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This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Morocco, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as drought, wild fire, land slide and earthquake.

Governments in the region have begun to ask the right questions about identifying vulnerable populations and are talking resilience, the WB tells IRIN. Improving people’s adaptive capacity does not always involve money...investment in more social protection measures is also needed...

Preparedness is a key feature of The European Civil Protection Mechanism's work. It involves imagining all kinds of scenarios in advance and holding international field exercises on a regular basis to improve the inter-operability of the resources made available by the Member States...

Une récente étude publiée dans la revue Natural Hazards tente de comprendre et mesurer la vulnérabilité des grandes métropoles face aux conséquences du changement climatique et dresse une liste des villes côtières dans le monde les plus exposées aux risques d’inondations...

Le ministre chargé des Affaires générales et de la gouvernance du Maroc, Najib Boulif, a dévoilé une nouvelle stratégie mettant l’accent sur la résilience aux catastrophes naturelles à l’occasion de la quatrième conférence sur les désastres et les risques...

Drought, floods and sea level rise are some of the natural hazards affecting food prices. Around 9.95 million people are still food insecure after drought hit the Horn in 2011, according to the World Bank. There are about 16 million people facing various levels of food insecurity in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, and Uganda, said FEWS NET...

This map depicts the countries participating in, and location of National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction, of the ECHO-funded UNISDR media trainings on disaster risk reduction in 2010-2011.

The media have an important role to play in creating

This report, the first report in the UN-Habitat series on the state of cities to focus on the Arab world, highlights issues of environmental and natural disasters, risk and vulnerability, within a collective picture of urban conditions and trends in each