Informes

By Casandra E. Balala LEGAZPI CITY (PIA)—Being ranked as the third most disaster-prone country in the world, the Philippines continues to strengthen its resilience through mainstreaming of disaster risk and vulnerability reduction (DRVR) and climate change…

December 2019, Tboung Khmum - It is now the end of 2019 and the year is ending on a happy note for residents of Tuol Dambang village. Yet only a few months ago, community members were…

Highlights One case of Novel Corona Virus (nCoV) has been confirmed in Nepal. The case traveled to Nepal from Wuhan, China. Currently, the case is on good health and is under surveillance. The health desk at Tribhuvan…

Living in a country where a quarter of the land lives barely above sea-level, the people of Bangladesh are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change and the havoc wrought by natural hazards. Those who…

Overview The Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) Report on Food Security and Agriculture is produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It provides a quarterly forward-looking analysis of major disaster risks to…

OVERVIEW Pilot projects in India and Bangladesh demonstrate that index-based weather insurance products, developed using satellite technology, can reduce the financial risks to smallholder farmers from floods and droughts. Scaling up such schemes has the potential to…

Highlights Malaria: One case of malaria is reported this week from Kanchanpur. SARI: 187 cases of SARI are reported this week. The majority of these cases are from Morang (14 cases), Kanchapur (11 cases), Kathmandu (9 cases), and…

Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR: The World Health Organisation is arranging vaccine for anti-polio campaigns in districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where six vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) cases were reported last week. The VDPV2 was eradicated in 1999 leading to…

A new program to enhance regional disaster resilience among the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was officially endorsed on January 17, 2020 by the ASEAN Sectoral body in charge of disaster…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Climate Change and Land: An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems in…