UNDRR News

The latest news from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the lead UN agency for the coordination of disaster risk reduction.

Editor-in-chief, Prof. Rajib Shaw (left) with Panellists at the Science&Policy Forum at the launch the new journal Progress in Disaster Science
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Science goes local for DRR

It was a rich first day of discussion at the Science&Policy Forum in the lead up to the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction which opens on Wednesday.
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Head of UNDRR, Mami Mizutori, and WMO Secretary-General, Petteri Taalas, briefing media organizations today
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World media unite for DRR at Global Platform

World media outlets came together in Geneva to discuss their role in helping to reduce disaster losses and educating the public.
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At the opening of the World Reconstruction Conference (left to right) Mami Mizutori, UNDRR, Sameh Wahba, World Bank, Asaka Okai, UNDP and Carl Hallergard, EU Delegation to Geneva
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Inclusion matters in build up to the Global Platform

Whether the discussion was on reconstruction, early warnings or science and policy, the challenge of inclusion in disaster risk reduction was a central theme in today's preparatory meetings for the 6th edition of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.
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Statements and messages

4th Meeting of the Small Island States Resilience Initiative

Opening remarks SRSG Mami Mizutori 4 th Meeting of the Small Island States Resilience Initiative ‘Bringing Resilience to Scale in SIDS’ 09.00 Sunday 12 May 2019 Room C1 WMO 7bis Avenue de la Paix Delegates & representatives from Small Islands Developing
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Youth are key to a resilient Pacific

The inaugural Pacific Resilience Meeting has closed with a call to pursue two critical pathways towards resilient and sustainable development in an era of increasing impact from climate change.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific
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Nepal's corruption-free reconstruction effort

How Nepal ensured there was no corruption in the massive reconstruction effort that got underway after the 2015 earthquake which damaged a million homes.
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UN and Norwegian Pension Company Forge Partnership to Identify Financial Investments At Risk

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and KLP, Norway's largest pension company, announced today a partnership to geo-tag financial investments against vulnerability to disaster and climate risk.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
The Indian Meteorology Department started tracking cyclone Foni days before it made landfall
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Fani's hard lesson on resilient infrastructure

Early warnings saved lives when Cyclone Fani hit the Indian state of Odisha but there are lessons to be learned on resilient infrastructure as a result of the widespread damage caused by the category 4 storm.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
The training workshop in Tehran brought together participants from central and local government, UN, humanitarian organizations, academia and the media (c) UNDRR
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Joint UN effort bolsters Iran’s ability to reduce its disaster risk

In partnership with Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization and the National Disaster Management Organization (NDMO), the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (ESCAP-APDIM), and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) organized a training meeting to boost the capacity of Iran's national agencies to reduce disaster risk. The three UN entities jointly lead the UN Regional Coordination Mechanism’s working group on disaster risk reduction and resilience.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
A reconstructed school which lost ten classrooms during Nepal's 2015 earthquake
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Nepal's safe school lesson

Four years after an earthquake which destroyed 14,500 classrooms, efforts continue in Nepal to mainstream school safety
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific

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