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Displaying 90 of about 136 resultsThe 2009 laureate for the Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction is geologist Dr Eko Teguh Paripurno. He receives the award - valued at US$ 50,000 - for his lifetime contribution and his outstanding commitment to reduce disaster risk and building capacity at the community level in Indonesia, one of the countries most vulnerable to multiple hazards.
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The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction will launch today in Jakarta, Indonesia the first Disaster Reduction Library (DRL). The DRL is an ISDR initiative that will help communities to develop a culture of prevention and to become more resilient to the effects of natural, technological and environmental hazards.
Background
At the Third UN World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction in March 2015, 187 Member States adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 – the global blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the post-2015 era.
Learning from the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (HFA), the Sendai Framework emphasizes…
Background and rationale:
Indonesia cities face with increased risk of disasters. The potential of economic and human losses from natural hazards is being exacerbated by the rate of unplanned urban expansion and influenced by the quality of urban management. During 1970-2010, the annual growth rate of urban population in Indonesia was 4.2% (compared to…
Summary
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 was adopted by UN Member States on 18 March 2015 at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai City, Japan. To monitor global progress of the Sendai Framework a set of global and national Sendai Framework indicators is being developed by an open-ended int…
When the annual monsoon rains come, 14-year-old Atik worries.
As the deputy chief of the children’s council in her home village of Dowan, in Indonesia’s Central Java province she knows,” When it rains heavily for hours, it seems that soil in some parts of this village will shift and cause a landslide.”
When the children’s council presented their hazar…
BANGKOK, 10 April 2012 - Threatened by increasing and lethal seasonal floods, the 500-year old Malaysian port city of Melaka is making considerable efforts to reduce the disaster risks that it currently faces from such climate related catastrophic events.
Located along the Straits of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping routes, the city of Mela…
GENEVA, 21 November 2011 - UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has highlighted disaster risk reduction as a major area where the UN and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) can work together to assist vulnerable people.
Following the 4th ASEAN-UN Summit which ended on Saturday, the Secretary-General welcomed the Joint Declaration on Compre…
JAKARTA, 8 November 2011 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), The World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) are convening the “ASEAN Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Forum” to help ASEAN Member States build greater finan…
YOGYAKARTA, 23 October 2012 - The President of Indonesia, Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said today that the UN High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda which met last month for the first time, shares the view that "natural disasters and other crises could push millions of people back into poverty."
Speaking at the opening…
BANGKOK, 19 October 2012 - More than 1,200 participants including 49 Government Ministers and high level delegates from Asia will gather next Tuesday in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, at the Fifth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) where the devastating consequences of disaster losses across the region will be top of the agenda.
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Geneva, 16 June – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia met with Margareta Wahlström, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, on Wednesday to discuss ways to help build the resilience of communities.
Acknowledging that disaster risks are increasing, President Yudhoyono committed to worki…
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…
The 4th Congress is the continuation of the 1st Congress in Daegu City, South Korea, the 2nd Congress in Pattaya, Thailand, and the 3rd Congress in Hamamatsu, Japan. The aim is to exchange views, ideas and information which will aid UCLG members in the Asia-Pacific region to conceive, build and create a network of resilient cities with the strenght to r…
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…