Search

By content type

By theme

By hazard

By region

By year

Results for " "

Displaying 2 of about 2 results
News

One year after: Nepal starts to build back better

GENEVA, 28 April 2016 -  One of the world’s most ambitious low-cost housing reconstruction programmes ever to be undertaken in a seismic zone is due to get underway this week following first anniversary of the 25 April Nepal earthquake. Nepal’s new Reconstruction Authority and its partners are embarking on a programme to provide over 500,000 low-c…
News

Fifth anniversary of tsunami underlines risk of complex disasters

11 March 2016, TOKYO – The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Mr. Robert Glasser, today attended the 5th anniversary memorial service for those who lost their lives in the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011. Mr. Glasser said: “On this solemn occasion I would like to extend the sympathies of the UN Secreta…

Is this page useful?

Yes No
Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).