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As the world marks the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October, UNICEF today urged governments and civil society partners to step up efforts to help mitigate the impact of disasters – especially on children – by helping communities to become resilient...

A major, month-long control campaign will be necessary starting in advance of Madagascar's upcoming rainy season, which begins in mid-October, to stop locust numbers from growing and prevent them from reaching plague proportions...

'Discussions are close to finalising the risk modelling work for the South Pacific, including countries such as Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Samoa. Madagascar, the Maldives, and Mauritius are also interested,' said Simon Young, head of the Caribbean Risk Managers Ltd...

IFPRI Discussion Paper 01013:

ASARECA has recently carried out a study to enhance the understanding of climate change in the 10 ASARECA member countries. This report profiles the available climate change-related datasets and their accessibility and

L’objet de cette étude est d’analyser le renforcement de la plate-forme nationale et d’étudier la situation des diverses institutions qui affichent un rapport direct ou indirect avec celle-ci, notamment le Bureau National de Gestion des Risques et

Cette analyse institutionnelle des organes référents de la Réduction des Risques de Catastrophes à Madagascar et au Sénégal a été commandité conjointement par le Bureau National pour la Gestion des Risques et Catastrophes à Madagascar, la Direction de la

This publications focuses on 20 core countries with high vulnerability to natural hazards and low economic resilience to cope with disaster impacts including anticipated climate change and variability: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti

The German non-governmental organization AGEF is working with Madagascan authorities on a new project entitled 'Disaster prevention for the coastal regions in South-Eastern Madagascar' to help build the capacity of four municipalities of the district of Manakara to disasters...