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In person
13 December 2018 - 14 December 2018
Bangkok
Attaining the Sendai Framework Target ‘E’ on National and Local DRR Strategies Nationally developed and adopted DRR strategies should provide a clear vision, guide the development of action plans, enable participation of all concerned stakeholders and enhance coordination within and across sectors. The consultative workshop, being organized following…
Background 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, an…
  INTRO   Strengthening Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilient Cities in Ningbo is co-organized by the ICLEI – Local Government for Sustainability and UNDRR ONEA-GETI, to introduce the cutting-edge knowledge, theory, tools, cases and international platforms of disaster risk reduction and resilient cities to relevant department…
The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR11) – Revealing Risk, Redefining Development – is a major initiative of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) by monitoring risk patterns and progress in disaster risk reduction. Importantly, it provi…
In person
15 October 2012 - 19 October 2012
Victoria Falls
During AMCOMET one session will be co organised by WMO and UNISDR on Climate services and DRR The AMCOMET Panel Discussion entitled, 'Weather and Climate Services in Support of Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa' aims to link weather and climate knowledge to disaster risk reduction decision making process and discuss how to improve weather and climate pr…
The Understanding Risk conference asks 'What is risk? Can we measure it? If we understand it, can we manage it better?' The Understanding Risk: Innovation in Disaster Risk Assessment conference will address these important questions concerning disaster risk assessment. The Understanding Risk conference will focus on innovation in the disaster risk asses…
Event Date & Veue Date: 26-27 September 2022 Venue: Songdo Convensia, Incheon, Republic of Korea Language: English Event Description Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)  is a 10-year global collaboration that supports cities around the world to strengthen their climate and disaster resilience. Aiming to Leave No Municipalit…
Webinar Recording     Event Description This webinar aims to introduce the ISO 37123 – Indicators for Resilient Cities, published in 2019 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 37123 is the first international standard designed to build globally standardized data for city resilience. It is applicable to any city…
Objective   This webinar intends to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, focusing on Northeast Asia regional cooperation for technology application for disaster risk reduction. It will profile good practices and lessons from China, Korea, and Japan to leverage frontier technologies to ensure resilience and mitigate disaste…
Webinar on the Comprehensive Climate and Disaster Risk Management and introduction to the training that follows in 2022. Date: Friday December 17th Time:  10:00-11:30 Caribbean Time (AST)   This webinar aims to provide an overview of the comprehensive climate and disaster risk management (CRM) and to introduce a course to capacitate pa…
Registrarse Aquí ¿POR QUÉ HACER ESTE CURSO? En el contexto actual de presiones crecientes sobre las comunidades, este programa busca facilitar la adquisición de conocimientos y herramientas, el aprendizaje y apoyo mutuo entre responsables de políticas públicas y profesionales técnicos para desarrollar estrategias de reducción de riesgo de desastres e…
Background and Introduction   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 affected people living in developing countries and the most vulnerable communities within those countries. Over 95 percent of people killed by disasters are from developing count…
Registration CLOSED Date, Time and Venue   Date: 23 - 25 June 2021 Time: 13.00 - 17.00 hours (Bangkok Time, UTC+7) Venue: Virtually (Zoom)   Background   Rapid urbanisation has a potential to make countries productive and prosperous. On the other hand, at present, most of the cities are totally unprepared to handle…
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 depl…
The Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM) functions as a management tool to help countries develop disaster risk reduction strategies, make risk-informed policy decisions and contribute to the Target E of the Sendai Framework related to development of actionable national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020. As of March 1, 2018, Member States c…

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