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- Phone calls to a health helpline are being used to forecast dengue fever outbreaks up to three weeks in advance in Lahore, capital of Pakistan's Punjab province. Previous methods predicted infectious diseases but rarely utilized front-end ways to access the predictions. Since the helpline was first set up dengue cases have dropped from 21,000 in 2011...
- The World Bank Latin-American and Caribbean Region (LCR) Probabilistic Risk Assessment Program (CAPRA) is turning over its website eCAPRA to a new host interested in hosting the site and maintaining the CAPRA community. The objective is to keep the website and all the current content open and freely available to any person interested in accessing the...
- The UK is poorly prepared for the inevitable impacts of global warming in coming decades, including deadly annual heatwaves, water shortages and difficulties in producing food. Action must be taken now, according to the Committee on Climate Change report published Tuesday, with more widespread flooding and new diseases among the risks in most urgent...
- UNDP in partnership with the National Disaster Management Organisation is hosting a high-level multi-stakeholder meeting July 14-15 on promoting resilient activities and increasing local level understanding of disaster risk in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area. The event will also advocate for the need to ensure linkages with social and environmental...
- The Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan said his country was committed to a path of sustainable and resilient social and economic development, with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at the heart of this driving ambition. Since 1997, Tajikistan has recorded 3,326 disasters, killing more than 1,100 people and causing widespread destruction...
- By Andy McElroy
DUSHANBE, 12 July 2016 – The Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan said today his country was committed to a path of sustainable and resilient social and economic development, with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at the heart of this driving ambition.
Mr. Zokirzoda Mahmadtoir Zoir said coordinated and consistent action was necessary to…
- The purpose of this thematic review is twofold: firstly, to obtain an understanding of progress and evolution of disaster risk governance over the period 2005-2014; secondly, to inform the policy dialogue on future disaster risk management challenges and the mechanisms for addressing them. In particular, the review intends to inform and influence the...
- The publication consolidates a synthetic analysis on La Niña and its potential impacts on agriculture and food security, specifically in the regions that are now dealing with the consequences of El Niño. It provides early action recommendations in the agriculture sector to either reap the beneficial outcomes of La Niña,...
- This article describes the evolution of the role of science and technology in the policy process building up to the Sendai Framework adoption that resulted in an unprecedented emphasis on science in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFRDRR). The first international conference for the post-2015 United Nations landmark agreements...
- The resilience analysis of the Triangle of Hope (Mauritania) serves as a baseline for providing guidance in planning policy interventions. The present brief summarizes policy indications presented in the report. These indications aim to help the Government of Mauritania and policymakers with their future decisions, and contributes...