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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...

Mobilizing, collecting and sharing information in crisis or risk situations, final report:

This document reports on a project aimed at studying the dissemination, collection and use of health information in risk and crisis situations. The research was

'The tragedy is that this is an annual event and it appears that each year the severity and impact is potentially greater. Investments in disaster risk reduction programmes can save lives and help communities recover more quickly' urged the UN Resident Coordinator...

18 countries around the Indian Ocean Rim will participate in an ocean-wide tsunami exercise on 14 October to coincide with World Disaster Reduction Day. The exercise will for the first time test and evaluate the effectiveness of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWS)...

'People here are very resilient; they have adapted to live with droughts over many years..but now [drought] is too often, and it is getting worse' said Tovo Hery Zo Roabijaona...