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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.

'Despite these occasional problems, Exercise IOWave11 has achieved its goal of evaluating the state of readiness of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System in responding to a potentially destructive tsunami,' said Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary of UNESCO-IOC...

Almost seven years after the devastating tsunami of 2004, more than 20 nations will participate on 12 October in a full-scale exercise to test the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System...

The Southern Africa Development Community Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, GFDRR and UNISDR are conducting a disaster risk reduction stakeholders training workshop from 27-28 August 2011.

In French:

Ce guide d’information fournit des méthodes visant à réduire la vulnérabilité des populations face aux risques et aux conséquences des catastrophes naturelles dans la zone Sud-Ouest de l’Océan Indien. Plusieurs informations de base sont

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

The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2009-11 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.

Une réunion multipartenariale s'est tenue la semaine dernière au siège de la Communauté de l'océan indien (COI), avec pour objectif de jeter rapidement les bases d'un projet régional pilote de prévention et de gestion des risques naturels...