May 15, 2013
The Climate Change Commission (CCC) has identified the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) as partner in the management of...
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Disaster Risk Reduction is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing, developing and applying of policies, strategies and practices to minimise vulnerabilities and disaster risks throughout society.
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May 17, 2013
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January 21, 2013
Sustainable development is high on the international agenda. Integrating issues such as biodiversity, disaster risk reduction and climate change into education is a central element of promoting sustainable development. Education for Sustainable Development aims to reorient the entire education system and ensure that children learn what is relevant today.
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Report / Paper
| May 07, 2013
Climate warming has caused the degradation of the permafrost in Mongolia, which has considered accelerating reduction of water resources and put a negative effect on terrestrial ecosystems and pastoral productivity. Policies and p...
Factsheet / Brochure
| April 16, 2013
The Climate Change Adaptation project is being implemented in 65 villages of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh covering an area of 40,734 ha (407 sq.kms), directly benefitting 63,282 people from over 11,979 households...
Policy Brief / Strategy Brief
| March 22, 2013
Loss and Damageis used in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to refer to a range of damage and permanent loss associated with certain climate change impacts. These can include impacts from extreme w...
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Report / Paper
| March 15, 2013
This study assesses ADB’s response to disasters from two broad categories of disaster-related operations—disaster prevention and disaster recovery. The study reports that if only the projects focused predominantly on disaster prev...
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Disaster Risk Reduction
Forum / Conference
Monday, July 08, 2013 to Friday, July 12, 2013
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and Secretariat of the...
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Disaster Risk Reduction
Nadi, Fiji
February 22, 2013
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) held a cooperation workshop on disaster risk management in the Asia and Pacific in Tokyo f...
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Disaster Risk Reduction
All Countries, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, Pacific, South Asia, Central Asia
Announcement
| March 15, 2013
CDKN is seeking a supplier to document evidence and experience of applying index-based micro-insurance in South and South East Asia. The project will look to add value by focusing on a particular geographic region (South and South...
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Disaster Risk Reduction
Announcement
| March 15, 2013
The Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) is offering an on-line course on disaster risk management. Participants will learn about contemporary concepts and practices in disaster risk management and tools and methods that ca...
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Disaster Risk Reduction
Guideline / Manual / Toolkit
| March 15, 2013
The Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB) has developed a guide to facilitate development organisations in exploring a solution to the reduction of disaster and climate risks through their everyday work. It covers the essentia...
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Disaster Risk Reduction
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