Year Countdown Symposium for the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai,' held in ...

Understand in 3 lines The Disaster Management Agency Establishment Preparation Office is requesting 1.28 billion yen to host ...

'When it comes to reducing the loss of livelihoods, we are not making enough progress, and I think that needs to be pursued with great sense of urgency,' says Kamal Kishore, head of the United Nations ...

Together with the World Health Organization Sasakawa Health Prize and the UN Environment Programme Sasakawa Environment Prize, the United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction is one of ...

"Stop Disasters," an online video game developed by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), teaches young people how to reduce risks linked to flooding, hurricanes and other ...

Mishra called for advance planning of recovery mechanisms to ensure that reconstruction efforts reduce existing vulnerabilities instead of reproducing them.

Disasters are tragedies. Yet they can serve as laboratories for understanding the physical and social factors governing them. Valuable information gathered during the hours, days, months, and years ...

The official stressed the significance of developing self-protection and community-based programs, IRNA reported. Concerning the significance of empowering the next generation for a resilient future, ...

MANILA, Philippines – More work needs to be done to localize disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific region, top officials said during the closing of the four-day ...