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Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 11:00 am (EST) Plataform: Zoom. Registration link: https://undrr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsduGppzsjE9BmlsQJiD1PGX9xTvp69UmE Event available in English and Spanish   In the Americas and the Caribbean, sustainable development is linked to the development of their cities. In an urban region, cities are the scena…
Whether refugees living in overcrowded camps or jobless migrant workers forced to return home, the lives of millions of people in Asia-Pacific are threatened by the dangerous combination of displacement and the COVID-19 pandemic. Congested settlements, inadequate access to healthcare, lack of information, stigma and discrimination are just some of the i…
This white paper argues that improving the region’s resilience and sustainability requires a holistic, systems approach and integrated prospective action that recognizes the impact of the various underlying conditions and vulnerabilities on amplifying disaster risks, and their link to growing trends of interconnected food and energy insecurities, and mi…
With the right policies and planning, hazards like storms and wildfires need not always lead to homelessness By Mami Mizutori, UN-SRSG for Disaster Risk Reduction. and Alexandra Bilak, Director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Two months since Cyclone Idai struck the southeast African nation of Mozambique in mid…
The International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has joined the MCR2030 initiative as a supporting entity. MCR2030 is UNDRR’s flagship program, building on the achievement of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign that began in 2010. It welcomes cities, local governments, and all parties who…
By Mami Mizutori It is just over three years since United Nations Member States adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global plan to reduce disaster losses, which is pivotal to the success of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It focuses primarily on prevention, aiming to recognize and nullify disaster r…
By Mami Mizutori No other region in the world illustrates the now chronic nature of displacement caused by extreme weather events and climate change more than Asia and the Pacific. Last year, 18.8 million people were forced to run for their lives from floods, storms and earthquakes in 135 countries across the globe. Once again, it was the most disast…
(Check against delivery) Commemoration of the adoption of the Sendai Framework, Paris Agreement and the Nansen Initiative in 2015 REMARKS BY MAMI MIZUTORI UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION 4 FEBRUARY 2021 – Excellency, Prime Minister of Fiji, Ambassador Francois Rivasseau, Ambassador Nazhat Sh…
GENEVA - The COVID-19 pandemic is causing enormous hardship for millions of migrants and displaced who need to be included in both response and economic mitigation measures being put in place across Asia and the Pacific, the world’s most disaster-affected region. “This pandemic has exposed us to what a future 21st century disaster would look like. We c…
As climate change intensifies, extreme weather events, such as floods, storms, bushfires and heatwaves are forcing millions from their homes each year. In 2018, disasters displaced 17.2 million people from their homes, 90 per cent fled weather and climate-related hazards. There were 1,600 recorded disaster events over the course of 2018 but the real n…
Explore the multimedia version Forced displacement is one of the most common and immediate impacts of disasters. Facilitating people’s movement to avoid their exposure to life-threatening situations via evacuations or planned relocations is one of the most effective ways of reducing mortality and injury. Having to flee one’s home, however, particularly…
Time 09:00-16:00 GMT+7 (Bangkok)Background & IntroductionOver the past ten years, there have been over 225 million internal displacements as a result of disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2022 alone, there were 22.6 million internal displacements as a result of disasters in the Asia-Pacific region, more than 70 percent of the global total. Int…

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