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Displaying 60 of about 95 resultsMCR2030-AMC announces a short video contest 'Voices of the Community in the Americas and the Caribbean - Getting Ready for a Resilient Future', where local voices can tell a story, share ideas, practices, and experiences of their community in the theme of disaster risk reduction and resilience. Winner videos will be featured and credited across the Amer…
To develop and enhance resilience, the best way forward is to create a system that helps us anticipate and identify different future possibilities and helps to navigate the challenges and uncertainties of today. In support of this approach, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Regional Science Bureau for Asia and…
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Remarks by the SRSG Mami Mizutori
The Virtual Caribbean Safe School Initiative (CSSI) Pre-Ministerial Forum
March 15, 2021 (Virtual Meeting)
Topic: Regional Review on School Safety in the context of Systemic Risk
Distinguished Honorable Curtis King, Ministry of Education of St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Di…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to disaster preparedness and response. In planning safe evacuation from disaster events, physical distancing and hygiene practices need to be observed. As a result, disaster and tsunami preparedness plans need to be reviewed and updated to address the challenges brought about by the current pandemic. In v…
Dear Future World Leaders,
I am sure you are all closely watching the way the world’s leaders are handling the current global Covid-19 crisis and thinking about what you would do differently. Believe me when I say, the speeches you are hearing daily are the type of speeches leaders hope they will never have to make. But, unless we all make some major a…
UNDRR ROAMC, UNICEF, UNESCO & IFRC Webinar - Youth engagement in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2020.
Languages:
English and Spanish (simultaneous translation).
Countries within Latin America and the Caribbean are vulnerable to a range of natural hazards including droughts, floods, hurricanes, earthq…
This document is the eleventh in a series of special topics for consideration, as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment published by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction to inclusive risk assessment, which pays special consideration for marginalized and vulnerable populations such as women (an…
In December 2015, a resolution jointly proposed by 142 countries including Japan on the creation of a World Tsunami Awareness Day, was adopted by consensus at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The objectives of the World Tsunami Awareness Day are to raise public awareness of the risk caused by tsunamis and to enhance tsunami prepa…
This paper presents the education kit entitled “Riskland: the fun way to learn how to prevent disasters” which was created in 2002 by the Latin American and the Caribbean Offices of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), and the United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF). It was designed for children between 8 and 12…
This paper reviews progress in the integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) into Australian school curricula programs and support materials since 2005. Researchers such as Ronan and Johnston (2005) stress the importance of school disaster education and the youth-school-family network in building community resilience to disasters.
The find…
This essay illuminates four reoccurring obstructions to transitioning the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) into grassroots praxis and offers empirical case studies to highlight these: community ownership of risk, youth involvement, bipartisan support for implementation, and holistic development funding.
The author proposes the following to ov…
Kobe, 25 June 2019 – The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitment (SFVC) first Synthesis and Analysis Report was launched in Geneva during the recent Global Platform. Voluntary Commitments (VCs) are made by multiple stakeholders (private sector, local governments, civil society organizations, academia, media, etc.) in support of the implementation of the S…
KOBE, Japan, 28 December 2016 – Hundreds of university students from around the world have set their sights on reducing the risk of disasters, during the first-ever edition in Japan of the National Model United Nations.
The 350 students from institutions in 11 countries – Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Japan, Philippines, Ru…
CANCUN, Mexico, 25 May 2017 – A major initiative to prevent large numbers of women and girls dying in disasters and to ensure they are included in disaster risk management was launched today at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Cancun, Mexico, by the United Nations and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies…
13 November 2017: Students from 26 countries came together last week for a pioneering event to mark World Tsunami Awareness Day in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture in Japan.
The spirit of “Yui Maaru” which means mutual support and bonds between people in the Okinawan dialect, was at the heart of the High School Students Islands Summit for World…