Reports

Summary Background The Disease Early Warning System (DEWS), implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and National Institute of Health, is the main national surveillance system to detect and respond to…

The Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dao Xuan Hoc said the Ministry is working with relevant national and local departments to enact a law on disaster risk prevention and reduction, clearly defining the roles…

DHAKA, 20 July 2011 (IRIN) - In a nation considered the most vulnerable to natural disasters in the world, women must be enabled to take on a bigger role in disaster preparedness and response, experts…

18 July, Incheon: Sixteen Parliamentarians from the Philippine House of Representatives yesterday adopted "the Incheon Resolution of the Philippine Parliamentarians on Effective Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation" which calls for the mainstreaming of disaster…

Climate change will probably cause landslides, said experts at a recent seminar on surveying, assessing and warning landslide dangers in Vietnam's mountainous regions. Dr. Le Quoc Hung, the director of the Institute for Geological and Mineral Sciences,…

Geneva, 16 June – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia met with Margareta Wahlström, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, on Wednesday to discuss ways to help build the resilience…

Geological Hazards Subsector Sector Overview Geological hazards—including volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides—threaten millions of people worldwide, many of whom reside in densely populated urban centers in developing countries. In addition to severe shaking, earthquakes can cause landslides, tsunamis,…

By Damon Perry/CWS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - On a hotel rooftop, overlooking the ocean waves crashing on to the beach along the coastline a group of young men and women, mostly Tamils, is in good spirits considering…

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has raised over 1.2 billion USD from the international community for efforts to cope with climate change. The ministry said the funding is scheduled to focus on a national programme…

Over 10 million people from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda will be severely affected by severe drought, with no likelihood of improvement until 2012, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of humanitarian Affairs warned…