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January’s deadly storms across Western Europe and South-Eastern Africa offer a stark reminder of the reality of the climate crisis. Storm Ana, which raged through Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi...
The complexity of disaster response projects makes it hard for developers to understand how to develop effective digital tools that meet the needs of the users. Human Centered Design is a design and...
Co-Chairs: Your Excellency Marta Lucia Ramírez de Rincón, Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia; and Senator the Honourable Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign...
La AECID publica una guía para incorporar el medioambiente en la acción y las emergencias humanitarias La Guía propone enfoques, herramientas y buenas prácticas que contribuyen a generar un...
Las pruebas de aguas residuales pueden mejorar y potenciar la respuesta contra la COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe Las pruebas de aguas residuales ofrecen una forma relativamente económica para...
Wastewater testing can improve and enhance the response to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean Wastewater testing provides a relatively economic method whereby countries in Latin America and...
Dr Patrick Amoth, Chair of the Executive Board, Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Five years ago, you, the Member States gave me the honour of my life, when you placed your trust in me to...
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WHO Director-General outlines five priorities for world and for WHO going forward: Our commitment in the coming year – and in the coming five years – is to dramatically strengthen our ability to...
Introduction Disasters have been studied for centuries, but ‘modern’ disasters studies have arguably developed over the past half century or so. For instance, the journal Disasters began publication...
On 19 January, the International Recovery Forum 2022 concluded with a strong call to prioritize preparedness for recovery and invest in resilience before a disaster strikes. The Forum, which convened...
Events and concerns that will shape the World Food Programme’s climate action over the next 12 months *2021 was an unprecedented year of climate disasters, but also of action against climate change...
Introduction Annually, ADRC publishes the Natural Disaster Data Book to provide statistical perspectives in figures and tables of natural disaster data. ADRC obtains data from EM-DAT and analyses it...
Editorial From the ruins of Beirut to the flooded regions of la Roya and Germany, from the villages under attack in the Central African Republic to the at-risk zones of the Sahel, from the outskirts...
While hazards may be natural, disasters are not. The choices we make can either increase or decrease risk. As the planet slowly warms, parliamentarians can help. Indeed, they can L.A.B.O.R. for...
If the start to this decade has shown us anything, it is that we need to be adaptive and innovative in the way we face unforeseen situations. Key to this is ensuring that our focus on ‘local’,...
Executive Summary Disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change laws are part of a national framework of laws which need to work together to support women’s resilience. This report focuses on...
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Rome -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today welcomed a $10 million contribution from the United States of America to its COVID-19 response efforts and to help...
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La presente guía busca apoyar a los actores del sector público, ejecutores y gerentes de programas de infraestructura educativa en el fortalecimiento de la seguridad escolar desde la prevención y la...
The Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (APP-DRR) Forum concluded with a strong commitment to accelerate the implementation of the Sendai Framework by leveraging upcoming...
Feng Zhao, Sulzhan Bali, Rialda Kovacevic, Jeff Weintraub Correspondence to Dr Sulzhan Bali, Health, Nutrition, and Population, World Bank, Washington, DC 20443, USA; sbali@worldbank.org Abstract The...