Disaster Management

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KRCS Showcasing Services at Head teachers’ 38th Conference in Mombasa

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Kenya Red Cross

The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) through its Urban Risk Reduction Programme is committed to ensuring that school children who are the most affected whenever natural or manmade disasters occur are trained in basic First Aid skills. It is with this background that the KRCS set up a stand at the 38th Edition of the Kenya Secondary School Heads Conference from Monday 17th – Friday 21st June 2013 at White Waters Resort, Mombasa.

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Afghan Cities Sign Up for Resilient Cities

Five Afghan cities have joined the Making Cities Resilient Campaign hosted by the Kabul Municipality and Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA), in coordination with UN-Habitat and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNISDR.

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Improving resilience of agro-pastoralist communities through partnership

Maralal, Samburu County [ACTED News] – ACTED is currently implementing a project working with agro-pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya to build resilience as part of a 6-partner consortium. Activities include Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) and the development of Resource Sharing Agreements (RSAs). This project has been funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO). Mid June 2013, ECHO is conducting a field visit to Samburu County and East Pokot District to view ACTED’s work.

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Beneshangul Gumuz Region: Who Does What Where (3W) (as of 13 June 2013)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Haiti: Hurricane Sandy MDRHT010 Revised Emergency appeal

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IFRC

This Revised Emergency Appeal adjusts the appeal target downwards from 7,511,993 Swiss francs to 4,367,527 Swiss francs with operational changes based on detailed situation analysis. This amount excludes the Emergency Response Units (ERUs) value of 253,562 Swiss francs, which brings the operation budget to 4,621,089 Swiss francs.

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COPECO, alcaldías y cooperantes juntan esfuerzos para reducir riesgos en Honduras

Tegucigalpa 14 de Junio de 2013.- con la participación de 70 alcaldes, los municipios se preparan para enfrentar riesgos a desastres por cambio climático y establecer ciudades resilientes.

La resiliencia, es un conjunto de atributos y habilidades innatas para afrontar adecuadamente situaciones adversas, como factores estresantes y situaciones riesgosas. En este sentido, una ciudad resiliente, es aquella que genera respuestas adaptativas frente a situaciones de crisis o de riesgo.

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Niger + 1 other
Linking early warning to early action in the Sahel

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IRIN

DAKAR, 18 June 2013 (IRIN) - While aid agencies agree that early warning systems offer the chance to mitigate humanitarian crises, difficulty in funding pre-emptive measures and government sensitivities in admitting a looming disaster continue to hamper early action.

IRIN:

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.

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Armenia + 2 others
Improving rapid needs assessments in Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan

18 June, Yerevan – representatives from United Nations agencies, government and civil society organizations from Armenia, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan are taking part in a two-day workshop on rapid needs assessments in disaster response.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Somalia + 3 others
Humanitarian Implementation Plan (HIP) 2013 Horn of Africa (ECHO/-HF/BUD/2013/91000) Last update: 27/05/2013 Version 2

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0 . MAJOR CHANGE SINCE THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE HIP

In order to match the needs and current context in Somalia, it was decided to enable a transfer of EUR 11 700 000 form the Food Aid Budget Line to the Humanitarian Aid Budget Line.

This change aims at better reflecting the funding allocation to various planned Actions, following a thorough selection of partners and related proposals for Somalia.

Final allocation: (see attached report)

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Ban demande une réaction collective contre des crises de sécheresse plus fréquentes

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UN News Service

17 juin 2013 – A l'occasion de la Journée mondiale de lutte contre la désertification et la sécheresse, célébrée le 17 juin, le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, Ban Ki-moon, a rappelé les coûts sociaux, politiques et économiques de la sécheresse, « manifestes de l'Ouzbékistan au Brésil, du Sahel à l'Australie ».

Avec pour cri de ralliement « Ne laissons pas la sécheresse nous ravir notre avenir », la Journée mondiale de lutte contre la désertification de cette année s'attache à mettre l'accent sur les risques que la sécheresse et la pénurie d'eau font peser sur la planète.

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Cuba Wakes Up to Costs of Climate Change Effects

By Ivet González

HAVANA, Jun 17 2013 (IPS) - “How much is a species worth? What is the price tag on the services provided by a river or a forest?” These are the questions biologist María Elena Perdomo is asking to encourage Cubans to take account of environmental costs, which may apparently be incorporated in the present economic reforms.

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Chad + 3 others
Tchad Bulletin humanitaire - mai 2013

FAITS SAILLANTS

• L’accès aérien à Tissi reste un défi pour les acteurs humanitaires.

• La récente escalade de violence entre Boko Haram et l'armée nigériane a fait fuir plus d’un millier de migrants tchadiens à Ngouboua, dans la région du Lac.

• De la période des récoltes jusqu’au mois de mars, voire avril pour certains marchés sahéliens, les prix sont restés relativement stables avec une légère tendance à la baisse.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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On World Day, UN officials urge global action to increase response to drought

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UN News Service

17 June 2013 – Countries must work collectively to build resilience and prepare themselves against drought, United Nations officials stressed today, highlighting the extensive costs of this global threat.

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Cambodia + 1 other
USAID announces funding for the humanitarian response forum in Cambodia

For Immediate Release
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Sean McIntosh
855-23 728-000

On May 31, 2013, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that its Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Relief Assistance (OFDA) is providing $200,000 to support the Humanitarian Response Forum (HRF) in Cambodia. The HRF will strengthen emergency preparedness in the country by enhancing coordination and communication among humanitarian organizations based in Cambodia.

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Launch of the IFRC and Iranian Red Crescent partnership on urban disaster risk reduction and management

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IFRC

Today more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, with an additional two billion urban residents expected in the next 20 years. Much of the population growth is expected in small and medium-sized cities in developing countries, yet 1.2 billion urban residents already live in slums, and this too is expected to grow.

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Developer unveils vision of cities as havens during disasters

By Yuki Matsuoka

TOKYO, 17 June 2013 - An innovative urban developer in one of the world's most hazard-prone countries has urged public and private sector leaders to embrace his company's vision of building cities that 'people escape to rather than run away from' during disasters.

At the Japanese launch of the 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2013, Shuichi Sano, Senior General Manager of Mori Building, spoke directly to the report's title 'From Shared Risk to Shared Value: the Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction'.

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Democratic Republic of Congo: Population Movement Emergency appeal n° MDRCD013, Operation update n°2

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IFRC

Period covered by this Ops Update: 28 April to 12 June 2013.

Appeal target (current): CHF 1,122,910

Appeal coverage: 44%;

Appeal history:

• This Emergency Appeal was initially launched on 27 March, 2013 for CHF 1,122,910 for 6 months to assist 15,000 beneficiaries.

• Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF): CHF 150,000 was initially allocated from the Federation’s DREF to support the national society to respond.

• Emergency Appeal Operations Update no.1 was published on May 16 2013.

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OCD partners with PHAP for disaster risk reduction

By Leonard T. Pineda I

ILOILO CITY, June 15 (PIA6) -- The Office of Civil Defense-6 (OCD-6) launched its partnership program with the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) Cares Foundation in Calinog town here to prepare the public for disasters.

The project dubbed “Pagpakigbuylog sa Pagpangaman” seeks to strengthen the capacities of local disaster risk reduction and management council (LDRRMC) of the pilot area to reduce their risks to disasters by ensuring a community of healthy constituents.

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Nigeria Braces for Flood Season

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Voice of America

Heather Murdock

ABUJA — Last summer, Nigeria suffered its worst floods in 40 years. Hundreds of people were killed and millions more were displaced. Authorities say this year’s flooding could be just as extreme in some places, and worse in others. But many of the flood victims have not recovered from last year’s devastation.

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Hungary + 2 others
Europe: Floods Are Here to Stay

BUDAPEST, Jun 15 2013 (IPS) - Record floods in Central and Eastern Europe have highlighted some of the challenges of climate change for the continent, as well as the floods’ potential to spur populist politics.

An extraordinarily long winter followed by weeks of intense rains has saturated soils and caused large rivers, such as the Danube and the Elbe, to overflow. The floods have wreaked havoc in the region, killing 21 people and forcing the evacuation of several tens of thousands.