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Displaying 30 of about 56 resultsThis publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.
The inclusion of persons with disabilities in disaster risk reduction strategies has become a central focus in Santiago de Cali, Colombia. The event, held on September 21 and 22, 2023, was organized in collaboration by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), and the Municipal…
This contributing paper explores the role and the contribution of the public and private sectors in the (re)production and accumulation of disaster risks from a disaster capitalism optic, both in the academic literature and in the policy realm. This study responds to this gap and provides a preliminary international overview of the root causes, behaviou…
External evaluation of the implementation of UNISDR's regional project DIPECHO South America 2011-2012.
Evaluación externa de la implementación del proyecto regional UNISDR para DIPECHO América del Sur 2011-2012.
Proyecto:
Fortaleciendo la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres en América del Sur a través de la promoción de la implementación de las priori…
This working paper analyses the objectives and rationale of tracking public investments on disaster risk reduction (DRR). The document also looks into the methodologies adopted for tracking public investments for various cross-cutting issues and reviews case studies on tracking public investments on DRR in different regions and…
This document presents a project which aims at improving the knowledge of the distribution of building type for 18 countries where more detailed information, than that previously gathered, became available. Secondly, the project attempts to solve the enumerating problem of population living and working int he different types of buildings identified in t…
ISDR Thematic Platform for Knowledge and Education 2012:
This desk review revisits existing reports about all aspects of school safety, gathered from 81 countries, and refers to the key advocacy and guidance documents for school safety of the past 7 years to develop an analysis that reflects the best practices in achieving the goals of comprehensive sc…
TORONTO, Canada, 29 March 2016 – Ensuring that companies understand and act on the risks posed by natural and man-made hazards is a vital step towards reducing disaster impacts. Business education offers a tool to achieve this.
A dozen universities from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru and the United States have…
CARTAGENA, 25 June 2018 – An Americas and Caribbean conference on disaster risk reduction closed with ministers reiterating support for a regional plan to accelerate action against natural and man-made hazards that take a heavy toll each year.
The Vl Regional Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas – now officially Americas and the Caribbea…
The general objective of this regional seminar is as follows:
Generate a space for integration and exchange of public-private experiences in managing disaster risks in the context of continuity of government and continuity of business operations.
Specific objectives:
Promote an exchange of experiences between governments and the private sector for…
Los objetivos generales de este seminario regional son:
Generar un espacio de integración e intercambio de experiencias público – privadas en la gestión del riesgo de desastre en el marco de la continuidad de gobierno y continuidad de negocios y operaciones.
Objetivos específicos:
Generar un intercambio entre gobiernos y el sector privado referente…
The inclusion of people with disabilities in disaster risk reduction strategies and plans took center stage at an event held in Pereira, Colombia. This event was jointly organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), the Secretary of Social and Political Development of…
El propósito de este estudio es el de identificar algunos elementos clave que puedan servir como insumos para la formulación de una Estrategia Suramericana para la reducción del riesgo de desastres liderada por el Grupo de Trabajo de Alto Nivel para la Gestión Integral del Riesgo de Desastres de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, UNASUR, cuyos Estados…
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…
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…