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Displaying 90 of about 123 resultsRegional Webinar on Business Continuity to COVID19 through Business Resilience
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The COVID-19 pandemic presents us with opportunities to come out of it better and think about the mechanisms and systems of our businesses and our families. It is much better business to prevent than to cure. In the last 5 years, the region has seen an annu…
The series of eight (8) articles on “The COVID-19 pandemic and the systemic nature of risk” is intended not as a conclusive set of answers or solutions, but rather as a preliminary exploration and exposing of the challenges and questions that we are faced with in better understanding the systemic nature of risks and the possibilities afforded by new app…
BACKGROUND
Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. At their best, cities have enabled people to advance socially and economically. Yet now that half of the world’s population live in cities, making sustainable and resilient cities - amidst a changing climate, rapidly depleting resou…
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The COVID-19 crisis has been a lesson for many cities about planning for the unexpected. Adding to climate and man-made disasters, the pandemic has put high stress in urban systems around the world. Only in the past 6 months, Australian cities have dealt with multiple disasters, from wildfires, flooding, and the recent Coronavirus pandemic.…
Resilient and Inclusive Cities
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The current context derived from Covid-19 has revealed the inequitable reality of the cities in the region. Unplanned urbanization processes have generated inequality and exclusion in our cities. This is translated into the difficult advancement in development matters and the impossibility of guaranteein…
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Recognizing the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic in relation to the global outbreak of the COVID-19, UNDRR calls for disaster management agencies to give priority to biological hazards. Events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Ebola epidemics and Zika virus outbreaks underline how important…
Whether refugees living in overcrowded camps or jobless migrant workers forced to return home, the lives of millions of people in Asia-Pacific are threatened by the dangerous combination of displacement and the COVID-19 pandemic. Congested settlements, inadequate access to healthcare, lack of information, stigma and discrimination are just some of the i…
Although COVID-19 doesn't discriminate, its impact does. Throughout the Asia-Pacific region, older people, persons living with disabilities, caretakers and the poor have a greater risk of getting infected and developing severe complications. This webinar focused on the early lessons and good practices that are emerging in the region on how to identify a…
Hosted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Regional Office for Africa, African Union Commission, and Partners for Resilience. The webinar will be held in English.
Objective: Discuss emerging issues relating to Disaster Risk Reduction/and Increasing vulnerability from COVID 19 Impacts; Offer Recommendations and learning on how…
Trusted, accurate, simple, and widely shared risk information saves lives, particularly when it reaches ‘the last mile’ and is used by vulnerable communities. This is the case in all communities, all countries and all disasters, including during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
However, several weeks into this global crisis, it is also clear that a ‘paral…
Event Background and Introduction
Over the past 20 years disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage and killed 1.3 million people. Disasters affected people living in developing countries and the most vulnerable communities within those countries. Over 95 percent of people killed by disasters are from developing…
COVID-19 pandemic has had a worldwide effect and the Arab states region has not been immune to it. The widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates the systemic nature of risk. Countries in the region have undertaken timely actions to contain the virus and respond to its threats on the public health system and the broader economy. However, the…
Course Objectives
This short online course is conducted under the auspices of the Singapore-UNDRR Joint Training Programme. It examines key principles of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and the hardcoding of resilience into policy, implementation action and human behaviour. Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 global pandemic that demonstrations the…
On behalf of United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Africa, the African Union Commission (AUC) and the Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale (CIMA) Foundation we are pleased to invite you to the second webinar in the series entitled Using risk information and disaster risk profiles to inform DRR and deci…
English and Spanish Interpretation available!
Millions of people are falling back into poverty each year due to shocks ranging from both localized severe weather to major disaster events including drought, floods and storms and, as demonstrated by COVID-19, pandemic and epidemic disease.
Environmental changes driven by climate change and unsustainable…