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Displaying 15 of about 23 resultsNEW YORK, 27 September 2013 – UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlström made a special plea this week for improved data collection in disaster situations in order to provide a better insight into disability-related injuries.
In parallel with high-level proceedings at the United Nations General Assembly, leading disability and disaster risk reduction advocates ca…
KUALA LUMPUR, 16 November 2016 – Asia’s most prolific disaster risk reduction journalist has urged media colleagues from 12 other countries to move beyond simply describing events and instead help their audiences better protect themselves from various hazards.
Thai PBS’s news editor for disaster and weather reporting, Ms. Darin Klong Ugkara, said “it c…
NEW YORK, 11 October 2016 - The risk of dying in a hurricane or flood is lower today than it was 20 years ago, in most parts of the world. In Haiti, however, the toll of Hurricane Matthew has already passed 1,000, according to media reports.
The issue of how to reach countries and communities left behind and struggling to reduce their disaster mortalit…
GENEVA, 16 October 2013 – Disaster risk management should be a key component of poverty reduction efforts, focusing on protecting livelihoods as well as saving lives, a major report launched today urges.
The post-2015 development goals must include targets on disasters and climate change, recognising the threat they pose to the headline goal of eradica…
Geneva, 3 July 2012 – The United Nations office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, today officially welcomed five members of parliament from Bangladesh, Uganda, Cambodia, Senegal and the East African Legislative Assembly as parliamentary champions committed to promoting legislation for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
This month…
DHAKA, 16 December 2019 - A new record for evacuations was set in Bangladesh a month ago when the government Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) evacuated 2.1 million people before Cyclone Bulbul made landfall on the Sundarbans coast.
The storm highlights why the CPP is planning to expand its geographical coverage and grow from 56,000 volunteers…
Bangkok – Considered one of the worst storms to hit eastern India since 1999, Cyclone Fani left behind a trail of destruction and as of 6 May took the lives of around 38 people in the state of Odisha, according to media reports. Odisha, however, is no stranger to cyclones. In 1999, a super cyclone killed 9,885 people according to the official…
Background and Introduction
“Making cities sustainable and resilient: implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 at the local level” is a three-year initiative by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), supported by the European Commission…
Background and Introduction
Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. At their best, cities have enabled people to advance socially and economically. Yet now that half of the world’s population live in cities, making sustainable and resilient cities - amidst a changing climate, rapidly depl…
The project, organized by the Municipality Association of Bangladesh, aims to further reduce Bangladesh's vulnerability to adverse natural and anthropogenic hazards and extreme events, including the devastating potential impacts of climate change. It will do so through risk management and mainstreaming. CDMP II is a natural expansion and a logical scali…
On the occasion of International Day for Disaster Reduction on 13th October 2012, a regional essay competition shall be held among the children in the SAARC region in collaboration with the UNISDR.
Objectives
The objectives of the competition would be to:
To create awareness among the young generation about disaster risk reduction in the SAARC re…
This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.
Considering that “disasters are inevitable in countries with high vulnerability index” such as Bangladesh, more options to further reduce the impacts of disaster are important. “Building back better” after a disaster is one of those options – seizing the opportunity to correct the limitations and failures of previous practices, policies, and programs du…
GENEVA, 21 December 2011 – Members of parliament from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Senegal, Uganda and the East African Legislative Assembly came together in Geneva this week to agree on the establishment of a Global Advisory Group for parliamentarians with UNISDR’s Special Adviser on Parliamentarians, Feng Min Kan.
Saber Hossain Chowdhury, a member of parlia…
GENEVA, 22 March 2013 - Two of the world's most disaster-prone countries, Bangladesh and Brazil, today shared the biennial UN-Sasakawa Award which was presented to the laureates by the Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, in the presence of the sponsor and chairman of the Nippon Foundation, Yohei Sasakawa.
Mr. Sasakaw…