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Displaying 60 of about 139 resultsGENEVA, 3 March 2016 – Australia could see its annual disaster bill rise nearly fourfold by 2050, with the cost of social impacts such as stress-related illness playing a significant role, two reports commissioned by the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience and Safer Communities warn.
Issued just two weeks before the first anniversary…
GENEVA, 21 June 2013 - Two countries sitting at opposite ends of the world are emerging as beacons of good practice in terms of innovative public-private partnerships that have been proven to reduce disaster risk.
More than 18,000km separates New Zealand from Scotland but the two countries are much closer when it comes to pursuing proactive partnership…
TOKYO, 17 June 2013 - An innovative urban developer in one of the world's most hazard-prone countries has urged public and private sector leaders to embrace his company's vision of building cities that 'people escape to rather than run away from' during disasters.
At the Japanese launch of the 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 20…
GENEVA, 23 May 2013 - The three-day 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, attended by a record 3,500 people and representatives from 172 governments, ended today with a call for "the immediate start of work to develop targets and indicators to monitor the reduction of risk" in the Chair's Summary at the closing plenary.
Global Platform Chai…
Background
According to recent figures, in 2011, there were a total of 302 disaster events in 98 countries, which killed 29,782 people, affected about 260,00 people and caused economic losses estimated at US$ 366 billion. The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) indicated that the Americas ranked second in the terms of global occ…
The Arab region joins the rest of the world in facing an increase in natural hazards. The region is characterized by its harsh environment and has limited resilience to natural hazards events, which results in an increase in the number of natural disasters in the region. These disasters result from a group of factors including the increase in population…
India has been one of the most impacted countries by the COVID-19 pandemic, both in terms of the number of cases, which now top 4 million, and the socio-economic losses resulting from the crisis.
In the midst of these challenges, India’s private sector has emerged as a vital resource to building local resilience, with benefits extending to across the…
BANGKOK - The Regional Office for Asia and Pacific of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), announces the launch of an online training course to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) build their business resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The…
Responsibilities
The position is located in the Geneva office of the UNISDR secretariat. Under the overall guidance of the Director, the Chief will:
• Providing policy guidance to the Director and developing forward-looking strategic proposals on conceptual strategy development and implementation of the UNISDR Strategic Framework 2012-2025, biennial w…
By Mami Mizutori, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
Extreme weather events were seen as the most prominent risk in the World Economic Forum’s 2018 Global Risks Report. Whether it’s the threat of a flood, storm, earthquake, pandemic or man-made hazard, building the resilience of your business t…
A statement in which the participants of the 4th Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), including governments, intergovernmental regional organizations, bilateral and multilateral donors, United Nations, academic and technical institutions, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Government Organizations, mayor…
SM Prime’s (shopping mall company) commitment in building safer and disaster‐resilient malls was considered in SM Cabanatuan by consciously and decisively designing the mall to allow overflowing creek floodwater during extreme floods into the mall property. The lower ground structure also serves as a temporary flood catchment which minimized the level o…
The present report constitutes the Mid-Term Report submitted to the World Bank by the UNISDR secretariat for the World Bank’s Development Grant Facility (DGF) FY08.
Through Track-I, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) responds to disaster risk reduction needs at the global and regional levels in line with the Hyogo Framework for…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster reduction for resilience and; (iv) Enhancing disaster p…
This UNISDR Europe Office annual report focuses on achievements in 2013.
The delivery of results is described in the order of the four Strategic Objectives of the UNISDR Strategic Framework 2012-2015: Lead and Coordinate, Credible Evidence, Advocacy and Outreach, and Deliver and Communicate Results.
The achievements reported show that great strides ha…