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CANCUN, Mexico, 25 May 2017 – Efforts to reduce disaster death tolls in Portugal, Iran, Brazil and Fiji have been honoured by an international award from the United Nations and Japan’s Nippon Foundation. Issued at the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, the biennial Sasakawa Award recognised projects that have made a substantial contribut…
This report by the Secretariat for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) presents Portugal’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood and earthquake, and discusses the organization, responsibilities and activities of the National Service for Civil Defense. The report outlines country’s main disaster prevention achieve…
Report for the period 2009-2011: The main objective of this report is to identify key trends in terms of progress made and challenges faced, at both national and regional levels, through the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in Europe from 2009 to 2011. It also compares progress made, lessons learned and challenges to overcome with…
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The document serves the purpose of providing up to date information relating to National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction within the UNISDR Europe Region. To date 27 NPs have been officially nominated in UNISDR Europe Region. (Last updated 11 December 2014)
Risk and Resilience in practice: Vulnerabilities, Displaced People, Local Communities and Heritages The Building Resilience Conference is an annual international conference exploring resilience as a useful framework of analysis for how society can cope with the threat of natural and human induced hazards.  The 2018 edition is organised by th…
This paper is the result of collaboration between the Municipality of Amadora (Portugal), the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and an Australian member of an international research team, which has been involved in community engagement. This publication explores the stakeholder engagement process by the Municipality of Amadora to build communit…
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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…
Members of Parliament around the world are key drivers of change in moving the disaster risk reduction agenda forward from political commitments to concrete action. Realizing the human and economic imperative to shift from a disaster response culture to one of prevention and risk reduction, parliamentarians from Africa, Asia, and Latin America are stepp…
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…
Local governments play an essential role in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and building resilience. At UNDRR’s 2022 Global Platform in Bali, local leaders from across the globe joined a productive discussion on important issues around disaster resilience at local level.  Participants at the Local Leaders Forum discussed how the Sendai Framework sup…
Governments from across the region pledged preventative measures to increase resilience to hazards including disease outbreaks, climate change and threats to critical infrastructure. Matosinhos – Governments across Europe and Central Asia have backed a roadmap towards preventing future disasters including new pandemics in the face of growing threats fr…
THE CASE OF COVID19 IMPACT IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF AMADORA, PORTUGAL The Municipality of Amadora with 24 square kilometers of area and 180,000 inhabitants was the first municipality in Portugal with COVID-19 registered cases which were imported from Italy (during Carnival holidays). These cases, which were detected on February 27, 2020 in 2 schools, le…

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