Rapports

The Government of Japan, under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects Scheme (GGP), is providing funds amounting to some 3,576,700 baht for the Project for Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction(CBDRR) for all 9 Refugee…

IOM has launched a series of trainings on collective centre coordination and management in collaboration with the Thai Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM), following the country's worst recorded floods in 2011. The programme, which begins…

Highlights Epidemiological week no. 10 (4 to 10 March 2012) • In week 10, 2012, total 84 districts including 2 agencies provided surveillance data to the DEWS on weekly basis from around 1,878 health facilities. Data from mobile…

International spending on disaster risk reduction (DRR) requires dramatic review. 20th March 2012 – The Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) programme launches a new report today, Disaster risk reduction: Spending where it should count. The report provides a…

TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, Mar. 14 (PIA)-- Disaster preparedness at the barangay level is seen to be intensifed as the Philippine National Red Cross (PNTC) and the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Managment Council (PDRRMC) this…

BANGKOK, THAILAND – Climate change will cause an upward surge in migration this century, and governments in disaster-prone Asia-Pacific nations must promptly enact a broad range of measures to stave off future humanitarian crises, according to…

DHAKA, MARCH 7 -- U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena, along with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations Dr. James A. Schear, today observed the simulation of an important disaster…

GENEVA, 9 March 2012 - The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, today paid tribute to the resilience of the Japanese people as they prepare to mark the first anniversary of the…

Fukushima, Japan, March 9, 2012 – Greenpeace today again criticised the Japanese Government’s incompetent handling of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, saying that its independent measurements show that one year on contamination remains…

DAVAO CITY, Mar. 9 (PIA) -- Women from various sectors here is seeking for their active involvement and participation in the planning and implementation of the local disaster risk reduction measures in the city. The women leaders…