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Government of Israel
Participants
National Sendai Framework Focal Point Ministry’s covering from Europe and Central Asian region, IHR Focal Points from Ministry of Health Europe and Central Asian region.
Timing and objective
The world is facing an unprecedented challenge with th…
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on businesses across Asia-Pacific. Many are closed while others are struggling to maintain operations while ensuring the safety of their workers. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) - which comprise more than 90% of all businesses in most Asia-Pacific countries- are especially hard hit. This web…
The main objective of the webinar is to discuss the lessons learned in responding to COVID-19 by Arab cities and facilitate a city-to-city exchange among local governments on effective emergency preparedness and response that is sensitive to biological hazards. The webinar will discuss the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, context-specific and rap…
Orientation to Local Level Disaster Risk Reduction and Making Cities Resilient (in English, French and Portuguese)
Looking beyond 2020, the MCR Campaign successor “Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)”, to be launched at the end of 2020, aims to strengthen support to cities on their journey to reduce risks and build resilience. It is important that c…
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The objectives of this webinar are to provide a broad understanding of the IOC-UNESCO Tsunami Ready program and to discuss the challenges, gaps, and needs to implement the Tsunami Ready indicators in Indian Ocean Island States. The topics will cover but are not…
Thursday, 5 November 2020
16:00 Victoria / Port Louis | 15:00 Nairobi / Antananarivo | 13:00 Yaoundé / Abuja | 12:00 Abidjan / Dakar |
Duration: 1.5 hours / Interpretation: French-English
Register here: https://undrr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cK5ILAo9RbKMT1mYdjay2A
BACKGROUND
Tsunamis are, thankfully, rare event…
Thursday 5 November 2020 12:00 to 13:00 CET
Co-hosted by HE Ambassador Emilio Izquierdo, Chair of UNDRR Support Group and SRSG Mami Mizutori with the kind support of the Government of Japan
BACKGROUND
Tsunamis are, thankfully, rare events, but they do happen. They are often more sudden and deadly than any other hazard, claiming thousands…
Date: 27 July, 2020
Time: 13:00 GMT, 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 16:00 EAT
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Objective:
The webinar will provide a platform to share information on COVID-19 preparedness, response and recovery efforts with a focus on lessons learned, good practices, challenges and experiences in fragile contexts. E…
Second virtual meeting of the Africa Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction: Progress and next steps to strengthening support to Member States to effectively prepare, respond and recover from COVID-19 and other hazards
Thursday, 22 October 2020, 14:30 p.m.-17:00 p.m. (Addis Ababa/Nairobi time)
Duration: 2:30 hours
Language: English a…
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EVENT DESCRIPTION AND OUTCOMES
Most of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050. Cities will be the frontlines to avoid the creation of new risk, reduce existing risk and strengthen resilience, including risks from health emergencies. Over the past ten years, the Making Cities Resilient Campaign has adv…
Date: 30 September 2020
Time: 1 – 3 pm Nairobi|12 – 2pm Cape Town|11am - 1pm Abuja
Link to the webinar: https://undrr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zksIltrOSzmV6rwxC29ICg
Language: English, French and Portuguese available
More than one half of the world’s population lives in urban areas, most of which are predisposed to natural and human-made hazard…
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(Deadline for registration:
13 Nov 2020)
About the course
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 have affected people living in developing countries and, in particular, the most vulnerable communities within these coun…
General Objective
To increase capacity for national and local DRR strategy, plan development, monitoring and implementation by obtaining knowledge on policy frameworks, institutional and stakeholder collaborations and implementation approaches, including learning from COVID-19
To strengthen the institutional capacity of the national disaster…
The COVID-19 situation confirmed the close link between health and disaster risk reduction and has forced us to pay better attention to the health aspects of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030.
In 2016, Thailand hosted an international conference on the health aspects of the Sendai Framework which resulted in the “Bang…
Webinars Series: Climate Change and Resilience in times of COVID-19
2. How to articulate Integrated Responses to the Health, Economic and Climate Crisis in LAC
Context:
In the context of increasing complexity, interdependence and systemic nature of risk, there is a need for multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder and regional coor…