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 ...

The United Nations has endorsed a new global statistical framework for disaster-related statistics to help countries better understand and reduce growing disaster risks. The Global Disaster-Related ...

The term “Tech for Good” has popped up in national and international conversations. It often exists to counter to complaints and attention drawn to the technology community’s role in a variety of ...

The local government of Mambajao, through its Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)–Mambajao, launched the municipality’s first Fire ...

Thank you for the opportunity to address this plenary discussion on the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. I appreciate today’s theme, which looks beyond natural ...

Harnessing the collective capabilities of APRU universities for interdisciplinary research in disaster management, students attended talks by the professors from different universities and ...

Twelve participants from six Pacific countries gathered in Apia, for a four-day regional workshop, the final phase of the UNITAR Hiroshima Women's ...

THE Ministry of the Interior and Local Government in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MILG-Barmm) ...

Throughout history, Japan and Turkey have both suffered massive earthquakes. Groups from the two nations recently met to ...

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 ...

DISASTER risk reduction officers across Cebu are pushing for a "Magna Carta" to protect frontline workers. During a quarterly meeting in Cebu City last week, of ...

A three-day program on disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction (DiRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) was held in Shyamnagar Upazila, bringing together government officials, civil society ...