Countries on frontline of climate change expand early warning protection but progress nowhere near enough DUBAI, 3 December 2023 - More lives are being protected from extreme weather and dangerous...
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Countries on frontline of climate change expand early warning protection but progress nowhere near enough DUBAI, 3 December 2023 - More lives are being protected from extreme weather and dangerous...
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Author(s): Timothy Wilcox, Tejas Tamobhid Patnaik, Jutta May This regional snapshot report demonstrates the use and value of the SFM reporting data for strengthening disaster risk reduction (DRR) in...
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The CREWS 2022 Annual Report maps and illustrates how the Climate Risk Early Warning System (CREWS) initiative is making the world safer with early warning. It captures progress against key programme...
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Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems initiative brings message of hope In a year overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic fallout, 2021 nevertheless saw progress towards in...
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Introduction Introduction The Southeast Asian Nations are undergoing rapid socio-economic transformations with associated dynamic changes in the hazard, vulnerability and risk characteristics...
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Author: Omar Amach With national and international partners assembled, a new four-year project was officially launched at a virtual event, on Monday 4 October 2021, to strengthen multi-hazard early...
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KEY MESSAGES: advancing gender-responsive disaster risk reduction in the context of COVID-19 • LEVERAGE INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES AND MINIMUM STANDARDS ON GENDER EQUALITY The Convention on the...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting unique challenges to the protection of human rights around the world, including the Asia-Pacific region. This brief covers key human rights issues that have been...
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This report explores multiple and protracted displacements caused by natural hazard-related disasters in Asia-Pacific, including those influenced by climate change and climate variability. It...
Introduction Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a landlocked country located in Southeast Asia, bordering Thailand, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and China in the North. The total land area...
By Omar Hussein Amach VIENTIANE, 8 August 2019 – As the Government of Lao People's Democratic Republic continues its recovery from the floods of 2018, it is seeking to lessen the risk of future...
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By Andy McElroy BANGKOK, 15 December 2017 – Governments and stakeholder partners from across Asia have renewed their commitment to a substantial increase in the number of countries with national and...
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23 November 2016, LONDON – The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) welcomes a move by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to add the threats posed by natural and human-induced hazards to...
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By Denis McClean ISTANBUL, Turkey, 25 May 2016 - The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction has peppered the speeches of government representatives making commitments at the World Humanitarian...
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By Denis McClean GENEVA, October 13, 2014 - A tsunami of 4.5 million tweets rolled out across the world today in support of the 25th International Day for Disaster Reduction as UNISDR and HelpAge...
BANGKOK, 4 October 2012 - The UN disaster risk reduction chief today urged Asian and European Parliamentarians to work towards a new framework for action on disaster risk reduction that will protect...
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Forum Kicks-Off Efforts to Develop Regional Disaster Risk Financing Strategy JAKARTA, 8 November 2011 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), The World Bank, the Global Facility for...
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This is the 2nd edition of the Disaster Risk Management Program for Priority Countries, originally published by GFDRR in 2009. It now includes the country programs missing in the first edition...
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Foreword At its 5th meeting in copenhagen in november 2008, the GFDrr consultative Group asked the secretariat to focus on a select group of priority countries to achieve increased impact. in GFDrr’s...