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Measures to improve regional food security by cutting food losses and waste and by mitigating and adapting to climate change will be considered by FAO's Regional Conference for the Near East...

This documents presents the recommendations elaborated during the Round Table on The Value Added of Women in Civil Protection organised with the support of Algerian Civil Protection in Algiers on 26 March 2012. The document includes Round Table

The recent shift of disaster risk management from response to prevention and preparedness and a greater attention to educate families, as the first responders in the risk management, have opened the way to a major involvement of women in the design and implementation of civil protection measures at all levels...

How to improve resistance to damage of important infrastructures and their functioning without interruption during and after hazardous events is the main focus of the workshop on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Mitigation for Critical Facilities’ Failure organised by the EU-funded PPRD South Programme in Cyprus, from 21 to 23 March 2012...

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in North Africa, covering the countries of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia. As adaptation action in West Asia is not being examined within the review, the only

This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

PPRD South to hold a workshop on good governance involving strategic planning experts, EC, UN and private sector to discuss and share experience on the key functions and responsibilities of national civil protection in managing old and new risks - like climate change...

The League of Arab States (LAS) and UNISDR move one step closer to a plan of action on disaster risk reduction for the Arab region. The action plan is expected to be endorsed at the first-ever Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab region planned for 2012.