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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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PANAMA, 25 January, 2017 - Rivers run through many cities in Latin America that have joined UNISDR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign, and management of these rivers brought three of those cities together last month to carry out a reality check.
Representatives from the municipalities and civil society organizations of Santo Tomé, Argentina, Santa Ana,…
This monthly newsletter highlights UNISDR activities around the world. This issue reports on: (i) the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR13), which will focus on private sector and disaster risk; (ii) the conclusion of the 4th Africa Regional Platform; (iii) the expected crowd at the fourth session of the Global Platform on Disaster…
A nightmare scenario for any community is to be taken by surprise in the middle of the night by a sudden disaster such as the mudslide that swept away hundreds of lives earlier this month in the Amazonian town of Mocoa in Putamayo, Colombia.
Heavy rain over a three-hour period combined with deforestation and unstable soils to reveal once more that huma…
El 28 de septiembre en la ciudad de Buenaventura, Colombia, se dio inicio al tercer diplomado en Gestión de Riesgos con énfasis en Reducción del Riesgo Urbano y Adaptación al Cambio Climático. Evento que conto con la participación de más de 50 representantes de los Consejos Municipales de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres de los Municipios de Buenaventura…
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El II Encuentro Hemisférico sobre Mecanismos y Redes Nacionales para la Reducción del Riesgo, “Encuentro de Santa Marta: De la teoría a la práctica”, se llevará a cabo, entre el 14 y 16 de abril de 2010, en Santa Marta, Colombia.
El Encuentro de Santa Marta es organizado y convocado por el gobierno de Colombia, a través del Ministerio del I…