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Displaying 15 of about 448 resultsUNDRR report published to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, 2020, confirms how extreme weather events have come to dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century. The statistics in this report are from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Di…
Rolling out early warning systems, boosting community resilience and better protecting economies and livelihoods in the Caribbean topped the agenda at the Comprehensive Disaster Management conference in Sint Maarten as the region grapples with the growing impact of climate change.
Event organizer - the Caribbean Disasters and Emergency Agency (CDE…
UNDRR is issuing a new call for Expressions of Interest for individuals to be considered for the Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF) Expert Group in its second phase: Operationalization and Development of the Framework.
The GRAF seeks to understand and communicate the state of global risk and to facilitate an approach to reducing risk in support of…
As part of the development of the GAR 2022, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction is issuing a Call for Contributing Papers.
Deadline - 04 September 2020
The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster risk. The GAR main report i…
Inspiring individuals who reduce disaster risk
Do you know an inspiring individual who has helped build community resilience and reduced the risk of disasters? If yes, we’d like to hear from you.
The stories will be used in a new campaign called Faces of Resilience by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and GNDR.
We would like to tell…
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Build Back Better: building resilient health infrastructure and supply chains.
What have we learnt from COVID-19?
Statement by Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
17th December 2020
Dr P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India,
Dr. Zsuzanna Jakab,…
The American University in Dubai is organizing a special lecture led by Ms. Mami Mizutori, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction on Disaster Risk Reduction for Business Resilience: Why bother?
University Background: The evolution of the American University in Dubai began as a fact-finding mission in 199…
Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) is an initiative led by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and its partners to support cities in taking action to reduce disaster risk in alignment with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. Launched in October 2020 and operational in January 2021, MCR2030 emerges from a decade long of…
With the deadline for achieving Target E of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 just around the corner at the end of 2020, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) presents this report as an overview of the status of countries’ progress towards this target. This report covers progress made by Member States fro…
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EVENT DATE, TIME, VENUE
Date: 9 December 2020 (Wednesday)
Time: 10 AM - 5:30 PM Seoul/Incheon, GMT+9
Venue: Virtually (Seoul On & Youtube)
EVENT LANGUAGE
English (Korean simultaneous interpretation will be provided).
EVENT DESCRIPTION
Urban safety is a fundamental valu…
Webinar Recording
EVENT DESCRIPTION
From 2010 to 2019
Since its founding in 2010 with the support of the Ministry of Interior and Safety (MOIS) and Incheon Metropolitan City of the Republic of Korea, a small team at the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction office in Incheon for Northeast Asia (ONEA) and Glob…
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Remarks by Ms. Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
High-Level Launch of the “2020 State of the Climate Report”
13 October 2020
Prof. Petteri Taalas,
Fellow speakers and participants,
Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you on this special day for…
MESSAGE OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR WORLD TSUNAMI AWARENESS DAY, 5 NOVEMBER
We live in a multi-hazard world where risk is systemic and embedded in the very fabric of human development.
Currently we are struggling with what some describe as a tsunami of death and disease due to COVID-19.
This metaphor comes easily because living me…
UNDRR, African Union Commission, and CIMA webinar series:
Using risk information and disaster risk profiles to inform DRR and decision making: the road map for improving the availability, access and use of disaster risk information for Early Warning and Early Action and in support of the DRR agenda in Africa.
4th and final webinar:
The methodolo…
The United Nations General Assembly has designated October 13th as the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction to promote a global culture of disaster risk reduction. It is an opportunity to acknowledge the progress being made toward reducing disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster R…