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Several Middle East countries which over the years had failed to prioritize disaster preparedness have established national databases and should now be able to estimate their level of risk and improve response, according to the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) secretariat...

Bringing technological advancements to the attention of the 14 PPRD South partner countries is the main objective of a workshop and simulation exercise, organized by the EU-funded Programme on Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Natural and Man-made Disasters and to be held next week in the South of France...

Cairo, 22 May - The United Nations report titled "Revealing risk, redefining Development", launched this May by Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the Third Session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva, reveals a new interest and concern for disaster risk reduction in the Middle East and North Africa.

'Arab states not only share a common language, culture and historic heritage but also a number of regional and trans-boundary risks', says Raed Omari referring to the recent 'Arab Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ASDRR) 2020', released at the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction last week...

28 experts in Disaster Risk Information Management from the Civil Protection Authorities of 14 Mediterranean and Balkan countries will meet from 10 to 13 May in Rome to learn how to use and further develop the PPRD South Risk Atlas. More on geographic information systems at the Global Platform...

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 kit has been developed with the view to enhancing the coping capabilities of disaster prone communities in the Arab States region as well as the dissemination of the technical knowledge in natural disaster reduction to build the capacities of

Officials from Mediterranean Civil Protection Authorities will meet in Rome next week, together with the European Commission and the United Nations, to assess the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the Mediterranean and to review the contribution provided by the PPRD South Programme...