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Coordinate, together with the UNISDR regional office for the Americas, DRR organizations and national experts, the implementation of activities of the project " Implementing the post 2015 International Disas…
United Nations Core Values: Integrity - Professionalism - Respect for diversity
Background:
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multidisciplinary and multi stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human, e…
Background
In the Arab region, the League of Arab States (LAS) is taking the lead in promoting the integration of disaster risk reduction in key regional policies on climate change, environment and disaster management coordination mechanisms. It also supports and calls for the implementation of HFA at the regional and national levels and promotes the c…
Indian Ocean Consortium:
In order to assist the national efforts towards developing tsunami warning and mitigation system within a multi-hazard approach to disaster reduction, ISDR System partners formed a “consortium” to offer an immediate package of advisory support to Indian Ocean Governments. The offer included assistance to develop national plans…
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human, economic and social losses. A range of United Nations organizations and internati…
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Asia as a whole accounts for over 60% of the world’s population and accounts for 87 percent of disaster casualties worldwide. People, communities, and even governments in disaster-prone countries still are ill-prepared for addressing or coping with disaster risk or vulnerabilities.
In the first nine months of 2008, disasters across Asia and…