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Displaying 45 of about 123 resultsThis contributing paper presents a relational model of risk communication that synthesizes decades of research on risk cognition and related themes. The model is one that is well suited for disaster risk reduction practitioners, whether working in agencies, NGOs, or community organizations. The relational model reorients the task of risk communication t…
From the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to its global spread, the crisis has had negative impacts on individuals, communities, and societies, particularly on the most vulnerable people in the Global South. As a result, subnational governments in provinces, cities, districts, and communities find themselves on the front line of copi…
These studies supports the implementation of the Country Work Programme for the Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Barbados and Haiti, as well as the design and revisions of other critical national instruments including the National Adaptation Plan, Medium and Long-Term (National) Development Strategie…
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In this edition of Tsunami News, we explore examples of how governments and organizations around the world are increasing their levels of cooperation.
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Reduction identifies seven targets to be achieved by 2030, and UNDRR selected Target F as the focus for 2021. Target F is to “substantially enhance international co…
The City of Makati in the Philippines is named as the second Resilience Hub of Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) in the Asia-Pacific region on 27 September 2022.
Makati has already been recognized as a Role Model City of the MCR 2010-2020 initiative by sharing know-how and experiences for reducing disaster risk, building urban resilience with othe…
The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in Samoa under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence with key global frameworks and provides recommendations for strengthening dis…
The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in the Republic of Nauru under the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence with key global frameworks and provides recommendations for s…
This report forms the basis for stakeholder consultations to be held at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 between May 23rd-28th of May (GP22). The process includes several avenues for engagement of stakeholders.
This report includes inputs from 1) Open survey responses; 2) Outcomes of regional platforms for DRR; 3) Bilateral discussi…
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The seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction took place from 25-27 May 2022 in Bali, Indonesia. Preceding the Global Platform, on the 23 and 24 May the Third Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference and the World Reconstruction Confer…
This contributing paper examines the need to create new governing systems at the local level that allow actors and institutions to simultaneously manage the interplays of single and multi-hazards, multi-temporal, multiple dimensions of vulnerabilities, poverty reduction, unplanned urbanisation, environmental degradation and other residual risks. Th…
This contributing paper paper offers an analysis of the global COVID-19 experience and stepwise implementing consequences which will require a long-term effort involving scientists, decision-makers, and many more. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a stress test for global society, with implications that go beyond the field of global health risks.…
This contributing paper discusses the potential of the Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) Framework in promoting synergies in pursing risk-resilient sustainable development pathways via conceptual analysis of the key roles of health and Health-EDRM in the major international risk-resilient and sustainable development agendas of…
The disaster risk reduction status report provides a snapshot of the state of disaster risk reduction in the Federated States of Micronesia under four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
It also highlights progress and challenges associated with ensuring coherence with key global frameworks and provides recommendat…
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Called for by the UN General Assembly (ResolutionA/RES/75/216) the “midterm review of the implementation of the Sendai Framework (MTR SF)will assess progress in integrating disaster risk reduction into policies, programmes and investments at all levels, i…