UNDRR News

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.

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.

Four years after an earthquake which destroyed 14,500 classrooms, efforts continue in Nepal to mainstream school safety

The upcoming Global Assessment Report 2019 will once again emphasise that reducing disaster risk also helps to reduce poverty and to safeguard development gains. It considers the systemic and pluralistic nature of risk: in multiple dimensions, at multiple scales and with multiple impacts.

Scientists working with the UN Country Team in Nepal have found that earthquake risk in the west of the country is being overlooked.

Major efforts are underway in Montenegro to reduce the risks from disasters with the launch of a national disaster loss database to mark the 40 th anniversary of a major earthquake.

Four years on from the April 2015 earthquake, reconstruction efforts are continuing.

It is hoped to have the 1st Arab Science And Technology Confernce for DRR in Beirut later this year.

National Workshop to Kick-off the CubeSat Technology Project “Toward Developing the First Lebanese NanoSatellite” 16.15 - 18.00, 9 April 2019 Beirut Remarks Ms. Mami Mizutori Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction Your

Events such as last year's deadly Sulawesi tsunami in Indonesia underline the importance of communication and outreach to vulnerable populations.