El concurso es una iniciativa de la Organización Panamericana de Salud (OPS/OMS), las Naciones Unidas, secretaría de la Estrategia Internacional para la Reducción de Desastres (ONU/EIRD) con el apoyo del Banco Mundial; en el marco de la Campaña Mundial de Reducción de Desastres 2008-2009.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
World Bank, the
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Plan International headquarters
Pan American Health Organization
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
Report cites reference to country-level risk reduction efforts being strengthened in programme initiatives and pilot projects to enhance knowledge, skills and resources of partners in all points of the risk management cycle...
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
With relief efforts already underway, Colonel Jean Rakotomalala, Executive Secretary of the BNGRC, stressed the importance of Madagascar's recent investments in disaster preparedness...
Para evitar las fatales consecuencias experimentadas con el fenómeno El Niño en el pasado, y enfrentar mejor este escenario adverso, el Gobierno Regional de Piura en coordinación con ONGs han organizado un taller regional para analizar el impacto...
'We can only succeed to adapt to climate change if we fight poverty effectively and generate the resources needed for the purpose,' said Prime Minister Meles Zenawi...
ESCAP and JAXA will continue and expand their collaboration, capitalizing on expertise and strengths of each organization, so as to promote evidence-based decision making in disaster risk reduction and climate change...
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
After thousands of schools were destroyed, the effort to 'build back better' - former President Bill Clinton's slogan for the recovery process - seems to be succeeding in school reconstruction in Banda Aceh...
Aiding storm preparedness by automatically integrating National Weather Service 24-hour forecasts and including new interactive maps to help users create realistic scenarios in their communities...
SEISMCARE, a new assembly created by the French Directorate for the Environment has been established to gather officials and experts involved in seismic prevention, mitigation and remediation for the Caribbean...
