Foreword At the World Food Programme (WFP), innovation has been at our core from the very beginning. For decades, WFP’s undeterred focus on reaching people in need has driven us to constantly look...
The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) with the technical participation of 28 countries conducted Regional Tsunami Disaster Rehearsal Program (Oct 13). The DMC said the program was conducted coinciding...
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When disaster strikes, the basics become critical — food, water, shelter, hygiene. We all do what we can to survive. But what happens if, when you're still in survival mode, you experience a second...
On September 28, 2018, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit the Minahasa Peninsula of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, at 18:02 local time. Its epicenter was only 70 km north of the provincial capital, Palu...
Disaster displacement is one of the world's biggest humanitarian and sustainable development challenges, and climate change and urbanisation are expected to aggravate the phenomenon. As part of the...
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By Hideki Mori, Yuka Makino (co-team leaders), Kenichi Nishkawa-Chavez, Rajib Shaw, Adea Kryeziu, Raiden Dillard, Thomas Vaughan Bowen, Barry Patrick Maher, Matthew Liam Hobson, Ana-Veronica Lopez,...
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The European Commission contributed to the efforts of establishing a regional Tsunami Warning System in the North East Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas region (NEAMTWS). In particular it...
Bangkok, Thailand / Central Sulawesi, Indonesia - On 28 September, 2018, a shallow 7.5 magnitude earthquake flattened communities in Central Sulawesi in Indonesia. The earthquake and tsunami it...
ACT Alliance has supported the communities that were affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in September 2018 through its members in Indonesia. Two years later, we went back to the people...
Rusmiati and her youngest daughter were at home when a series of powerful earthquakes struck north-western Indonesia. “My daughter and I were selling yellow rice when the earthquake struck, while my...
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (23 September 2020) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $500 million loan to provide Indonesia with quick access to emergency financing in the event of disasters...
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WASHINGTON, September 25, 2020 – The World Bank Treasury and the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)/Asia-Pacific Financial Forum co-organized a virtual workshop on catastrophe bonds for the APEC...
Introduction Disasters are the result of events that overwhelm local response capacity and impact social and economic development. Humanitarian response sets out to save lives and alleviate suffering...
14th September, 2020 The Governor of Vava’u and Chairman of the Vava’u District Emergency Management Committee (DEMC) Lord Fakatulolo officially opened a six-day Disaster Risk Management program for...
Indonesia, which is the world's largest island country and located between the Indian and the Pacific Ocean, regularly faces the hardship of many natural disasters, including earthquakes, tsunamis,...
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The Government of Switzerland has pledged USD300,000 in contributions for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Tsunami,...
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To mark “Earth Overshoot Day,” which lands on 22 August this year, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing alarming statistics about journalists who cover environmental stories. At least ten...
Two strong and close earthquakes of 6.9 M and 6.8 M at a depth of 26 and 22 km, occurred in the eastern Indian Ocean, approximately 139 km off the central coast of Bengkulu Province (southern...
As of 18 August, the Government of Indonesia has announced 141,370 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across all provinces of the country, with 6,207 deaths. The Government has also announced that 94,458...