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Africa
WHO and UNDP launch new project for health adaptation to climate change
12 Mar 2010, WHO
WHO, along with UNDP, launch in 2010 the first global project on public health adaptation to climate change. This series of pilot projects aim to increase adaptive capacity of national health system institutions, including field practitioners, to respond to climate-sensitive health risks...
- International African water and sanitation congress and exhibition15-18 Mar 2010, Uganda (Kampala)
- Facilitating community-managed disaster risk reduction15-26 Mar 2010, Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
- Regional meeting: adaptation to climate change in the Maghreb, review and outlook16-17 Mar 2010, Morocco (Casablanca)
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From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- Child rights and climate change adaptation: voices from Kenya and Cambodia2010, IDS; Plan Intl
- Reduction of earthquake losses in the extended Mediterranean region (RELEMR): seismicity and earthquake engineering in the extended Mediterranean region2010, UNESCO
- International conference of island and coastal biosphere reserves: climate change and island and coastal ecosystems2009, Jeju, Korea, Rep of - gov; UNESCO Jakarta; UNESCO
General Facts
- Population: 922 million (2005)
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Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
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- Mean annual economic losses due to natural disasters 1980–2008Mar 2009, Maplecroft
- Distribution of mortality risk associated with floodsMay 2009, UNISDR
- Distribution of mortality risk associated with earthquakesMay 2009, UNISDR
- Tanzanian villagers encouraged to learn hazards of living near erupting volcano2009, USGS, United States of America - gov
- Simulácro na escola2007
- Film: National Platforms for Disaster Reduction: the experience of Madagascar2007, UNISDR
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