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30 September 2014 - 02 October 2014
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El actual Plan de Acción DIPECHO 2013-2014 para América del Sur se concentra en reducir la vulnerabilidad, aumentar la capacidad de reacción local y hacer posible que la preparación comunitaria influya en las instituciones para que puedan enfrentar futuros fenómenos extremos, de modo que estos no se conviertan en desastres. A ello contribuyen actividade…
Este informe contiene información sobre las tendencias del riesgo de desastres a nivel global, los avances en cuanto a la implementación del Marco de Acción de Hyogo y un análisis detallado de varios aspectos de actualidad sobre la gestión del riesgo, que incluye la forma cómo el riesgo de desastres afecta al sector privado, los riesgos ocultos de la gl…
PANAMA, 1 February 2013 - Colombia's cutting edge reputation for disaster risk management received a boost this week as high-level experts gathered in Bogota to identify strategic actions for disaster risk reduction in advance of this year's Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction which will be a landmark event in discussions on a Post-2015 global f…
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…
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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…
In Spanish: Este boletín informa sobre DIPECHO programa, que se concentra en reducir la vulnerabilidad de la población ante desastres de origen natural y tiene como objetivo mejorar las capacidades de las comunidades expuestas a estos riesgos para que estén mejor preparadas y protegidas. Entre los proyectos regionales en Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Col…
This is the 2nd edition of the Disaster Risk Management Program for Priority Countries, originally published by GFDRR in 2009. It now includes the country programmes missing in the first edition (Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, and Philippines, as well as an update of the DRM Country Program for Haiti (to take into account the impact of the January…
This report aims to answer the questions: i) how can decentralisation strengthen disaster risk reduction (DRR), and ii) what obstacles are encountered and how can these be overcome. The evidence in this report is drawn from a global literature review and field research in Colombia, Indonesia, Mozambique and South Africa. The authors propose a deco…
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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,…
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CARTAGENA, 25 June 2018 – Ministers and senior officials from the Americas and the Caribbean are urging progress on monitoring the region’s roadmap for resilience to disasters.. In a declaration at the close of the three-day Vl Regional Platform on Disaster Reduction in the Americas, they said members should integrate disaster risk reduc…
The UNISDR secretariat launches this new publication featuring nine National Platform case studies in an effort to inspire and support the birth of new National Platforms, and also to strengthen existing ones. Governments increasingly recognize the need for comprehensive multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral national coordinating mechanisms - National Pl…
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PANAMA, 20 October 2015 – The resilience of the Nasa indigenous community in Colombia has been recognized 21 years after they lost over 1,000 people in a flood and earthquake which struck on June 6, 1994. Living along the banks of the Páez, they have also been coping successfully with the reactivation of the Nevado de Huila volcano in 2007. The volcan…
In Spanish: 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…
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…
Respondiendo al llamado de propiciar espacios académicos para el intercambio de este tipo de saberes, la Corporación para la Gestión de los Riesgos – CorpoRiesgos y la Campaña Mundial “Desarrollando Ciudades Resilientes: ¡Mi Ciudad se está Preparando!” de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (UNISDR), crearon la Cá…

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