Disaster Management

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23 Feb 2012
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Thailand
Special Report: PM Yingluck’s five-day flood tour

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Government of Thailand

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra went on a five-day flood tour in the North from February 13-17 to inspect the water management system and assign provincial governors to effectively impose flood prevention measures.

Ms Yingluck, along with cabinet ministers related to water management, inspected the water situation from upstream, middle-stream, and downstream.

23 Feb 2012
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Pakistan
NDMA and UN-HABITAT Pakistan hold a two day national conference “National Conference on Learning from Disasters” on disaster risk reduction under one UN DRM program from 22nd to 23rd February, 2012

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UN Human Settlements Program

UN-HABITAT, in collaboration with NDMA, has arranged a two-day conference on the 22nd and 23rd February, 2012 to focus both national and international attention on the post-disaster recovery process, specifically housing reconstruction and rehabilitation, based on the lessons learnt from the natural calamities that have affected the country since 2005.

23 Feb 2012
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World
and 4 others
USAID and University of Nebraska Partner to Optimize Use of Water Resources in the Middle East

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US Agency for International Development

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 17, 2012
Public Information: 202-712-4810

www.usaid.gov

23 Feb 2012
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occupied Palestinian territory
Workshop Report: Towards a Palestinian Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction

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UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
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The World Disaster Reduction Campaign...Making Cities Resilient

“My City is Getting Ready!”

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22 Feb 2012
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Mozambique
Storm and Cyclone - Emergency Appeal n° MDRMZ009

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IFRC
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This Emergency Appeal seeks CHF 2,728,741 in cash, kind, or services to support the Mozambique Red Cross Society (CVM) to assist 14,000 households (70,000 beneficiaries) for 12 months, and will be completed by the end of February, 2013. A Final Report will be made available by May 2013 (three months after the end of the operation).

In addition, the IFRC is soliciting CHF 62,373 to cover the cost of Shelter Cluster coordination; funds will be allocated to this component when partners expressly indicate their interest.

22 Feb 2012
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Philippines (the)
UNISDR welcomes Typhoon Sendong Post-Mortem

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UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

By Denis McClean

GENEVA, 22 February 2012 - The Head of the UN's Disaster Risk Reduction Office, UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, today congratulated three Philippines Senators for leading an in-depth, two-day post-mortem with local leaders into the devastating losses caused to Mindanao island by Typhoon Sendong in December.

22 Feb 2012
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Angola
and 8 others
Long Term Planning Framework Southern Africa 2012-2015

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IFRC
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Life remains a daily struggle for most communities across the region who live in abject poverty. An increase in the frequency, complexity and magnitude of natural disasters, influenced in part by climate change, and coupled with socio-economic shocks, pandemic diseases and endemic inequality, has exacerbated the vulnerability of millions across the region. The region features prominently in terms of prevalence rates for tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhoeal diseases and maternal and child mortality.

22 Feb 2012
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Ethiopia
Rangeland fragmentation in traditional grazing areas and its impact on drought resilience of pastoral communities

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CARE, Cordaid, MSF, Oxfam GB, Save the Children
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Lessons from Borana, Oromia and Harshin, Somali Regional States, Ethiopia

This Study on Ethiopia's Land Fragmentation in the drylands of the Horn of Africa and its effects on pastoral resilience. This is having a highly negative impact on pastoralism as an effective production system in these predominantly drylands areas,and increasing the vulnerability of those who rely on pastoralism for their food and livelihood security.

Organization Name Independent consultant Author Name Fiona Flintan , Boku Tache and Abdurehman Eid

22 Feb 2012
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Bangladesh
Dhaka ill-prepared for quakes

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Integrated Regional Information Networks

DHAKA, 22 February 2012 (IRIN) - Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, is ill-prepared for earthquakes due to lack of awareness and unplanned urbanization, say experts.

"Total disregard for the national building code by the builders has left Dhaka extremely susceptible," said earthquake expert and civil engineer Mehedi Ahmed Ansary, from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET).

Integrated Regional Information Networks:

A selection of IRIN reports are posted on ReliefWeb. Find more IRIN news and analysis at http://www.irinnews.org

Une sélection d'articles d'IRIN sont publiés sur ReliefWeb. Trouvez d'autres articles et analyses d'IRIN sur http://www.irinnews.org

This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

Cet article ne reflète pas nécessairement les vues des Nations Unies. Voir IRIN droits d'auteur pour les conditions d'utilisation.

21 Feb 2012
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World
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Citizens with a Mission: UNOSAT reveals new CyberMappr crowd-sourcing application

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UN Institute for Training and Research

The new application, called “CyberMappr”, has been developed within the Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC), created by UNITAR, CERN and University of Geneva as an incubator of new tools involving citizen-to-citizen cyberscience. CyberMappr uses the internet to connect volunteers to each other and to a group of expert analysts at UNOSAT with one common mission. The initiative gained support from Hewlett Packard and the Shuttleworth Foundation, which is known for its support to groundbreaking ideas especially in the area of data sharing at global scale.

21 Feb 2012
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World
A study of humanitarian financing for older people and people with disabilities, 2010–2011

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European Commission Humanitarian Aid department, Handicap International, HelpAge International
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Introduction

The purpose of humanitarian assistance is to enable people to survive crises and disasters, with an impartial focus on those who are most at risk. This study quantifies the funding provided by donors to meet the humanitarian needs of two of the most vulnerable groups: older people and people with disabilities. It does so by analysing the amount of humanitarian funding targeted at these two groups through the UN Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) and Flash Appeals in 2010 and 2011.

21 Feb 2012
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Somalia
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INTERVIEW-Politics of famine: is the f-word being overused?

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AlertNet

NAIROBI (AlertNet) - The word "famine" is politically charged, and rarely used – at least by government officials and aid professionals.

No government likes to hear it connection with its country. Neither do international donors, because the f-word implies a collective failure to prevent a huge humanitarian crisis.

Yet, just months after famine was declared in Somalia, some media reports are already warning of potential famines in Sudan and the Sahel.

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For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.trust.org/alertnet

21 Feb 2012
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China
CMA arranged the meteorological service of disaster prevention and reduction

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Government of the People's Republic of China

On February 20, the meteorological service work leading group of CMA held the 1st meeting of 2012 in Beijing. The meeting conveyed the demands of the Central Government as well as arranged the meteorological service of disaster prevention and reduction in 2012. The meeting was presided by Administrator of CMA Zheng Guoguang. Deputy administrators Jiao Meiyan and Yu Xinwen attended this meeting.

20 Feb 2012
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Jamaica
Jamaica NaSIMEX 2012 ends

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Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency

Bridgetown, Barbados, February 20, 2012, (CDEMA) - Jamaica’s National Earthquake and Tsunami Simulation Exercise 2012 (NaSIMEX 2012) concluded its final exercise on Thursday, February 16 at the Office of Disaster Preparedness & Emergency Management’s (ODPEM) headquarters. The table top exercise examined the development of a plan to ensure the most rapid response to international Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) teams to Jamaica in the after math of a major earthquake event.

20 Feb 2012
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Bulgaria
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Winter proves better planning needed in Europe

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UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

GENEVA, 20 February 2012 - Europe's vulnerability to disasters and the current tough winter "are a clear sign that we need to plan better and manage more robustly the risks we face," warns European Commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva, who is responsible for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response.

20 Feb 2012
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Philippines (the)
and 8 others
South-East Asian Nations Call for Greater Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction to Protect Economic Growth

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UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
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South-East Asian Nations Call for Greater Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction to Protect Economic Growth Bangkok (UN ESCAP Strategic Communications and Advocacy Section) – The 2011 floods that caused unprecedented devastation across South-East Asia have highlighted the need for stepped up investment in disaster risk reduction to protect social and economic assets, top government officials from the subregion agreed at a United Nations forum here today.

20 Feb 2012
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Uganda
Uganda, British Red Cross Societies conduct assessment for Disaster Risk Reduction interventions

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Uganda Red Cross

The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) recently conducted a baseline survey to strengthen its Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) interventions in Bududa and Manafwa Districts.

URCS with funding from DFID through British Red Cross is implementing short term and long term DRR initiatives that started in 2011 and will last until 2014.

A team from URCS, a representative from BRC Robert Roots met with communities to establish the needs that the DRR program should address.