Update

The Emergency Bridge Reconstruction and Vulnerability Reduction Project for Haiti was approved on 18 November 2008 by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors...

In collaboration with its membership the Intenational Telecommunication Union (ITU) is identifying the necessary radio-frequency spectrum for climate monitoring and disaster prediction...

WFP and IFAD have launched a joint initiative with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which aims to help provide poor rural farmers with financial protection following natural hazard events....

A statement from the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees: Much of the loss of life in the great cyclone Nargis in Myanmar could have been avoided. Humanitarian organizations urge governments to take action before the disasters hit...

Margareta Wahlström becomes Assistant Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the UNISDR Secretariat...

All eyes are glued to the radar screen in anticipation of the cyclone season in Madagascar, and this year the authorities and their humanitarian partners hope not be caught off guard....

'Before Nargis, we had nothing prepared for disaster risk reduction. We need to do a lot more.' said Dr Tun Lwin, the director general of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology....

Flood hazard maps will soon be made available by the Department of Disaster Management...

An estimated 100 million dollars was needed to fight the swarms of locusts through west Africa in 2004. UNISDR spoke with Alhasanne Adama Diallo, Director of the regional center of the Hydrometeorological Institute of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control, about the locust problem.

Yann Arthus Bertrand worked with UNISDR to create a 2006 calendar that contains photographs highlighting the need for disaster risk reduction. UNISDR asked Yann some questions about his photography and interest in disaster preparedness.