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- Buenavista community worked alongside UNHCR and ACOORD to prepare for and respond to future emergencies in natural disasters.
- Key national stakeholders simulate night-time eruption of Piparo Mud Volcano, allowing participants to test and asses the national incident management system.
- Tsunami evacuation drill was carried out by nearly 300 residents of Popua and Patangata, improving preparedness and coordination between communities and responders.
JAKARTA, 28 November 2019 - Since its creation in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has doubled in size and grown in influence to become the leading regional organization for multilateral cooperation. Along with this growth, attention turned to addressing impediments to the social and economic prosperity of its member states. Chief among them is the threat of disasters,…
- California's wildfires will increase the risk of mudslides, as heat from fires makes the top soil layer less permeable. Those living near mountains are most at risk.
- This report explores how upgrading informal settlements can simultaneously help in achieving climate resilient, inclusive and low carbon development leading to multiple benefits. Upgrading is a process of improving living conditions in informal settlements, often by providing shelter and services while supporting economic development via stronger links...
- A new framework to support the national and local capacity building plan for disaster risk management (DRM) in Cameroon is presented. For the past 30 years, after the general re-organisation of the civil protection department, capacity building programmes for DRM has been solely carried out for and by the Ministry of Territorial Administration and the...
- This brief discusses the establishment of a geospatial database to help Maldives integrate climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in development planning.It explains how technical assistance helped build a geospatial database on coastal and marine ecosystems and how climate risk screening was tested on selected development projects. It...
- Over the course of 2016-19, the Z Zurich Foundation invested USD 10 million through the Global Resilience Partnership’s Water Window to enhance community resilience to floods. This report highlights the achievements of the projects that together positively impacted more than half a million people.
- Within the Programme “Building Disaster Resilience to Natural Hazards in Sub-Saharan African Regions, Countries and Communities ”, UNDRR and CIMA Research Foundation organized a five-day Study Tour in Europe – namely Italy and Brussels - for members of African countries. Delegations from ACP-EU four target countries: Republic...