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Money from the National Disaster Fund will be 'allocated to mitigation measures such as the relocation of people to higher grounds and installing pipelines,' said the Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Joel Kaapanda...

A new satellite data centre in Namibia will help farmers prepare for droughts, floods, bushfires and pests, reports SciDevNet. 'We can predict where problems are popping up' said said Marina Coetzee, a researcher at EOSA-RTC and a senior lecturer at the polytechnic...

The National Disaster Risk Management Plan (NDRMP) aims to provide guidance and strengthen national capacity for disaster risk management and to provide a framework for sectoral and regional disaster risk management in Namibia.

'We are all concerned about the impact on society from the change in climate. We know such change in general is expected to make dry regions drier, warm regions even warmer and flood-prone regions even more problematic' said Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Minister of Environment and Tourism...

This publication contains abstracts (mainly in English, some in French) from papers presented at the fourth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change which was held on 21-27 February 2010 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The

This document addresses preparedness as an important investment against natural and man-made disasters. Through good practices, it urges the humanitarian community, governments and regional bodies to use preparedness thinking to be aware of risks, to

This inventory is an attempt to pull together the threads and to identify what does and what does not work in relation to legal, institutional and planning frameworks for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. It aims to further support the

This document provides some in-country examples (Uganda, Vietnam, Botswana, Namibia, Angola and Denmark) of DHI's ongoing work developing climate change adaptation strategies that are also linked and integrated with strategies for disaster risk management