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Geneva – Parliamentarians from ten Asian countries have issued a call to national governments to allocate at least 1 per cent of the national budget and development funding for reducing disaster risk. The call came just days before negotiators gathered in Cancun, Mexico, for the sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Conven…
Indonesia strengthens its bid to make hospitals and schools safer, as part of the One Million Safe Schools and Hospitals campaign Jakarta – Over 13,000 schools and hospitals have joined the “One Million Safe Schools and Hospitals Campaign” since its national launch in Indonesia on July 29, quadrupling in the space of one week from 3,156 schools to 13,5…
YOGYAKARTA, 24 October 2012 - Governments across Asia must involve children when they plan and implement projects to help disaster-prone communities mitigate risks and the impact, youth participants at a regional ministerial meeting said. The young representatives said children must be engaged as active agents of change in their communities, instead of…
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SIEM REAP, Cambodia, 1 February 2016 – Greater disaster resilience at community and national level is an important element of a new era of closer integration and cooperation in Southeast Asia, a high-level ASEAN-China cooperation forum was told today. The 10 countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, whose combined population is 622 milli…
The first regional consultation meeting on post-HFA to be held on the 11th April, 2012 in Bali, Indonesia, on the third day of the first ISDR Asian Partnership (IAP) meeting in 2012. The main objectives of the session: a) introduce the consultation process towards development of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction, and b) obtain initial…
In the mountains of West Java, the Rawa Danau Nature Reserve is the one of last remaining examples of Indonesia’s swamp forests that haven’t been replaced by rice fields. It serves as a natural reservoir, storing water that flows from the surrounding mountains, before flowing onwards into an expanding lattice of rivers and streams that make their way do…
This contributing paper delves into the impact of a tsunami and the COVID-19 pandemic on the coastal tourism sector in Pandeglang Regency (Banten Province) in Indonesia. The sector is a significant contributor to regional income and one of its coastal areas is designated as a Special Economic Zone in 2018. The tourism sector in Pandeglang Regency is sup…
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is glad to announce that the registration for the seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) is now open. The GP2022 will be organized and convened by UNDRR and will take place as an in-person event from 23 to 28 May 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. The event will be…
This publication reports on the analyses and outcomes of the Climate and Disaster Resilience Initiative (CDRI) Capacity-building Program participated by the following 8 cities: Chennai (India), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Hue (Vietnam), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Makati (Philippines), Sukabumi (Indonesia), and Suwon (South Korea). The CDRI C…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…
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Closing date:
09 March 2012
Vacancy number: (ISDR/C/08/2012) Note: Closing date has been extended to 09 March 2012 Background Indonesia has been a leading example for implementing disaster risk reduction policies in the region. The UN appointed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as the first Global champion for disaster risk reduction in November 2011 and this year Indonesia wi…
Vacancy Notice number: ISDR/IC/22/2010 United Nations Core Values: Integrity • Professionalism • Respect for diversity Background: The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and…
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Closing date:
24 December 2008
Background The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human and economic and social losses. A range of United Nations organizations and intern…
A declaration endorsed by Heads of Government, Ministers, and Heads of Delegation of countries in Asia and the Pacific, as an outcome of the Fifth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR), calling on disaster risk reduction (DRR) stakeholders to: (i) participate fully in the consultations leading to the post-2015 Development Agen…
The inaugural Women’s International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) Leadership Awards have been granted to Ms. Vasiti Soko, Director of the National Disaster Management Office in Fiji, and Dr. Nuraini Rahma Hanifa, an earthquake scientist who founded U-INSPIRE Alliance which brings together young professionals in science, engineering and t…

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