolidada, a partir de la información disponible en la Guía de Orientación Técnica, de los requisitos mínimos de los datos necesarios para medir el logro de cada meta, con el objetivo de proporcionar a los países un apoyo metodológico para la recopilación de los datos que requiere el sistema de monito…
The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) report provides a snapshot of the latest DRR progress Papua New Guinea (PNG) has achieved under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework. It also highlights some of the key challenges surrounding the issue of creating coherence among the key global frameworks at the country level; and makes recommendations for str…
The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) report provides a snapshot of the latest DRR progress the Philippines has achieved under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework. It also highlights some of the key challenges surrounding the issue of creating coherence among the key global frameworks at the country level; and makes recommendations for strengthen…
Duración: 17 meses.
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El consultor para la elaboración de material de visibilidad brindará apoyo técnico para la elaboración y diseño de materiales en el marco del proyecto DIPECHO “Implementar el Marco de Sendai para la RRD (reducción del riesgo de desastres) a través de evidencias que hacen la diferencia” y la ejecución de la E…
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Establishment of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure and progress in implementation
Expected duration
6 months (subject to extension)
Duties and responsibilities
1. Support to the development of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure:
Coordinate the advisory committee of experts overseeing the devel…
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The consultants will provide technical support on disaster risk reduction to the Secretariats of The East African Community (EAC), The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). This will strengthen disaster ris…
GENEVA, 17 May, 2019 - “If investors do not address disaster risk properly, their business performance will be directly affected,” stressed Sandra Wu, Board Member of UN Global Compact. “They have to understand that if they do not incorporate risk-informed investments, they will lose their business.”
This is the main message of the very well-attended t…
GENEVA, May 15th 2019 The world faces new, emerging, and much larger threats than ever before, linked to climate change, environmental degradation, and the growing potential for one disaster to produce or exacerbate another, says a new report from the United Nations.
The Global Assessment Report 2019 (GAR2019) published by the United Nations Office for…
GENEVA, 14 May 2019 - The Asia-Pacific region is making progress in reducing disaster mortality, but high economic losses from disasters point to a need for governments to accelerate the implementation of the disaster risk reduction strategies they have developed.
This was the state of progress the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) provid…
GENEVA, May 14, 2019 - The 2nd Multi Hazard Early Warning Conference closed today with a strong focus on the role that governance must play in ensuring the effectiveness of early warnings and underlined the importance of collaboration when making the switch from single hazard to multi-hazard warnings.
The challenge of doing this effectively was un…
GENEVA, 13 May, 2019 - Inclusion matters. The phrase turned into a hashtag today as the theme of inclusion constantly raised its head in the 4th World Reconstruction Conference, the 2nd Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference and the Science and Policy Forum which all got underway today as part of the build up to the opening of the Global Platform for Dis…
KATHMANDU, 26 April, 2019 - Despite the three tremors felt across the Kathmandu Valley mid-week as Nepal prepared to mark the 4th anniversary yesterday of the deadly Gorkha earthquake, scientists say that Kathmandu is not the country's most-at-risk location for earthquakes.
The UN Country Team in Kathmandu is looking to the future management of d…
KATHMANDU, 25 April 2019 - An estimated 612,000 families are living in transitional shelter four years after the devastating earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, killing 9,000 people, injuring 22,000 and destroying or damaging almost one million houses.
As though heralding the anniversary, three strong tremors were…
Bangkok, 5 April 2019 - Australia will host the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR), 23 to 26 June 2020 in Brisbane, in partnership with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Asia-Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world and includes seven of the ten countries with the highest num…
NEW DELHI, 20 March, 2019 - Agreement was reached today among experts and representatives from 33 countries to establish a Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) against the backdrop of the destruction of the Mozambique port city of Beira, home to 500,000 people.
“The loss of life and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people…