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In person
12 October 2011 - 14 October 2011
Panama City
During the Education in Emergencies international conference being held in Panama, a celebration will be held on October 13th from 14:30, to mark international DRR day. This ceremony is being organized by ISDR, UNICEF TACRO, IFRC and Plan International, with the participation of over 17 government delegations from LAC, regional INGO offices based in Pa…
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The Caribbean’s fragile economy is being battered by the pandemic that is keeping tourists from its tropical beaches and leaving heavily-indebted countries ill-prepared to cope with violent hurricanes and other emergencies, say experts.  Gnawing away at the d…
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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…
The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR11) – Revealing Risk, Redefining Development – is a major initiative of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) by monitoring risk patterns and progress in disaster risk reduction. Importantly, it provi…
This is the 2nd edition of the Disaster Risk Management Program for Priority Countries, originally published by GFDRR in 2009. It now includes the country programmes missing in the first edition (Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, and Philippines, as well as an update of the DRM Country Program for Haiti (to take into account the impact of the January…
Recording of the session (in spanish): HERE The COVID-19 pandemic, its impact and causality, has provided an opportunity to reflect on risk management and its importance in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It is undoubtedly a historic juncture that forces us to look in the mirror and examine old problems from new perspectives.  The le…
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the fragility of our global networks. A health crisis has shocked economies, policies, governance, trade, infrastructure. In short, it has changed today’s society and may well leave a significant mark on the shaping of tomorrow’s society. The clearest lesson from the pandemic has been the necessity to be prepared for dis…
Vacancy
Closing date:
08 November 2014
14-PGM-UNISDR-37591-R-PANAMA CITY (X) United Nations Core Values: Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity Special Notice Extension of the appointment is subject to the availability of the funds. Org. Setting And Reporting Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Secretariat of the Internationa…
This first edition of the Regional Assessment Report on Disaster Risk in Latin America and the Caribbean (RAR 2021) presents the results of thirty years of efforts to reduce the risk of disasters in the region. The analysis contained in these pages—particularly when considered in combination with the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the ad…
1. Antecedentes Creada en diciembre de 1999, la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (UNISDR por sus siglas en inglés) es el punto focal designado en el sistema de las Naciones Unidas para la coordinación de la reducción del riesgo de desastres, de asegurar sinergias entre las actividades de reducción de desastres d…

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