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DRR leaders and experts meet to discuss local resilience in Serbia

This online event brought together over 40 representatives from local self-governments (LSGs) and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to discuss the resilience agenda in the Republic of Serbia.
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UNDRR ROAMC: How disaster preparedness makes the difference when disaster hits

When COVID began to infiltrate the Caribbean, WFP helped Dominica implement systems to more efficiently collect and analyze the data needed to determine who was eligible for payments to help ride out the pandemic.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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UNDRR ROAMC: Making Caribbean children count in drive for safer schools

The disruptive school closures sparked by the crisis have underscored the need for a stronger focus on educational continuity and school safety as the region faces ever-more complex risks.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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SRSG Mizutori's remarks at High-level Ministerial Event for the Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan

Remarks by SRSG Mami Mizutori on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, following the take-over by the Taliban, focusing on the disaster risk reduction approach.
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Managing Drought Risk in a Changing Climate
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UNDRR Launches the Arab States Drought Risk Dialogue: Managing Drought Risk in a Changing Climate

1 September 2021 – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Arab States launched the “Arab States Drought Risk Dialogue” in a webinar titled “Managing Drought Risk in a Changing Climate” which unpacked the latest findings
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Results of the Scoping Paper on Multi-Hazard and Multi-Dimensional Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Sudan
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UNDRR ROAS Launches the Results of the Scoping Paper on Multi-Hazard and Multi-Dimensional Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Sudan

ROAS organized a workshop with ministers and disaster risk managers, and practitioners in Sudan to present the content and recommendation of the Scoping Paper on Multi-Hazard and Multi-Dimensional Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Sudan.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States
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Building resilient economies: the leading disaster risk experts of the Americas and Caribbean will gather on the UN’s regional platform

Are we prepared for new pandemics? And for evermore extreme events increased by climate change in one of the world’s areas that has suffered the greatest economic losses due to earthquakes and hurricanes?
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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"The flood mural is a collaborative effort between Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Authority (NDRRMA), the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM), Rajapur Municipality, and the Youth Innovation Lab. The activity was carried out first in the classroom where children were allowed to express their experience living with flood through drawings and artistic expression. In the mural, ominous clouds hinted at relentless rain, conveying a message about future flood risks amidst climate
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Early warning systems saving lives during Nepal’s monsoon

The growing use of mass media and early warning systems through data collected from meteorological and hydrological stations and the rainfall-runoff model is proving effective in saving lives in Nepal.
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Asia-Pacific seeks to build back better by addressing climate-disaster-health risks

The year 2020 saw Asia-Pacific deal with the dual occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic along with climate-related disasters, which triggered cascading impacts across sectors. As the region was already not projected to achieve any of the Sustainable
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Managing Drought Risk in a Changing Climate
Update

UNDRR Launches the Arab States Drought Risk Dialogue: Managing Drought Risk in a Changing Climate

1 September 2021 – The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for the Arab States launched the “Arab States Drought Risk Dialogue” in a webinar titled “Managing Drought Risk in a Changing Climate” which unpacked the latest
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Arab States

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