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Displaying 50 of about 50 resultsRamallah, 26 January 2023, The cities of Palestine have joined the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) determined to enhance their understanding of risk reduction and resilience, to improve their strategic planning to reduce risk and build resilience, and to take actions and progress along the resilience roadmap. 23 Palestinian cities till now are on…
As a contribution to the Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction Network (DiDRRN), UNDRR Asia-Pacific collaborated with the ASB Office for Indonesia and the Philippines to produce a series of disaster preparedness guides for persons with disabilities. The guides consist of five illustrated pamphlets, each designed for a different type of disab…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…
GENEVA, 9 July, 2018 - Government ministers and civil servants from across Asia and the Pacific are back at their desks this week with a fresh mandate to accelerate action on reducing disaster losses and disaster displacement as extreme weather continues across the region.
The importance of the outcomes of the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster R…
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Asia-Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world, and increasingly, those disasters are occurring in urban settings. Cities face multiple hazards that threaten their social and economic development, these include storms, floods, heatwaves, earthquakes, and of course, pandemics.
Co-created by 11 international org…