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“Making cities sustainable and resilient: implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 at the local level” is a three-year initiative by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), supported by the European Commission…
Organisers
Lead: UNDRR
Co-Lead: GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Other participating organisations
Representatives from the Government of Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago
CAF - Latin America Development Bank
CDEMA - Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusamm…
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With the aim of increasing social demand and political commitment towards a resilient and sustainable national development that adapts to climate change, the Ministry of the Presidency of the Dominican Republic in coordination with the National Emergency Commission (CNE), led the closing of the "Capacity Building Training Workshop for Making Cit…
The workshop is the first regional meeting under the framework of the 2015-2016 DIPECHO Action Plan for the Caribbean.
Workshop objectives:
Strengthen the understanding of linkages between the goals and priorities of the 2015-2016 DIPECHO Action Plan for the Caribbean with global and regional frameworks for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Facilitate the joi…
Urban areas are central to the functioning of national economies and societies. They concentrate people, economic production, and decision-making institutions, but they can also result in a high concentration of vulnerability to climatic and geological hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, hurricanes and floods.
The highly urbanized nations of the…