The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the world's largest humanitarian network, wishes to recruit a Disaster Management Delegate to ensure overall guidance and support to the implementation of the regional, medium-term Disaster Management (DM) strategic plan/framework, and co-ordination of the Federation's support to DM within the region.
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The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) announced today, the ten partner cities for its City Resilience Profiling Programme (CRPP). Working through partnerships with stakeholders including international agencies such as UNISDR, academic and research institutes, private sector actors, and NGOs, the CRPP will develop a comprehensive and integrated urban planning and management approach for profiling and monitoring the resilience of any city, to all plausible hazards.
The mission of the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA), is to offer the platform through which young Catholics across Africa can offer a response to the twin challenges of environmental degradation and climate change, from the perspective of Catholic social teaching on care for creation, paying attention to the most vulnerable.
The network aims to achieve this through:
Margarita Sargsyan, 14, and her classmates at School #1 in Gyumri, the second biggest city of Armenia, are taking part in school lessons that might save their lives. They are learning about disaster risk reduction (DRR).
Margarita portrays a powerful message about disability in a video about disaster risk reduction. Watch the video here.
Canada needs to harness the collective power of government and the private sector now – before the next big storm, fire, quake or flood, Sharon Ludlow, president and CEO of Swiss Re Canada, said during the global reinsurer’s 28th annual Canadian Industry Outlook Breakfast in downtown Toronto.
Canada needs to harness the collective power of government and the private sector now – before the next big storm, fire, quake or flood, Sharon Ludlow, president and CEO of Swiss Re Canada, said during the global reinsurer’s 28th annual Canadian Industry Outlook Breakfast in downtown Toronto.