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Displaying 6 of about 6 resultsBEIRA, 10 October 2019 - Reconstruction of housing has yet to get underway in Mozambique six months after Cyclone Idai made landfall in March and followed a month later by Cyclone Kenneth which made came ashore further north.
Some 300,000 homes were damaged or destroyed and the road to recovery is beset with challenges including putting in pl…
By Mami Mizutori, head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
The devastation of one of Mozambique’s largest cities, Beira, by Cyclone Idai, which claimed hundreds of lives, is stark evidence that the countries which contribute least to climate change are the ones being affected by it the most.
These last years of record global warmth have…
Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Risk Reduction
10 September 2019
Financial Times Summit, Maputo
Remarks
Ms. Mami Mizutori
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk
Reduction and Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
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I appreciate the opportunity to be here with you today…
Policy coherence is instrumental to address vulnerability and resilience holistically. Bearing in mind the complexities inherent to these processes, systems thinking have been recognized as an approach to enhance the exchange of knowledge and tools and optimize resources for sustainable development (UNESCAP, 2018).To this end, UNDRR is organising a mult…
The world is an increasingly fragile place, especially for countries like Mozambique which lack resources to adapt to climate change
By Mami Mizutori, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction and head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Mozambique and the city of Beira do not want to go down in histo…
MAPUTO, 10 September, 2019 - Mozambique was congratulated today on aligning its Master Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction with the global plan for reducing disaster losses, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Mami Mizutori, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, said it was encouraging to see such c…