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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is the global blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR). Adopted at the Third UN World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in March 2015, it was the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda, with seven global targets and four priorities fo…
Background and Introduction
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 deple…
The event aims to raise awareness of the need to substantially reduce the economic losses caused by disasters. It will spotlight ongoing efforts to integrate disaster and climate risks into development, trade and financial systems.
The event – co-organized by UNCTAD, UNISDR and ITC - is part of the celebrations of the International Day for Disaster Red…
The Barbados Country Work Programme Workshop features presentations and workshops related to DRR with a special focus on the Country Work Programming process. Presentation topics include:
Comprehensive disaster management, results based management and the CDM Country Work Programming process
Performance monitoring and reporting -…
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 resources, and unplanned…
The second meeting of the Arab Coordination Mechanism for Disaster Risk Reduction of 2018 will be held from 12 to 13 September 2018 in Tunis, Tunisia. The meeting will be organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for the Arab States in cooperation and coordination with the League of Arab States and the Governme…
The sixth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2019) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 13 to 17 May, 2019, convened and organized by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and hosted by the Government of Switzerland.
The session will be co-chaired by Switzerland and UNISDR. It will represent the next impor…
About the Workshop
The “Strengthening Capacities on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Zhuhai” is a 1-2 day(s) intense capacity building and consultation activity organized by ICLEI East Asia, UNISDR ONEA-GETI, and Zhuhai Municipal Government to share knowledge, methodologies, tools, case studies as well as international collabora…
Background and Introduction
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 deplet…
Introduction
In recent years, the nature and effects of disasters have changed. The December 2004 devastating tsunami event in South Asia showed that well-developed risk awareness could have saved many human lives. Recent catastrophes such as the Myanmar cyclone and Sichuan earthquake in 2008, the typhoons in Taiwan, Philippines and Vietnam, the eart…
Background and Introduction
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is the global blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR). Adopted at the Third UN World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in March 2015, it was the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda, with seven global targets and four priorities for acti…
In Commemoration of the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR)
Friday October 19th, 2018, 13:30 to 15:00
Room XXV (Building E), Palais des Nations
Programme
12.30 Lunch and drinks provided by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea at Escargot Bar (3rd Floor, Building E)
13:30 Welcoming remarks by Her Excellency Mrs. Ji-ah Paik, A…
The High School Students Summit on World Tsunami Awareness Day 2018 is organized by the Japanese organizers (Wakayama Prefectural Government / Wakayama Prefectural Board of Education / Hirogawa Town / Hirogawa Town Board of Education), in cooperation with the UNISDR Office in Japan as the co-organizer, and the Government of Japan and other partners as t…
Promoting local actions in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the agriculture sectors
With the participation of debaters from:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Friday, 12 October 2018 (14.00-16.15 hrs.)
Room A 2.21, Bern University of Applied Science, Bern, Switzerland
Judgin…
SELA will hold the VII Meeting of Public-Private Alliances for Disaster Risk Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean: building resilient infrastructures, jointly with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (SRE), Cementos Mexicanos (CEMEX) and the Inter-American Conference on Soc…