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Displaying 15 of about 17 resultsARUSHA, 12 February 2013 - For the last three weeks, the Maputo-based weekly newspaper "Domingo" has featured the Mozambique floods on its front page.
Domingo editor, Jorge Ernesto Rungo, was today able to give journalists from across Africa an insight into the challenges of covering one of the largest disasters to hit the country since the floods of 2…
HARARE, 29 July 2015 – Zimbabwe is working to build its communities’ capacity to understand and reduce disaster risk, in a country often confronted by floods or droughts, but poverty and unemployment can make action a challenge.
“There is a growing realisation that the best way to effectively deal with and prevent disasters is to promote an uptake in d…
This inventory is an attempt to pull together the threads and to identify what does and what does not work in relation to legal, institutional and planning frameworks for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. It aims to further support the strengthening or establishment of national platforms, definition of DRR policies and national action plans by id…
BEIJING, 26 September - Over 40 officials from China, Africa and the United Nations are taking part in a three-day “Sino-African High-Level Seminar on Drought Risk Reduction” which is calling for drought risk reduction to be on the agenda of the next year’s Sino-African Summit for Development Cooperation.
Opening the Beijing High-Level Seminar yesterda…
Windhoek (Namibia), 27 August 2011 – The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Disaster Risk Reduction Unit in partnership with the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and UNISDR is conducting a disaster risk reduction (DRR) stakeholders training workshop from 27-28 August 2011. The workshop will be held along…
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The ‘Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters’ (HFA) pointed out that countries that develop policy, legislative and institutional frameworks for disaster risk reduction and that are able to develop and track progress have greater capacity to manage risk across all sectors of society…
During AMCOMET one session will be co organised by WMO and UNISDR on Climate services and DRR
The AMCOMET Panel Discussion entitled, 'Weather and Climate Services in Support of Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa' aims to link weather and climate knowledge to disaster risk reduction decision making process and discuss how to improve weather and climate pr…
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), through the Climate Services Centre, is organizing the Fifteenth Southern Africa Region Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-15). This will be followed by a Disaster Risk Reduction stakeholders training workshop, 29-30 August 2011.
The main objective of SARCOF-15 is to develop a consensus climate outlook for peri…
ISDR Thematic Platform for Knowledge and Education 2012:
This desk review revisits existing reports about all aspects of school safety, gathered from 81 countries, and refers to the key advocacy and guidance documents for school safety of the past 7 years to develop an analysis that reflects the best practices in achieving the goals of comprehensive sc…
This policy brief, issued while Governments discuss how to adapt to climate change in Durban, reflects that African countries are committed and investing funds to reduce risk to floods and droughts, albeit too little and still insufficiently in development sectors. These findings are potentially important as they demonstrate the effectiveness of address…
On 31 March 2021 Member States were invited to reflect 2020 data for Targets A, B, C, D & E in the Sendai Framework Monitor. This milestone was particularly important as countries were invited to reflect Covid 19 data for the first time and to report on th e achievement of adoption of national DRR strategies aligned to the Sendai Framework by 2020 (…
NAIROBI, 17 February, 2020 - Six cyclone-affected cities in southern Africa are joining together to develop the so-called Fortitude Initiative to build their resilience to the climate emergency following last year’s catastrophic South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season.
Representatives from the cyclone affected cities of Beira and Pemba, Mozambique;…
MASVINGO, Zimbabwe, 26 February 2016 – Zimbabwe has declared a state of disaster in the face of a regional drought, but smallholder farmers are tackling climate change head on by adopting new livelihood strategies to counter the adverse effects.
Such community action is at the core of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a 15-year internat…
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…
This document summarizes the outcomes of the Programme Forum and presents the progress made in disaster prevention and risk reduction during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). It also addresses major concerns in disaster risk management related to education, capacity development, social impact and vulnerability, civil socie…