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Fourth Edition of "Disaster Reduction in Asia & Pacific - ISDR Informs" - Call for contributions by 17 February 2008
Please send information about your respective achievements, innovative approaches, projects and activities in disaster risk reduction in Asia and Pacific by 17 February to rosec@un.org with cc to isdr-bkk@un.org. Please note that special focus will be placed in this edition on reviewing activities held on the occasion of the 2007 International Day for Disaster Reduction (10 October 2007) and will launch the theme of the 2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign on "Hospitals Safe from Disasters". A basic structure of the fourth Newsletter Edition and guidelines for submission are available to guide your contributions.
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New national platform for disaster risk reduction in Asia - Sri Lanka officially establishes the National Disaster Management Coordinating Centre (NDMCC)
The Government of Sri Lanka officially announced to UN/ISDR on 17 January 2008, through the Disaster Management Centre (DMC), the establishment of the National Disaster Management Coordinating Committee (NDMCC) as the national multi stakeholder coordination mechanism for disaster risk reduction. The latter will support an effective implementation of Sri Lanka's Road Map for Disaster Risk Reduction recently launched by the Government. |
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ISDR Asia and Pacific team planted 600 trees in a Royal Government site in Hua Hin, Thailand, to offset carbon emissions linked to the office's activities and trips.
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Second Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 7-8 November, Delhi, India
Around 500 participants, including 35 Ministers dealing with disaster risk management and development issues, high level delegations, scientists, practitioners, civil society members and representatives from the United Nations, international and regional organizations participated in the Ministerial meeting and adopted the Delhi Declaration for Disaster Risk Reduction 2007(please make link with doc below) which, as one major achievement, institutionalizes Asian Ministerial Conferences on Disaster Risk Reduction every two years as major political foras in the Asia and Pacific region,. For more information, please visit http://amcdrrindia.com/ |
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Regional Workshop on School Education and Disaster Risk Reduction, 8-10 October 2007, Bangkok, Thailand
The Regional Workshop was held as the regional closing event of the 2006-2007 World Disaster Reduction Campaign on "Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School". Around 300 participants attended the workshop to discuss a common approach to disaster risk reduction education and school safety initiatives, and came up with concrete recommendations for action at the regional, national and local levels through the "Bangkok Action Agenda"(please make a direct link to “Bangkok Action Agenda-Final.pdf”) to facilitate the integration of disaster risk reduction and school safety into school curriculum. For more details, please click |
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2007 UN Sasakawa Award selects two Laureates dedicated to communicating lessons of past disasters
Professor Yoshiaki Kawata from the Disaster Prevention Research Institute in Japan, and Tony Gibbs, a highly respected Caribbean engineer in building safety, have been selected as the two 2007 Sasakawa Laureates. |
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Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on
School Education
and Disaster Risk Reduction
8-10 October 2007, Bangkok, Thailand
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Deadline
for submission to the third edition of "Disaster
Reduction in Asia and the Pacific - ISDR Informs" postponed
to 30 March 2007.
Kindly consult the structure
of the third Edition to guide
your contributions into each or selected sections of the publication.
Please note that a special focus will be placed in this edition
on the national and regional commemorations of the International
Day for Disaster Reduction (11 October 2006) as well as to
the theme of Education, including the integration of disaster
risk reduction into school curricula and school safety initiatives,
along the lines of the 2006-2007 World Campaign on Disaster
Reduction - All contributions (articles, photos, graphs etc.)
should be sent to rosec@un.org with copy to dechnarong@un.org |
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“Lessons
for a Safer Future” draws on the experiences
of many organisations and individuals during and following
the tsunami. The report offers eleven lessons as a
contribution to the ongoing process of learning how
nations, communities and individuals can become better
prepared for and reduce the risk of potential natural
hazards. |
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CRED
Releases the 2006 Disasters in Numbers
The Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) releases
today, 29 January 2007, the figures of disasters triggered by natural hazards
for the year 2006. A total of 395 disasters were recorded in 2006 with 226
caused by floods, 66 by windstorms and 30 related to extreme temperature
events. The 2006 disasters killed 21,342 people. While Asia was the continent
hitted most by disasters triggered by natural hazards, three European countries
- Netherlands, Belgium and Ukraine - ranked among the top ten countries most
affected by deadly disasters. The economic damages in 2006 were around 19
billion US Dollars. |
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ISDR-BIBLIO
Tsunami is
a bibliographic compilation of
publications available at the ISDR System Library and
related to a specific hazard or aspect of disaster reduction. |
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| Launch
of the 5th DIPECHO Action Plan for Asia: Proposals
for the support of operations in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao
PDR,
Timor Leste, the Philippines and Vietnam on the promotion of
community-based disaster preparedness initiatives and small-scale
mitigation works should be sent by 31 May 2006 to ECHO . DIPECHO
Guidelines are available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/index_en.html.
For more information, please contact DIPECHO South East Asia
(E-mail: ta02@echo-bangkok.org) |
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The Final Draft
of UNPAF Thailand is available
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (TICA) of the Royal Thai Government endorsed
the final draft of the UN Disaster Partnership Framework for Thailand – Final
endorsment of the document will take place at the Joint Strategy Meeting of
1st March in Bangkok
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legislations in disaster management in Asia - The “Roadmap
for Disaster Risk Management – Towards a Safer Sri
Lanka” and “Draft Bill on Disaster Management
in Indonesia” are referring to HFA
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