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Displaying 45 of about 136 resultsBANGKOK, 18 October 2012 - Eleven short films on disaster risk reduction have been selected for competition in the first Asian Film Festival on Disaster Risk Reduction which will take place at the Fifth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction next week in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the…
BANGKOK, 26 June, 2012 - The Indonesian government today announced details of the Fifth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction which it will host in October as the region counts the cost of record-breaking disaster losses over the last year. Indonesia made disaster risk reduction a national priority following the 2004 Asian tsunami.
La…
BALI/GENEVA, 18 November 2011 – The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, will tomorrow officially recognise the appointment of the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as the first UNISDR global champion of disaster risk reduction at the 19th ASEAN summit in Bali as the region copes with the impact of record floods.
President Susil…
These educational videos are meant to summarize the key actions governments and stakeholders can take to reduce disaster displacement. The videos, available in English (Timor-Leste), Tagalog (the Philippines), and Bahasa Indonesia, are based on the Checklist on Disaster Displacement and are meant to complement the Words into Action Guidelines on Disaste…
This 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.
PORT VICTORIA, Seychelles, 5 September 2016 - Memories of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami which claimed some 230,000 lives, will be revived this week as 24 countries take part in one of the largest tsunami simulations ever staged.
Disaster management officials from Australia, Bangladesh, Comoros, France (La Reunion), India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, M…
MELBOURNE, Australia, 10 May 2016 – Tsunami experts from across the Indian Ocean have gathered in Australia this week to work on ways to improve their ability to ward off a repeat of the tragedy that struck the region in 2004.
The five-day session, run by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and hosted by the Australian Bureau of Meteoro…
JAKARTA, 28 August 2015 – Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has told business leaders that the private sector is vital to efforts to reduce the country’s disaster risk.
The BNPB’s Deputy Chief for Prevention and Mitigation, Mr. Bapak Wisnu Widjaja, extended the hand of partnership to a gathering of more than 30 executives.
Mr. Wid…
BOGOR, Indonesia, 1 July, 2015 - The President of Indonesia, Mr. Joko Widodo, plans to launch a National Disaster Risk Reduction Movement in October this year that will include a focus on urban areas of the vast country which is exposed to a wide range of natural and man-made hazards.
The news was announced at the close of three days of high-level trai…
Background
Indonesia is an archipelagic country with more than 17.000 islands, disasters trigered by natural hazards include landslides, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and drought. At the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2017, the Government of Indonesia highlighted its committed to implementing the Sendai Framework at all levels th…
This joint training of UNISDR ONEA-GETI and School of Environment of Griffith University, Australia targets 30 staff and students of Indonesian Hasanuddin University (UNHAS) from Makassar, South Sulawesi, Republic of Indonesia.
The main focus of the training will cover:
Introduction to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduc…
The Global Thematic Consultation will build on the outcomes of the discussions at the 5th Asian Ministerial Conference on DRR in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on 22-25 October 2012 to take the discussion further on what aspects of DRR and how they should be reflected in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
The outcomes of the Global Thematic Consultation will pro…
The agenda in this meeting is to report the accomplishments of the cluster for the past reporting period and discuss the concept proposal of Strategic Planning. There also will be a discussion session on possible cluster projects and activities in preparation for proposed strategic planning workshop.
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Global Assesment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
Risk and poverty in a changing climate
Invest today for a safer tomorrow
The first edition of the biennial Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, launched in the Kingdom of Bahrain on 17 May 2009, offers government leaders and their advi…
Indigenous peoples’ understanding of disaster risk uses an enormous dataset – traditional knowledge and folklore reaching back many generations.
Cultures that have developed alongside natural hazards incorporate risk awareness and resilience measures into a range of beliefs and practices. These are based on a solid evidence base of lived experience.…