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Displaying 10 of about 1455 resultsUNDRR report published to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, 2020, confirms how extreme weather events have come to dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century. The statistics in this report are from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (C…
While the COVID-19 crisis is continuing to impact Europe, consuming a majority of attention and resources, other disaster risks still remain. For an increasing area of Europe, weather conditions are contributing to a dangerous wildfire season, exacerbated by a changing risk landscape. The European Science and Technology Group (E-STAG) thematic paper on…
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created a vicious circle of vulnerabilities across the private sector. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and partners published a toolkit to provide business continuity and recove…
On 20 November 2022, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), in Sharm el-Sheikh, concluded with a historic decision to establish and operationalize a loss and damage fund. This decision caps thirty years of determined advocacy by small islands, least developed countries, and civil society…
This scoping report provides insights on how strengthening the connection between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) could reinforce efforts to enhance the protection of persons with disabilities in disaster risk situations.
It looks into article 11 of the CRPD and its focus on the dimensi…
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…
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…
Issue 10 of the UNDRR Regional Office for Arab States Newsletter is out covering the period of July – December 2022 under the titles:
UNDRR ROAS at COP27
Regional Collaborations
News and Events
Publications
Media Center
Social Media Campaigns
This evaluation policy defines the scope of evaluations, the types of evaluation and their guiding principles, and outlines the institutional framework for establishing evaluation functions within UNDRR. Moreover, this policy identifies criteria for selection of evaluations, and outlines roles and responsibilities to facilitate and track implementation…
This report documents the assessment of the status of national disaster loss databases in 13 countries and presents lessons to guide the next generation of disaster loss accounting systems (DLAS). Monitoring disaster loss and damage is an integral part of risk governance, humanitarian programming, and public and private investments. Disasters of all dim…