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Osman Consulting going to Viet Nam

Osman Consulting wrote 2 days ago: Osman Consulting Director Moustafa Osman will (again) be working with the Ministry of Education and … more →

Tags: News, disaster management, disaster, Disaster Response, moustafa osman, inee, Vietnam, Flood, UNESCO

Vice-President U Nyan Tun inspects disaster risk reduction, evacuation works

peacerunning wrote 3 days ago: Nay Pyi Taw, 14 May Chairman of National Natural Disaster Preparedness Central Committee Vice-Presid … more →

Tags: Burma, Myanmar, Vice President, Rakhine State, U Nyan Tun, evacuation works, relief camp, Dhapein village

Meeting prep: UNPFII 12

Elsa Tsioumani wrote 3 days ago: Twelfth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 20-31 May 2013 (UN Headquarters, New Yor … more →

Tags: Biodiversity, climate change, Culture, development, Education, Indigenous and local communities, language, Meeting Documents & Reports, Mining

DRR doesn’t always get sufficient funding - Sometimes the donors don’t put a priority on disaster risk

African Press International wrote 3 days ago: AQABA, – Investing in preparation for potential disasters is a “no brainer”, Elizabeth Longwor … more →

Tags: AA > NEWS and NEWS ANALYSIS, irin, japan international cooperation agency, Aqaba, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, UNDP, Mena, DRR

From Science to Action: Lessons learnt from Haiti

cgsleeds wrote 5 days ago: Eric Calais Recently we had our first joint Climate and Geohazard Services (CGS) and Institute of Ge … more →

Tags: Earthquake, geohazard, disaster, Earthquake, Haiti, United Nations

NATIONAL PLATFORM OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

rajukolandhai wrote 5 days ago: NATIONAL PLATFORM OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION  National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction conferen … more →

Tags: Indian_Geography

Investing in preparation for potential disasters is a “no brainer”, Elizabeth Longworth, Director of UNISDR

African Press International wrote 6 days ago: Analysis: Getting governments to cough up for DRR By John James Photo: Jason Gutierrez/IRIN Survivor … more →

Tags: AA > NEWS and NEWS ANALYSIS, Aqaba, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, emergency management, irin, japan international cooperation agency, Jordan Ryan, UNDP

Science and sc...

cgsleeds wrote 1 week ago:   Science and scientists are needed on the scene of disaster risk reduction! Eric Calais … more →

Tags: Risk

Resource: UNU-IAS TK and climate science toolkit

Elsa Tsioumani wrote 2 weeks ago: Traditional Knowledge and Climate Science Toolkit Williams, C; Galloway McLean, K; Raygorodetsky, G; … more →

Tags: climate change, publications, traditional knowledge, Indigenous and local communities, unu

The Dark Side of NGOs

theColorOfRed wrote 3 weeks ago: How many NGOs and civil society groups are there in the country? The list with DSWD is a lengthy hun … more →

Tags: poverty, Humanitarian Aid, Institutions, Disasters, NGOs, Civil Society, and decent work policies, the dark side of NGOs, Aid Effectiveness

The Letter from CEDAR | April 2013

cedarfund wrote 1 month ago: Yunnan pastors map out the progress and achievement to evaluators on their social ministries in the … more →

Tags: Publication, Letter from CEDAR, Human Trafficking, Myanmar, China, Yunnan, chan nim chung, orphans, Northern Thailand

SUPPORT THE MORONG DRRM AGENDA1 comment

morong volunteers wrote 1 month ago: SUPPORT THE MORONG DRRM AGENDA An Appeal to All Voters and Candidates in the coming May 13, 2013 Loc … more →

Tags: morong volunteers, morong, Oxfam Great Britain

Making Resilience A Reality: "Don't Live With It, Deal With It."

Hannah Tankard wrote 1 month ago: 2015 may seem a long time away for the majority, but in the developing and disaster risk reduction s … more →

Tags: disaster, Adaptation, development, climate change, Resilience

‘Post-2015’: Failing to address disaster risk is not an option | UNDP

friscolando wrote 1 month ago: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourperspective/ourperspectivearticles/2013/03/13/-post-2015 … more →

Tags: disaster

Resilience: too accurate to be useful?1 comment

Phil Vernon wrote 2 months ago: Resilience is a wonderful metaphor. It somehow conveys in a single word the qualities of bending wit … more →

Tags: climate change, .:*Conflict*:., governance, International Development, Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, Andrew Nathan, household livelihood security, IDPs

This week in review … Participatory 3D modeling merges conventional spatial information systems with locals’ TK

Elsa Tsioumani wrote 2 months ago: Putting Local Climate Know-How on the Map IPS, 6 March 2013 KINGSTOWN, ST. VINCENT: A new weapon in … more →

Tags: Biodiversity, climate change, Education, Indigenous and local communities, Marine, News Alerts, traditional knowledge

Disaster Risk Reduction - What's that? Read on...

cafodmiddlesbrough wrote 2 months ago: Gappers, Laurence and Naomi with Edward Musa, Andrew Aruna and Amadu Kakay of Caritas Kenema News fr … more →

Tags: CAFOD Middlesbrough, Overseas news, Step into the Gap, Sierra Leone

Haiti Humanitarian Assistance in Review, January 2010 – present | ReliefWeb

Rapadoo Observateur wrote 2 months ago: USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) not only responds to urgent needs re … more →

Tags: Haiti, Francais, Politics, Human Rights Haiti, 2010 haiti earthquake, United States Agency for International Development, emergency management, ReliefWeb, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance

Desperate times

celsodulce wrote 2 months ago: We are in desperate times. Desperate people are resorting to desperate measures. Despite dire predic … more →

Tags: climate change, disaster, ecosystem management and restoration, Emergency Response, Environment, Flood, Food Security, magnetite sand, Mining


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