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The UNISDR secretariat launches this new publication featuring nine National Platform case studies in an effort to inspire and support the birth of new National Platforms, and also to strengthen existing ones. Governments increasingly recognize the need

'When the question is not, 'if disaster will strike; but where, how long and how often?', there is little time to help communities back on their feet', Christophe Legrand, UN Development programme, Madagascar....

The Commission has extended the scope of its disaster risk reduction programme (DIPECHO) to Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi and the Comoros, with a new decision for €5 million....

Following three successive cyclones and tropical storm in February, March and April 2000 which devastated the North-eastern and Central East Coast areas of Madagascar, coupled with persistent drought in the South, an FAO/WFP joint mission visited the

“Recurrent disasters are making people vulnerable. Precautions have to be taken for the future, especially in terms of construction,” said Volana Rarivoson, of the World Food Programme...

"This is why we should...respond to the coming crisis and further develop disaster preparedness activities,” said Peter Rees, Head of the International Federation Operations Support Department....

Madagascar, dans son ensemble est un pays très exposé aux cataclysmes naturels, tels que les cyclones, les inondations, la sécheresse, la famine,les invasions acridiennes, les naufrages en mer et les épidémies. Les invasions acridiennes ne sont pas

This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.