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The main objectives of successful disaster risk reduction activities are the integration of risk reduction into national recovery programs, the development of policies and the progress of capacities designed to enhance and innovate prevention.
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The United Nations Development Programme has released a new report on early warning that aims to support innovation and the development of systems by highlighting methods that have been successfully tested in southeast Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia. The report also addresses a number of challenges and obstacles to successful systems.
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Presently, the whole mankind is getting more and more concerned about global environmental challenges and these issues are now being considered by the developed and developing countries of the world both at political and economic levels.
 
In order to

The Armenian capital Yerevan will host a sub-Regional Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, June 26-29
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The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today announced that Armenia will host countries from Central Asia and the South Caucasus in June to discuss scaling up efforts to reduce disaster losses.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
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A new E-STAG convened this week in Sofia, Bulgaria, to focus on improving disaster risk knowledge in 55 countries across Europe and Central Asia.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
European Scientific and Technical Advisory Group
Forest fires are a major concern for European scientists working on disaster risk.
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A new European Science and Technology Advisory Group (E-STAG) convened this week in Sofia, Bulgaria, to focus on improving disaster risk knowledge in 55 countries across Europe and Central Asia.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
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This report presents an assessment of the capacity for flood monitoring and early flood warning in 17 of the 22 countries which belong to the Eastern and Southern neighbourhood policy of the European Union and the enlargement candidate countries. Many of

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The proposed draft plan of action is prepared on the basis of the updates and recommendations from the governments and partners shared at the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in Dushanbe on 12 July 2016, as well as other relevant


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