The year 2014 was an exciting and engaging one for the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme as our working groups continued to deliver on our research objectives. We recorded several milestones that underscored the significance of the IRDR message in the global disaster risk reduction arena: the second IRDR conference with more than …
At the request of UNISDR, the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) had invited civil society to propose speakers and participants in the official segment of the upcoming WCDRR. The process produced a long-list of several hundred proposals from across all sectors of civil society. UN-NGLS convened a very broad and inclusive committee of 16 …
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A draft programme for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to be held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan is now available. See: http://www.wcdrr.org/uploads/UN-WCDRR-Draft-Programme-6012015.pdf This draft programme gives a first glance of what will happen during the World Conference. It will be updated as the conference date …
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David Matyas Sahel Regional Resilience Adviser, Save the Children, Senegal, and Mark Pelling Professor, Department of Geography, King’s College London, United Kingdom Abstract Resilience is a ubiquitous term in disaster risk management and is an increasingly prominent concept in early discussions focused on elaborating the post-2015 international policy landscape. Riddled with competing meanings and diverse …
The European Environment Agency (EEA) recently published its 2014 report on “National adaptation policy processes in European countries”. According to the summary, this report draws on the results of a self-assessment survey conducted on national adaptation policy processes in Europe. In May 2013, the survey was sent out by the European Environment Agency (EEA) to …
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The IRDR IcoE Taipei (Academy of Sciences located in Taipei, China) has been offering for some time visiting scholar fellowships to connect different scientific communities in DRR research. The “Visiting Scholar Fellowships” in disaster-related research, open for scholars from both the natural and social sciences, are tenable for a minimum period of one month to …
“Unlike other global frameworks (such as the Millenium Development Goals), awareness on the disaster risk reduction framework (HFA) has been limited, especially at the sub national and local level. In the run-up to HFA 2, this needs to be put in the right light. This campaign (Visions and voices for a new global disaster framework) …
University Gaston Berger at Saint-Louis, Senegal, which has already been selected as home to one of the World Bank’s African Centres of Excellence, has announced the launch of a new French-language Masters Programme in Risk Prevention and Food Security (Master Prévention et Gestion des Risques liés à la Sécurité Alimentaire, PGRSA), which will be carried …
Background Established in 2006, Periperi U is a platform for university partnership to reduce disaster risks in Africa. It stands for ‘Partners Enhancing Resilience of People Exposed to Risks’ – with a special focus on advancing university action on risk and vulnerability reduction in Africa. The partnership’s accomplishments this year underline its growing profile internationally. …
The chair of the AIRDR Working Group Susan Cutter, Director of the IRDR International Centre of Excellence on Vulnerability and Resilience Metrics, announced the imminent release of three new AIRDR reports, commissioned by UNISDR as input to GAR15 expert meetings in 2014. The reports are seen to refer in particular to the section of the …