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Agnes Titus, Nazareth Centre for Rehabilitation in Bougainville
Updates

Women’s Leadership in the Pacific: Trailblazer opens world of disaster management to women

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, women leaders in the Pacific have been able to carve a larger space to bring the voices and perspectives of women and girls to the policy tables and influence disaster preparedness and response. Ms Agnes Titus, of
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[UNDRR GETI, UNDRR ROAF, UNDRR ROAS & UCLG Africa Online Training] Online Capacity Building Workshop on Urban Risk-Informed Planning and Making Cities Resilient

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States
United Cities and Local Governments - Africa
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[UNDRR GETI, WHO & UNITAR Curso en Línea] Resiliencia de los Gobiernos Locales: Un Enfoque Multisectorial para integrar la Salud Pública y la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
World Health Organization
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
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[UNDRR GETI, WHO & UNITAR E-learning Course] Resilience of local governments: A multi-sectoral approach to integrate public health and disaster risk management

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
World Health Organization
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
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[UNDRR GETI, UNOSSC & PAHO Joint Online Training] Making Cities Resilient: Developing and implementing local disaster risk reduction strategy to respond to COVID-19 and to better prepare for the future

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation
Pan American Health Organization
Cover of report showing a local leaders leading a preparedness exercise.
Documents and publications
Reports

Local Leadership for Disaster Resilience: Profiles from Asia and the Pacific

Disaster risks are growing more intense, complex, and unpredictable. This growing unpredictability and intensity of extreme events, in the midst of increasingly complex socio-economic dynamics fuelled by growing inequalities, call for a new approach to

Photos of U-Inspire national chapters in Nepal, India and Indonesia
Updates

National chapters from the U-INSPIRE Alliance start to log their voluntary commitments

U-INSPIRE India, Nepal, and Indonesia have become the first national chapters of an alliance of youth and young professionals to register their work in UNDRR's Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments online platform.
VII Regional Platform will be held in 2021
Press Releases

VII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean to be held in 2021

The Government of Jamaica, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) - Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) are pleased to announce that the VII Regional
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[UNDRR GETI & UNITAR E-learning Course] Making cities resilient: Developing local disaster risk reduction and resilience strategies (2020 Fall Edition)

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Office in Incheon for Northeast Asia and Global Education and Training Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
Covid-19: a risk context magazine
Documents and publications
Newsletter

UNDRR Americas & Caribbean Magazine: COVID-19, a risk context

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the fragility of our global networks. A health crisis has shocked economies, policies, governance, trade, infrastructure. In short, it has changed today’s society and may well leave a significant mark on the shaping of