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Vacancy
Closing date:
30 September 2016
United Nations Core Values: Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity Special Notice A complete online application (Cover Note and Personal History profile) is required. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.  The cover Note must include:  Title of degree you are currently pursuing;  Graduation date (when will you be…
The COVID-19 pandemic was in many an unexpected event that caught the world off guard. The World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risks Report, for example, did not include pandemics in its list of 10 most likely risks. However, while the pandemic was unexpected, it was not unavoidable. A number of global framework and guidelines were developed in recent…
Vacancy
Closing date:
18 February 2011
Vacancy notice: ISDR/C/04/2011 United Nations Core Values: - Integrity - Professionalism - Respect for diversity Background: The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduc…
Vacancy
Closing date:
24 January 2012
- Vacancy notice number: ISDR/C/05/2012 - Assignment start date: 1 February 2012 United Nations Core Values: Integrity • Professionalism • Respect for diversity Background The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multistakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technol…
Vacancy
Closing date:
10 October 2011
Vacancy Code VA/2011/SWOC/UNISDR/001 Background The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a strategic framework, adopted by United Nations Member States in 2000, aiming to guide and coordinate the efforts of a wide range of partners to achieve substantive reduction in disaster losses and build resilient nations and communities as an…
GENEVA, 9 March 2012 - The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, today paid tribute to the resilience of the Japanese people as they prepare to mark the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. She said: "One of the great learnings from the Great East Japan Earthquake an…
GENEVA, 29 October 2012 - The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, made a keynote address to last week's 5th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in which he explained why his administration has made "disaster reduction our top national priority." He said: "natural disasters in all its forms -- tsun…
GENEVA, 5 February 2013 - Heads of State, government ministers, parliamentarians, CEOs, scientists and civil society representatives will meet in Geneva in May to discuss a new global framework to reduce disaster risk. Some 3,000 people are expected to attend this fourth session of the Global Platform which will be the last to take place before the Wor…
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RIO DE JANEIRO, 22 June 2012 - The largest UN summit ever organized closes today with an urgent worldwide call for accelerated implementation of the international blueprint for disaster risk reduction agreed by all UN member States seven years ago. Against a backdrop of 1.3 million deaths, 4.4 billion people affected and $2 trillion in economic losses…
The Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction aims to continue the momentum into a durable and sustained effort from all actors - governments, NGOs and civil society, international agencies and organizations, academic and technical institutions, and the private sector - to take shared responsibility in reducing risks and reinforc…
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP), which takes place every two years, is the global forum for accelerating world-wide momentum on disaster risk reduction. As the primary gathering for the world’s disaster risk community, it brings together Governments, UN, international regional organizations and institutions, NGOs, scientific/academi…
The inaugural Women’s International Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) Leadership Awards have been granted to Ms. Vasiti Soko, Director of the National Disaster Management Office in Fiji, and Dr. Nuraini Rahma Hanifa, an earthquake scientist who founded U-INSPIRE Alliance which brings together young professionals in science, engineering and t…
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…
The Women's International Network on Disaster Risk Reduction (WIN DRR) is a professional network to support women working in disaster risk reduction, in all their diversity. The overall goal of WIN DRR is to empower women to attain leadership and enhance their role in decision-making in disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific. This booklet aims to pro…
Suva – The second Pacific Resilience Meeting (PRM) has closed, focusing on discussion and recommendations around the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific (FRDP)’s ten Guiding Principles and three Goals which fall into four ‘standards’ for resilience; Integrate, Include, Inform, and Sustain. The meeting, held virtually this time due to…

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