Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- Affected country: Guinea Glide: EP-2021-000016-GIN
Health authorities in Guinea today declared an outbreak of Ebola in the rural community of Gouéké in N’Zerekore prefecture after three Ebola cases were confirmed by the national laboratory, marking the first time the disease has been reported…
- One big question remains: Once the virus was in the U.S., how much impact did international travel actually have on COVID-19 cases and deaths?
- New research found drought and heatwaves intensify the drying of dead bushfire fuel, and can lead to “megafires”.
- Incident management teams in Colorado had no multilingual members, information was not translated into Spanish and emergency response lacked cultural sensitivity.
- The international community needs to be warned that future pandemics could occur more frequently and affect the global economy with more devastating impact than Covid-19.
- Eloise hit poor communities in central Mozambique that had barely recovered from cyclone Idai in 2019, which killed more than 1,000 people
- WMO is supporting the first-ever national strategic plan to strengthen Haiti’s Hydro-Meteorological Service.
- This report shares highlights from this work, to document and share the approaches that have worked as countries navigate their often challenging—but absolutely critical—National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes. The NAP Global Network hopes to use the lessons from our first five years to build on and better support countries to tackle...
- This dataset proposes a method that combines different drought indices (SPI, soil moisture anomalies and fAPAR anomalies) in order to identify areas affected by agricultural drought and also areas with the potential to be affected. Drought monitoring is based on various indices: the standardized precipitation index (SPI), which shows the deviation from...
- This report aims to provide an overview of the gender and climate resilience nexus in the Caribbean and provide gender-inclusive recommendations for climate resilience programmes in the region. This report has been developed within the context of the Caribbean Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) to support gender mainstreaming into the regional...