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Call for contribution to a Regional Thematic Report on Disaster Risk Reduction Education in Asia Pacific - Deadline for contribution: 15 September 2008
The UN/ISDR Asia Pacific invites experts from the Education system and on Disaster Risk Reduction from the Asia Pacific region to contribute to a regional thematic report on DRR Education that follows the objectives of the Bangkok Action Agenda. The Report will be made available to the International Conference on Education (ICE, 25-28 Novemnber 2008, Geneva) and the second meeting of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (June 2009, Geneva).
To contribute, please fill the attached Implementation Plan and send to rosec@un.org with copy to isdr-bkk@un.org by 15 September. |
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Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Climate Change Impacts and Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in East Asian Cities
The World Bank (WB), the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and UN/ISDR, has just completed a Primer for city managers in the East Asia region on the risks they face from climate change and other natural hazards and strategies to deal with these risks. The global launch of the Climate Resilient Cities Primer took place at a Green Cities Workshop held on July 14 in Thailand's largest coastal city of Pattaya, in collaboration with the United Cities and Local Governments Asia Pacific Congress 2008 (UCLG ASPAC) which followed the Workshop. http://www.worldbank.org/eap/climatecities |
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Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction:
Good Practices and lessons Learned from Experiences in the Asia-Pacific Region 2008
Even before we came up with high technology based early warning systems, or standard operating procedures for response, numerous local communities worldwide have prepared, operated, acted, and responded to natural disasters using indigenous methods passed on from one generation to the next. The publication "Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from experiences in the Asia-pacific Region", produced with the assistance of the European Union, aims to build awareness for indigenous knowledge as an effective tool for reducing risk from natural disasters. By improving the understanding of indigenous knowledge and providing concrete examples of how it can be successfully used, this publication can help all practitioners and policy makers to consider the knowledge hold by local communities and act to integrate this wealth of knowledge into future disaster-related work. |
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Joint launch by the UN/ISDR Asia Pacific and ASEAN Secretariat of an ASEAN Regional Drawing Competition on “Safer Community – Hospital, School and House of My Dream” on the occasion of the 2008 ASEAN Day for Disaster Management & International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, 8 October 2008.
Deadline for contribution: 15 August 2008
See modalities of submission and details about the competition |
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PRESS RELEASE
UN/ISDR 2008/07,
16 May 2008
Poorly constructed buildings kill people during earthquakes
Read more
"What we are seeing in every urban earthquake
is a result of mostly avoidable errors."
Interview with Fouad Bendimerad Chairman of the Board of the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI)
Read the interview |
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Regional Orintation Workshop on the HFA Progress Review, 25th April 2008 Bangkok
The UN/ISDR secretariat in Asia and Pacific and the UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok, will jointly organize the above orientation workshop on the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) Progress Review Process in Asia. The workshop will introduce to National HFA Focal Points and UNDP programme officers from selected countries in Asia the process of monitoring, evaluating, and reporting progress in achieving the five priorities of action of the HFA. The workshop will discuss why monitoring progress in disaster risk reduction at the country level is important and how the information will inform the 2009 Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. It will also provide opportunities to get familiar with the review methodologies and how to involve national stakeholders in the process. The workshop is supported by the funding of European Union. |
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Brainstorming exercise of Regional Task Force on Urban Risk
To access the details of the meeting please visit ADRC |
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Meeting of the Expanded ISDR Asia Partnership, 13-15 February 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand
The Expanded ISDR Asia Partnership is an open-ended informal partnership that aims at ensuring enhanced regional coordination and synergies in disaster risk reduction in Asia and Pacific. The group will meet in Bangkok from 13-15 February to discuss key priority activities linked to the monitoring of progress in achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 - 2015 (in preparation of the Second Session of the Global Platform on Disaster Reduction in 2009, Geneva), a mapping exercise of disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific, and the preparations for the Third Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Rik Reduction (2-4 December 2008, Malaysia). For more details |
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UN/ISDR secretariat and WHO Launch the World Disaster Reduction Campaign 2008-2009 on 25 January 2008 in Davos
The World Disaster Reduction Campaign 2008-2009: 'Hospitals Safe from Disasters' is a global campaign being launched in Davos, Switzerland on 25 January, by the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) and the World Health Organization (WHO), with support from the World Bank. |
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The campaign will focus on structural safety of hospitals and health facilities, on keeping health facilities functioning during and after disasters, and on making sure health workers are prepared for natural hazards striking.
Press Release: English - French
Regional Complementary Note
More information click here |
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Regional Launch of the 2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign for Asia & Pacific, 25 January 2008, Bangkok, Thailand |
A regional launch of the 2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign for Asia & Pacific was organized by the UN/ISDR Asia and Pacific, WHO South East Asia Regional Office (WHO-SEARO) and WHO for the Western Pacific Regional Office (WHP-WPRO) in Bangkok, Thailand, to echo the global launch of the campaign in Davos.
The regional launch consisted of a brainstorming meeting among key regional partners involved in the issue of health and disaster risk reduction who came up with the initial steps of a regional partnership and long-term strategy for safe hospitals for the Asia and Pacific region.
For detailed information on the regional launch, please see the Regional Complementary Note & Press Release
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