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A group of key UN and non-UN aid agencies attending climate change talks in Bonn are calling for the humanitarian impacts of climate change to be addressed in the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen in December...

The annual address given by the Prime Minister at the start of the hurricane season on the state of disaster management in St. Vincent and the Grenadines calls for safer schools and recovery programmes...

As we enter this year’s Hurricane Season, the Office of Disaster Management (ODP), has undertaken a special programme to sensitize the population not only to the risks posed by hurricanes but many other risks...

With the support of the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department, ACTED is implementing the rehabilitation and cleaning of irrigation canals, embankments and dykes to prevent the risk of flooding...

Bracing for the typhoon months, members of the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) came up with a contingency plan on how to manage and reduce the risk of disaster to lives and properties...

Reducing the vulnerabilities of communities to disasters will play a critical role in addressing some of the challenges of population movement caused by disasters, says IOM ahead of the Global Platform 2009...

The National Disaster Management Council (NDMC) convened its annual meeting today, chaired by His Excellency the Governor David Pearey at the Maria’s By The Sea Hotel’s Conference Room...

According to the 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction parts of north-east Kenya will continue be exposed to famine due to lack of rain...

La Secretaría Técnica de Gestión de Riesgo y el Municipio de Latacunga, el próximo viernes 12 de junio, a las 10h00, en el Salón de la Ciudad, del Palacio Municipal, firmarán un convenio con el objetivo de reducir la vulnerabilidad...

The Swedish government has decreed that on 1st January 2009 a new authority, called the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) will come into force to strengthen Sweden’s civil protection and emergency preparedness...