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NEW YORK, 2 August 2013 – Why are persons with disabilities so disproportionately affected by disasters? This was the important, if often overlooked, question presented to the largest international meeting on disability issues, at the United Nations last week. The answer, simply put, is because disaster prevention measures are designed and implemented…
HELSINKI, 3 October 2016 –  The Finnish arm of an international grouping working to ward off biological and health threats such as Ebola and the Zika virus has won a pan-European award that recognises innovative approaches to reducing disaster risk. The Finnish Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) team received the Damir Čemerin Award at the openi…
Your Excellency Ms Pornprapai Ganjanarintr, Director-General, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand; Your Excellency Professor Piyasakol Sakolsatayadhorn, Minister of Health, Government of Thailand; Dr Bruce Aylward, Executive Director a.i. Outbreaks and Health Emergencies, World Health Organization (WHO);…
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GENEVA, 20 January 2016 – Climate change is raising the vulnerability of communities around the world to a raft of hazards, including drought, storms and floods which wreak havoc on food production and public health, according to the UN’s latest Human Development Report. The message of the UN Development Programme’s wide-ranging survey of the state of…
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NAIROBI, 10 June 2015 – A cholera outbreak in Kenya that is concentrated in the informal settlements shows how entrenched poverty can combine with poor urban planning to breed disasters. An estimated 3, 459 people have been infected with cholera in the outbreak of whom at least 72 have died across Kenya, according to the most recent update. Of Kenya’s…
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BANGKOK, 2 April 2012 - A visit to a disaster-resilient habitat in Bangladesh has prompted UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlström to acknowledge the south Asian country as leading developing nations in the global fight against climate change impacts. On the final day of a three day visit, she went Friday to the village of Bainpara, Dacope, in Khulna Division…
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GENEVA, 1 February 2012 - An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.” Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthqua…
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By Dizery Salim GENEVA, 10 November 2011 – Eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have agreed to tighten up on school safety while also integrating disaster risk reduction into the school curriculum, following high-level talks on education in Panama City. Between 1970 and 2009, over 32,000 schools in South America were damaged or destro…
A/CONF.172/11/Add.3: This paper addresses the vulnerability of modern societies through the concept of sustainable development, taking account of all elements that can influence the environment for urban planning and bearing in mind the objective of public safety and health. This paper is a summary of presentation by Mr. Philippe Masure, Internationa…
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This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters. This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
This document presents a simple approach to elaborate a scenario regarding the potential impacts of a tsunami in a city exposed to such a hazard. The approach has been tailored to span eleven typical development sectors which are present in every city such as health, education, housing, life-lines, transportation, telecommunications, industry, governmen…
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This Guide has been created to provide advice on useful strategies for implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA). It represents a distillation of the wealth of experience that exists throughout the world on how to manage and reduce disaster risks. The Guide can help state…
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This publication reports on the outcomes of a pilot project to ‘operationalize’ the Making Cities Resilient Campaign in three cities in Africa – Narok and Kisumu in Kenya and Moshi in Tanzania, commenced in 2012 by the UNISDR regional office for Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. It also describes disaster prevention activities undertaken by pilot cities, an…
Disaster Risk Management for Health Fact Sheets: This fact sheet about water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and disaster risk management for health is divided into four sections: i) Key points ii) Why is this important? iii) What are the health risks? iv) Risk management consideration. WASH key points: WASH saves lives in both routine and emergency situ…
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Disaster Risk Management for Health Fact Sheets: This fact sheet about radiation emergencies in disaster risk reduction for health is divided into four sections: i) Key points ii) Why is this important? iii) What are the health risks? iv) Risk management considerations. Radiation emergencies key points: radiation emergencies are a health risk to th…

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