Informes

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2013, the Opium Risk Assessment was carried out in two phases similar to the year before. The first phase was implemented between December 2012 and January 2013 and covered the Central, Eastern, Southern and…

JAKARTA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a US$1.25 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) to support WFP’s Disaster Risk Reduction Programme…

DISASTER RISK REDUCTION What and why? VOICE is a European network of 82 humanitarian NGOs. Improving policy and practice of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in developing countries has been a priority issue for the network over many years. The upcoming…

Reinforcing Synergies between Development and Climate Change A team of climate experts investigates the climate catastrophe that is brewing in countries like Nepal and Bangladesh. They discover victims of climate change who never made the headlines and…

KATHMANDU, Nepal – A one-day consultation on Nepal Disaster Risk Reduction Portal was organized on 9 April 2013 in Kathmandu by Ministry of Home Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme. ADPC is technical partner for…

Climate change is a major non-traditional security (NTS) challenge for Bangladesh. Sea level rise, and the possible loss of land mass, represents an existential threat to the country. More immediately, thousands of people are directly and…

Highlights Epidemiological week no. 14 (31 Mar to 6 Apr, 2013) • Measles: This week a total of 33 alerts investigated, responding and monitoring to 1 outbreak. 99 mea‐ sles cases from 16 districts, while 7 deaths reported…

Japan shares lessons on ways information and communication technologies can help strengthen countries’ disaster risk management plans and empower communities facing disasters. Otsuchi Town in Japan’s Iwate Prefecture was struck hard by the Great East Japan Earthquake…

The Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department of the European Commission (ECHO) is providing 3.28 million Euros (approx NPR 360 million) for disaster risk reduction in different parts of Nepal, under its seventh Disaster Preparedness Action…

ISLAMABAD — The European Union is deploying monitors to observe the electoral process in Pakistan, for the country's May elections. But none of those monitors will travel to the country's high-risk regions. Michael Gahler, chief of…