The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...
Schools should be one of the safest places where children can be. However, that is simply not the case for many children around the world. Climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of ...
We’re launching the first Disaster Risk and Age Index at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, 14-18 March. The Index ranks 190 countries across the world on the disaster ...
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 ...
This article is authored by Praveen Suresh, manager, disaster response, Humane World for Animals, India.
The human and environmental cost of climate change is all around us, and on the rise. The UN reports about 90% of all disasters are weather-related, and that weather and climate are major drivers of ...
This International Day of Disaster Reduction, I was thinking about the theme of children and young people being partners in disaster risk reduction and how it applies to my own experience working in ...
The panel noted that J&K's response capacity is supported by SDRF battalions, NDRF deployment and coordination with the Army ...
Keywords: Grand Challenges for Disaster Reduction. Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction (SDR). Multihazard approaches. Loss assessment methodologies. Intelligent structures. Lifelines. Disaster ...
Since 2011, more than 9000 people have died in four major typhoons in the Philippines. The lives of millions of other Filipinos have also been impacted by the thousands of other small disasters that ...
The Morocco Integrated Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Program has helped strengthen Morocco’s disaster and climate resilience by promoting the development of a national Disaster Risk ...
East Asia Pacific is the most disaster-stricken region in the world. According to a regional disaster risk management study from 2013, between 2000 and 2011, more than 1.6 billion people have been ...
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