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United Nations Core Values:
Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
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Org. Setting And Reporting
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Secretariat of the International Str…
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United Nations Core Values:
Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
Org. Setting and Reporting
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies among…
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United Nations Core Values: Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
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Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disa…
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United Nations Core Values: Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity
Org. Setting and Reporting
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of disaster reduction and to ensure synergies amo…
United Nations Core Values: Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity
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By Mami Mizutori, United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction
This month sees the beginning of a major effort by all U.N. member states to systematically collect data on everyday losses experienced as a result of natural or man-made hazards, as well as related environmental, technological and biological hazard…
The Asia-Pacific disaster report, 2010:
This report addresses the exponential increase of disaster risks in Asia-Pacific, as a result of the compounding effects of inequitable economic growth patterns, population pressures and extreme climatic events. It is centred on the thinking that good efforts made by Asia-Pacific countries in reducing vulnerabil…
This document provides a day by day report of the 3rd EFDRR meeting, which intended to serve as the forum for exchanging information and knowledge, coordinating efforts throughout the Europe region and for providing advocacy for effective action to reduce disasters. It summarizes: (i) the key points highlighted by the speakers during the opening session…
This report describes the methodology used in Albania for historical disaster loss collection, the sources of data used and an analyze of the losses divided in different category groups. The historical collection of loss data is a concrete example on how disasters data can enhance the understanding of the impacts of disasters and can provide information…
The GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) carries out annual training courses on 'Seismology and Seismic Hazard Assessment'
These crash courses are part of the educational and training program of the UNESCO, in the field of geosciences and disaster mitigation. They are a major German contribution of the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disa…
GENEVA, 19 September 2014 – As part of the build-up to the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan, next March, Geneva Airport is offering passengers the chance to engage with the planet through an inter-active digital globe, the Tangible Earth, developed by the Earth Literacy Programme at Kyoto University, Japan.
Passenge…
The meeting is convened by International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Secretariat. UNESCO, as a key partner in ISDR system, is hosting this meeting.
At its 23rd session, HLCP requested the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction to convene a time-bound senior management group to prepare a UN system-wide Plan…
The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) is intended to serve as the forum for exchanging information and knowledge, coordinating efforts throughout the Europe region and for providing advocacy for effective action to reduce disasters. Moreover, it shall be devoted to contemporary issues of importance needed to promote a good political cli…
GENEVA, 30 March 2012 - UNISDR today welcomed the full publication of the Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) and said "it provides us with the impetus for action to save the world from the worst that climate change can br…
GENEVA, 21 September 2012 - UNISDR chief, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the focus on the importance of systematic recording of disaster losses and impacts contained in the 2012 MDG Gap Task Force Report launched by the Secretary-General yesterday.
Ms. Wahlström said: "Access to information is critical to successful disaster risk management. You c…