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UN/ISDR
International Environment
House II,
7-9 Chemin de Balexert, CH 1219 Chatelaine, Geneva 10, Switzerland
New phone and fax numbers:
Tel: +41 22 917 8908/8907
Fax: +41 22 917 8964
isdr@un.org
Postal Address:
UN/ISDR
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland |
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United Nations
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The second session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction Geneva, Switzerland, during the week of 15 - 19 June 2009.
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum on disaster risk reduction. At its first session in June 2007, it brought together representatives of governments, UN agencies, regional bodies, international financial institutions, civil society, the private sector and the scientific and academic communities to raise awareness on disaster risk, to share experience and to guide the ISDR system with a view to supporting countries to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action.
www.preventionweb.net/globalplatform |
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Gender Perspectives: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into
Climate Change Adaptation - 2008
Good Practices and Lessons Learned
This publication points out the vital nexus between women’s experiences of
natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk
reduction, and how they can come together to make whole communities
strong and sustainable. It also provides inspirational case studies of rassroots
women’s leadership, and of ways to support and encourage women’s full
participation as citizens in risk reduction, climate change adaptation,
development, and disaster preparedness. The case studies also point to
practical tools for implementing gender equality and mainstreaming gender
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Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction:
Good Practices and lessons Learned from Experiences in the Asia-Pacific Region 2008
Even before we came up with high technology based early warning systems, or standard operating procedures for response, numerous local communities worldwide have prepared, operated, acted, and responded to natural disasters using indigenous methods passed on from one generation to the next. The publication "Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from experiences in the Asia-pacific Region", produced with the assistance of the European Union, aims to build awareness for indigenous knowledge as an effective tool for reducing risk from natural disasters. By improving the understanding of indigenous knowledge and providing concrete examples of how it can be successfully used, this publication can help all practitioners and policy makers to consider the knowledge hold by local communities and act to integrate this wealth of knowledge into future disaster-related work. |
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Towards National Resilience -2008
Good practices of National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction”
Governments increasingly recognize the need for comprehensive multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral national coordinating mechanisms – National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction - to reduce, prevent and manage the impact of natural hazards. 45 countries have already launched National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction. Several other countries are in a process of establishing them. In an effort to inspire and support the birth of new National Platforms, and also to strengthen existing ones, the UN/ISDR secretariat launches its new publication featuring nine National Platform case studies. |
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Linking Disaster Risk Reduction
and Poverty Reduction - 2008
Good Practices and Lessons Learned
A Publication of the Global Network of
NGOs for Disaster Risk Reduction
Building on last year’s effort, this publication seeks to highlight initiatives that have successfully linked poverty reduction and disaster risk reduction in various parts of the world. It features several projects and initiatives that show how DRR can be integrated into poverty reduction (or vice-versa) to help reduce the vulnerability of the poor and protect their livelihoods and development gains. |
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Time for a new path out of disaster
Ban Ki-moon said: 'Almost as dangerous as the cyclones or earthquakes themselves is the myth that the destruction and deaths they cause are somehow unavoidable, the inevitable result of natural calamity'.... See more: PreventionWeb - UN-SG website |
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Green UN/ISDR secretariat
The UN/ISDR aims to minimize its environmental impacts and to integrate sustainable environmental practice into the daily work routines to achieve climate neutrality by the end of 2009. This approach is embedded in a wider UN process for greening the whole UN System. The regional UN/ISDR Asia & the Pacific office in Bangkok reports that it has been climate-neutral since 2007. See more |
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"What we are seeing in every urban earthquake is a result of mostly avoidable errors."
Interview with Fouad Bendimerad
As the rescue efforts continue in China after last Monday’s earthquake, Fouad Bendimerad, Chairman of the Board of the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) and professional engineer in California specializing in earthquake engineering and disaster risk management gives his point of view about building collapse and how to improve building resistance to earthquakes.
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Message from Sálvano Briceño
Director of the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2008.
“A gender perspective should be integrated into all disaster risk management policies, plans and decision-making processes…” - Hyogo Framework for Action
English - French - Spanish |
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Indicators of Progress: Guidance on Measuring the Reduction of Disaster Risks and the Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action helps set priorities for implementing disaster risk reduction while regularly monitoring and reviewing achievements against clear indicators. It can be used by national authorities, civil society and community organizations, regional inter-governmental institutions, technical bodies, and international and donor communities.
Document (includes Annexes 1-5)
CD-Room (includes References, Annexes 6-11) |
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Disaster Figures For 2007
2007 saw a marked increase in the number of floods compared with the average of the last seven years, and Asia was the continent hit hardest by disasters according to figures from the Belgian WHO collaborating Center for Research on epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). “Current trends are consistent with the predictions of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, in that Asia, and also West Africa are already suffering from more severe and frequent floods,” says Professor Debarati Guha-Sapir, director of CRED.
Disaster Figures 2007
Press Release
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