Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- The purpose of this report is to provide an overview and an assessment of the level of inclusion of risk reduction and resilience measures in national policies and regulations for the protection of critical infrastructure in countries in Europe, Central Asia and the South Caucasus against disasters and the adverse impacts of climate change.The Sendai...
- EU4Schools, implemented by UNDP in Albania and funded by the EU up to US$77 million, reconstructs 58 education facilities, home to around 20,000 students and teachers.
- The impact Covid-19 has had on farmers has been devastating in Myanmar. And yet, in the least food-secure region in the country, the land has prospered.
- Climate projections show that heatwaves over the African continent will become hotter and more dangerous, particularly over Eastern and Southern Africa.
- Water shortages and scarcity in agriculture must be addressed immediately and boldly if our pledge to achieve the SDGs is to be taken seriously.
- Early warning systems, contingency planning and local action can strengthen West Africa's responses to increasingly frequent severe flooding.
- In 2019, Guatemala established the National Climate Change Information System to support evidence-based decision-making around climate change.
- This report addresses the topic of cross-border coordination of livestock movements and sharing of natural resources among pastoralist communities in the Greater Karamoja Cluster (GKC), a region that encompasses the southwestern parts of Ethiopia, northwestern Kenya, the southeastern parts of South Sudan and northeastern Uganda. The target...
- This report explores why wildfire is a significant risk factor and planning consideration across the United States, how the real estate community is responding with design methods, policies, and partnerships to mitigate the building damage, economic loss, and community trauma caused by wildfire, and what more can be done in the future. As...
- Through extensive research, analysis, and stakeholder consultation, the report aims to identify the high priority actions that we must collectively take now, for climate change adaptation and mitigation in food systems.Taken together, these actions are the basis of the systemic transformation that is needed in food systems. We propose...