Rapports

Research highlights: A round-up of recent IHRR research findings Features In Search of Tipping Points: Researchers are on the hunt for the elusive ‘tipping point’ in physical and social systems. Climate Change and Coffee: How will climate change affect…

Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator ‘Building Resilience: the importance of prioritising disaster risk reduction – a United Nations Development Programme Perspective’ Hopkins Lecture, University of Canterbury Aurora Centre, Burnside High School, Christchurch 6.30 pm, Wednesday 15 August 2012 I am pleased to…

Some of Asia’s most important economies have the highest risk from the threat of natural hazards, due to the exposure of their cities and trading hubs to events such as flooding, earthquakes and tropical cyclones, according…

Malteser International supports flood relief - Medicine and food to be distributed at evacuation centres Cologne/Manila. The risk for severe diseases is continuously increasing in the evacuation centres of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. According to the…

LUANG PRABANG, 13 August 2012 (IRIN) - Lemons and sweet bamboo may not be associated with frontline efforts to adapt to climate change in most parts of the world, but in Kioutaloun village in northern Laos,…

MANILA – With the Philippines currently experiencing disastrous floods, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) recently received a generous grant of $AU1 million (approximately Php43.8 million) from the Australian Government to significantly boost WFP’s contingency…

MANILA, Philippines. (August 10, 2012) — The lack of latrines and clean water in cramped evacuation centers in Manila and neighbouring provinces is putting hundreds of thousands of children at risk of disease, Save the Children…

August 3 2012 - To mark the 2nd anniversary today of the launch of its Pakistan Floods Appeal the DEC has published a report highlighting the need for improved Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Pakistan. The report…

August 10 2012 - Christian Aid is deeply concerned about the growing risk of health epidemics amongst the hundreds of thousands of people in Manila made homeless by the floods. ‘Rain continues in the flood devastated capital…

Special health alert has been in place in seven VDCs and Nepalgunj municipality of Banke district, which have been at high risk of communicable diseases due to flood in the Rapti river five days ago. Among the…