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In 2018, as part of the “Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities” Programme, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and CIMA Research Foundation developed risk profiles for floods and droughts at the national level for sixteen African countries. The Country…
The Arab region joins the rest of the world in facing an increase in natural hazards. The region is characterized by its harsh environment and has limited resilience to natural hazards events, which results in an increase in the number of natural disasters in the region. These disasters result from a group of factors including the increase in population…
As part of its mandate and advocacy efforts to raise awareness about the benefits of disaster risk reduction to save lives and reduce disaster impacts, the UNISDR Secretariat is organizing a media training on disaster risk reduction for French-speaking countries next the 6th and 7th of October in Tunis (Tunisia). This training follows a series of simila…