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Displaying 15 of about 130 resultsThis regional snapshot report demonstrates the use and value of the SFM reporting data for strengthening disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Asia Pacific countries. It presents the SFM data until 21 October 2021, together with ten country case studies that highlight good practice for effective disaster data management and SFM reporting in the region. Thema…
The aim of this guidance is to support the Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM) Officers, strengthen the Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM) reporting through the promotion of good practice for sex, age, and disability disaggregated data, and complement the SFM guidance.
The United Nations (UN) describes data disaggregation…
This contributing paper explores the opportunities offered by digital media mining to complement impact databases. Impact data on past disasters caused by natural hazards (in short, impact data) are of paramount importance for several applications. These include advocacy for investments in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and providing and evidence base fo…
This report examines significant and specific gaps in long-running disaster impact data sets which skew our knowledge about global patterns and trends. The report identifies substantial variability in the same impact measurements – including the key metric of mortality – across global databases. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, storms and flooding bec…
This concept note presents the seven global targets of the Sendai Framework for measuring progress on reducing disaster risk and losses. These indicators align implementation of the Sendai Framework with implementation of the SDGs and the “Paris Agreement”.
IDDRR focus – The Sendai Seven
2016 – Target (a): Substantially reduce global dis…
The Sendai Seven Campaign is in its 6th year following its launch by the UN Secretary-General in 2016. Each year, the focus has been on one of the seven targets of the Sendai Framework agreed by UN Member States at a World Conference on DRR in Sendai, Japan.
In summary, the seven targets focus on
reducing disaster mortality;
reducing the numbers of…
El presente marco teórico está diseñado para uso de las agencias nacionales con el fin de mejorar la calidad de la información y los datos que están siendo recopilados para monitorear la implementación del Marco de Sendai para la Reducción del riesgo de Desastres y las iniciativas de reducción y gestión del riesgo de desastres en sus países.
Este docum…
Modern society is facing an unprecedented revolution. As highlighted by the International Council of Science and the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA-ICSU,2018), digital technology offers profound opportunities for science to discover unsuspected patterns and relationships in nature and society, on scales from the molecular to the…
From the 19th to 21st of August 2014, the city of Hiroshima in Japan experienced a torrential rainfall triggering 166 landslides, which led to 107 debris flows and 59 shallow slides. These landslides were compounded by flash flooding. The consequence of the landslides and flooding led to 74 deaths in the two wards of Asa-Kita and Asa-Minami,…
FAO-Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) and the Climate and Environment Division (CBC) have developed an “Agricultural Stress Index System” (ASIS) for detecting agricultural areas with a high likelihood of water stress (drought) on a global scale using remote sensing data with the technical assistance and advice from the Flemish Institut…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction's first global target is to “substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower the average per 100 000 global mortality rate in the decade 2020–2030 compared to the period 2005–2015”. To measure success against meeting this target, mortality needs to be accurately quantified and int…
This document is the eighth in a series of special topics for consideration, as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment published by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction for the use of crowdsourcing as an approach to gathering information for risk assessment, which has benefits not only for…
Collection of Technical Notes on Data and MethodologyOn 2 February 2017, in adopting Resolution A/RES/71/276, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Report of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group on Indicators and Terminology Related to Disaster Risk Reduction (A/71/644), and the recommendations for indicators and termino…
The Greater Paris Region and MASA Group have been working alongside to test contingency plans with the artificial intelligent simulation platform MASA SYNERGY. As a result these contingency plans were updated. In a second stage, senior crisis staff, emergency services personnel and the private sector were trained to deal with the impact of this continge…
This issue includes:
Editorial -
Voices & Ideas:
- Chosica: Prevention Bears Fruit
- Crisis or Mitigation?: The role of relationships between institutions and communities in disaster recovery assistance
- Contingency plans for coping with disasters: A need that cannot be postponed
- Agents of Change: The Role of Children and Youth in Disaster
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