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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsApply hereOverviewThrough USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA), the United States sponsors qualified U.S. citizens for employment in the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Program.These fully funded JPO positions strengthen the capacity of UNDRR, and further encourage U.S. citize…
5 April 2023, The United Cities and Local Governments Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA) organized a webinar on the critical role of local governments in disaster management. The webinar was conducted in English, Turkish, and Arabic and featured prominent speakers, who shared their valuable insights and experiences on disaster management, mit…
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As part of the MCR2030 Digital Resilience Webinar Series, the third and last webinar of the series will focus on how policy makers can harness the emerging opportunities of digitalisation, as well as the large offer of tools and resources available, to support municipal and institutional governance and urban pl…
The 8th annual meeting of the Portuguese National Platform on DRR’s working group on Resilient Cities was held in the municipality of Loulé in the region of Algarve on 24-26 May. The three-day event started with a ceremony to celebrate the 51 local governments that have joined the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative, in which they wer…
Governments and stakeholders across Europe and Central Asia are organizing a wide variety of events and activities to raise awareness on this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction theme on “fighting inequality for a resilient future”In his message for this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR), the UN Secretary-Gene…
AboutKeeping track of hazardous events, disaster losses and damages is an essential element of our understanding of risk. This serves as a key decision-support tool for planning for and benchmarking progress in risk reduction, adaptation and resilience building. In the last few decades, considerable progress has been made in systematically assessing and…
NEW YORK – Representatives from UN Member States meeting in New York this week have agreed on greater political commitment to resilience building. It comes in a context of rapidly rising disaster risk which is projected to reach 560 a year – or 1.5 disasters a day – by 2030. As the meeting got underway, Cyclone Mocha hit Myanmar and Bangladesh dest…
On 13-15 September 2023 a science-policy workshop will celebrate in Bonn the 15th anniversary of the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR). Jaroslav Mysiak, Director of the CMCC Division on Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies and coordinator of the Naturance project, will take part in the event and moderate a thematic ses…