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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 (UNISDR) is the design…
ISDR/C/20/2014
United Nations Core Values:
Integrity ● Professionalism ● Respect for diversity
Background
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 dis…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 guides Member States in reflecting on their own systems for disaster risk management and to foster disaster risk reduction efforts at national and local level. The first priority of the Sendai Framework calls for systematic collection, recording and sharing of disaster loss data with the ulti…
Background
The Capacity for Disaster Initiative (CADRI) is a joint initiative of UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, co-located within the secretariat of ISDR. CADRI’s goal is to advance the generation of knowl…
The position is located in the Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) in Geneva, Switzerland under the overall guidance of the Director. The consultant will report to the Senior Programme Officer of the Advocacy and Outreach Unit and work closely with the Programme Officer for National Platforms for Disaster Risk Redu…
The position is located in the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) in Geneva, Switzerland under the overall guidance of the Director. The Intern will report to the Senior Programme Officer of the Information Management Unit and work in close collaboration with the PreventionWeb Project Manager.
Duties and res…
This background paper provides a resource for the relative analysis of volcanic hazard and risk around the world on the basis of regions and individual countries with volcanoes that have been active in the last 10,000 years. Global information can mask the fact that there are great variations between countries with active volca…
By Mami Mizutori
Twenty years after Hurricane Mitch claimed thousands of lives across Central America, it is now common practice for the countries of the Americas to come together every two years to discuss prevention and how to build resilience to extreme events, both weather and non-weather related.
On this occasion, they will gather in Cartagena, C…