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Sri Lanka + 1 other
IOM and AusAid Support Sri Lankan Fishermen

Over 100 impoverished families in Northern Sri Lanka are set for a boost thanks to IOM and the Australian Government, who will hand over vital infrastructure to a fishing community in Senthankulam, near Jaffna on Monday 10th December.

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World + 10 others
Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century

Report
World Bank, GFDRR

Century Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to manage the risk of floods. It takes a strategic approach, in which appropriate risk management measures are assessed, selected and integrated in a process that both informs and involves the full range of stakeholders.

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Afghanistan + 9 others
Asia-Pacific countries agree on ways to step up cooperation on disaster risk reduction

Date: 1 July 2011
Press Release No: G/27/2011

Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – Asia-Pacific countries ended three days of talks at a United Nations forum here today, agreeing to work more closely together on disaster risk reduction and make this central to national development strategies.