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Webinar Recording   Webinar Description   This webinar aims to present the three tools developed and supported by the IFRC and its partners and how they can be used in strengthening urban resilience:  IFRC Alert Hub Initiative aims to protect lives and livelihoods by increasing the use of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), which is a standard IT…
Webinar Recording     Event Description   C40 Cities is one of the Core Partners of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030). This webinar aims to provide an introduction to C40 and the service offered by its Adaptation Programme and Climate Finance Facility which can support cities to progress along the resilience roadmap.  Experience from C40…
The DRR Capacity Building Programme in Somalia is funded by the Government of Italy and comes to revise, and update the National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy impact in line with the Sendai Framework for DRR and the Arab Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction; in addition, to develop a multi-hazard early warning feasibility study and a local disaster r…
After Hurricanes Iota and Eta ripped through Central America in 2020, many were forced to flee with little more than the wet clothes on their backs, leaving their houses destroyed and even bodies of family members buried in thick mud. Instead of returning to rebuild both their homes and their lives in the wake of the storms that wreaked billions of dol…
Click HEREfor registration and more information: Date & Time   Date: 15 June 2021 (Tuesday)Time: 8:00 Rio de Janeiro | 13:00 Barcelona/Brussels | 14:00 Nairobi | 20:00 IncheonDuration: 45 minutesLanguage: English, with simultaneous interpretation into French   Event Description   The project lab is part of the European Development Days' thema…
Registration CLOSED Date, Time and Venue   Date: 23 - 25 June 2021 Time: 13.00 - 17.00 hours (Bangkok Time, UTC+7) Venue: Virtually (Zoom)   Background   Rapid urbanisation has a potential to make countries productive and prosperous. On the other hand, at present, most of the cities are totally unprepared to handle multiple challenges associate…
With over 2400 participants from about 149 countries and territories, the first session of a new joint certification programme was held in June, focusing on an overall course introduction and key topics. Under the theme of “Build back better: Harnessing South-South cooperation and risk reduction planning for resilient and healthy cities in the post COVI…
Webinar Recording Event Description This webinar aims to introduce Resilient Cities Network (R-Cities), one of the Core Partners of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030), and the Urban Ocean Program, a program that helps cities build a resilient, equitable and circular waste management system to address ocean plastic waste. It includes presenta…
Webinar Recording   Event Description   The building and construction sector globally represents a huge contribution to climate change and environmental issues. The sector is responsible for close to 40% of energy-related carbon emissions, plus 40% of virgin raw material use. Decarbonising, restoring our natural environment and enhancing social ju…
      Background   Recognizing the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic in relation to the global outbreak of the COVID-19, UNDRR calls for disaster management agencies to give priority to biological hazards. Events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Ebola epidemics and Zika virus outbreaks underline how important it is to break down th…