Risk Knowledge and Innovation

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This section displays content created the partners participating in the Africa Network of Centres of Excellence for Disaster Risk Reduction. It serves as a knowledge hub of NoE members contributions and customized tools, services, products, and training to address disaster risks in Africa. We invite members to contribute their pieces of work to our platform.

Press release

14 November 2011

UNISDR and partners plan for major advance in global disaster risk modelling

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, today announced that the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR, is to work with its partners over the next four years on developing a global disaster risk model which will provide the best information available on likely economic losses as climate change kicks in.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Update

11 November 2011

Carbon intensity of world economy on the rise

The latest edition of the Low Carbon Economy Index finds that the world economy is going backwards rather than forwards in efforts to limit global warming to 2º Celsius as agreed during the Cancun round of climate change talks last year.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Update

31 October 2011

Southern Africa launches Disaster Risk Reduction Platform

When unexpectedly heavy floods displaced more than a million people in southern Africa in 2007, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) began to meet annually to prepare for future occurrences, culminating in the creation of the SADC Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this month.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa

Update

25 October 2011

Current efforts to mitigate climate change fall short of reaching vital goal, UN warns

International efforts to mitigate climate change are insufficient to meet the goal of keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a United Nations report warned, just a month before a major conference on the issue is held in Durban, South Africa.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Update

19 October 2011

Cape Town: What it takes to be a role model city

On 12 October, following the launch of its Disaster Risk Management Centre (DRMC), Cape Town joined 14 other cities around the world who have been awarded ‘Role Model City’ status by UNISDR, the UN office for disaster risk reduction.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa

Update

14 October 2011

Risk Reduction the World Over

Some 80 plus countries commemorated the UN International Disaster Reduction Day (IDDR 11) yesterday. “This welcome groundswell of support concretely demonstrates the growing importance and awareness of risk reduction around the world,” said UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlström today.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Update

14 October 2011

Children's Charter for DRR: South Africa budgets for safe schools

South Africa’s Western Cape Provincial Government announced this week that it was increasing the budget allocation for safe schools from Rand 19 million to Rand 21 million and is taking steps to incorporate disaster risk reduction into the school curriculum.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Africa

Update

13 October 2011

Children’s Charter for DRR: Risk Reduction on Film

In Vietnam, adults cried as they watched the short film children in their community made about the flash flood that devastated their homes.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)