The United Nations Major Group for Children & Youth (UN MGCY) is the formal, General Assembly mandated space for the meaningful participation of children and youth in intergovernmental and allied sustainable development processes at the UN. It is meant to facilitate the participation of youth in policy design, implementation, follow-up, and review. The Disaster Risk …
IRDR Young Scientists Contributed to UN MGCY SPI PublicationRead More »
This white paper aims to propose the next generation disaster data infrastructure, which includes the novel and most essential information systems and services that a country or a region can depend on in reality in order to successfully gather, process and display disaster data, and to reduce the impact of natural disasters. The white paper …
The International Expert Forum on “Mainstreaming Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction in Education” Integrating SDG, SFDRR and UNFCCC Paris Agreement, scheduled to be held on 1 – 2 December, 2017 at AIT, THAILAND. It is organised by Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management (DPMM), Asian Institute of Technology, THAILAND in associate with IRDR and other institutions …
Click here! Due to its disaster-prone location, it is imperative that ASEAN is equipped with the necessary tools to inform its disaster risk management policies. Projects that inform ASEAN disaster risk management policy-making processes can decrease the effects of extreme climate events. The ASDMP project seeks to promote “scientific and technical research programmes that study …
[ONLINE SURVEY] ASDMP: ASEAN Science-Based Disaster Management ProjectRead More »
The 17th Meeting of the IRDR Scientific Committee was held in Cancun, Mexico on May 22-23. It was hosted by ICSU and co-organized by IRDR IPO. The agenda of Day 1 was restricted to the SC members, the ex-officio and the IPO. The update of IRDR was presented. The IRDR strategy plan of action, governing …
4th World Landslide Forum was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 29 – June 2, 2017. The theme is “LANDSLIDE RESEARCH AND RISK REDUCTION FOR ADVANCING CULTURE OF LIVING WITH NATURAL HAZARDS”. In the forum, Prof. Shuaib Lwasa, the Chair of IRDR Scientific Committee, on behalf of IRDR, signed on the ISDR-ICL SENDAI PARTNERSHIPS 2015-2025 FOR GLOBAL PROMOTION …
IRDR joins the Sendai Partnership for Implementation of SFDRR on LandslidesRead More »
2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction was held in Cancun, Mexico. IRDR organized its Science Committee (SC) meeting before the platform in the beautiful city Cancun. Beside Global Platform, our SC member Dr Bapon Fakhruddin visited Cozumel and was rewarded with a Mayoral award of appreciation for his efforts. The stunning Caribbean island of …
Bapon Dives into Climate Resilience in Cozumel, MexicoRead More »
The IGNITE stage is a special venue at the entrance of the 2017 Global Platform conference centre where selected participants are allowed 15 minutes to present a disaster risk reduction topic, project or initiative. Its aim is to widen the array of topics that are discussed at the Global Platform beyond those presented in the …
ICoE-CCOUC delivered two presentations in IGNITE stage of Global PlatformRead More »
At its recent 17th meeting, convened in Cancun, Mexcio, the IRDR Scientific Committee (SC) reviewed the proposal submitted by Stockholm Environment Institute(SEI) to establish an IRDR International Centre of Excellence (ICoE) on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk (ICoE-TDDR). And it has been unanimously approved. Recognizing the importance of transformation of the relationship between development and disaster risk …
The World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations System’s authoritative voice on Weather, Climate and Water, has announced that Professor Gordon McBean of Canada as the winner of the 62nd International Meteorological Organization (IMO) Prize and will receive his award in 2018*. The IMO Prize is the most important award in meteorology and is named after …