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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsGENEVA, 18 July 2012 - UNISDR's 2011 Annual Report is now available online and reveals that its two landmark Global Assessment Reports on Disaster Risk Reduction Reports (GAR) for 2009 and 2011, have had over 200,000 chapter downloads over the last three years.
It also demonstrates that, "despite some degree of unpredictability in its voluntary funding…
GENEVA, 15 February 2012 - A new briefing paper from Oxfam identifies "the limited investment in building resilience and disaster risk reduction (DRR), despite rhetoric to the contrary" as one of main failures of humanitarian aid in recent times.
A key theme of Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project is capacity building of st…
Investing in resilience - accelerating the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the Americas:
A declaration in which the participants of the Regional platform for disaster risk reduction in the Americas acknowledge the work being developed in the region surrounding disaster risk reduction, as guided by the principles and priorities set o…
This report provides feedback after the first two years of operation of the Global Facility, and demonstrates the significant value it has brought to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework around the world, as the Global Platform for Disaster Reduction convenes for its second session in June 2009.
It provides concrete examples of the manner in which…
UNISDR and WMO started in May 2012 the joint implementation of the project “Building Resilience to Disasters in the Western Balkans and Turkey”. The project is supported by the European Commission DG Enlargement through the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA). The beneficiaries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of…
GENEVA, 5 October 2012 - On 13 October, the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) will be an occasion to pay tribute to millions of girls and women around the world who are on the frontline making their communities and societies resilient to the impacts of disasters and the effects of climate change.
Driven by the theme Women and Girls: the […
NAIROBI, 2 June 2016 – Healthy and well-managed ecosystems offer a buffer against hazards and can support local resilience by sustaining livelihoods, making them a cornerstone of efforts to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The role of environmental protection in curbing the risk of natural and man-made hazards was in focus at…
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Este texto fue establecido como el Marco de Colaboración para establecer vínculos de intereses para la coalición para la resiliencia de las organizaciones de carácter regional e internacional comprometidas con la promoción y garantía de derechos de la niñez, la adolescencia y la juventud en los países de Latino-américa y el Caribe.