The need for comprehensive disaster risk management has never been more evident. In recent years, major storms, earthquakes, wildfires, tornados, derechos, and other destructive large-scale events ...

The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...

Through a Training of Trainers (ToT) initiative, the programme led to the development of local strategies for disaster risk reduction and equipped national and local representatives with essential ...

A new report by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) presents a tool for conducting an initial broad-based assessment of the resilience of a country’s health system to ...

In this undated photo provided Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a construction site in Taechong-ri, North Korea, in a recovery effort ...

Dale Dominey-Howes receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Global Resilience Partnership and State and Federal disaster management sources. A growing body of post-disaster research ...

We’re launching the first Disaster Risk and Age Index at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, 14-18 March. The Index ranks 190 countries across the world on the disaster ...

"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 ...

Chennai: To create awareness about disasters among students, the University Grants Commission (UGC) directed all higher education institutions to introduce a two-credit disaster risk reduction (DRR) ...

“We appreciate this partnership as it provides us with an avenue for the exchange of ideas and appreciation from both sides DOST and SM, as to what is being done in matters of disaster risk reduction, ...