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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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Dr. Ilan Kelman, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO) has received the 2013 Damir Čemerin Award of Local Change for helping people to deal with disasters...
'Communities should work together to identify particularly vulnerable people and to ensure that everyone has a family emergency plan for helping themselves. Tsunami or not, you can still be prepared!' warns Dr Ilan Kelman, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
United Nations International Day for Disaster Reduction happens on October 13 every year. The idea is to engage everyone in disaster risk reduction with the focus on how individuals and families can do to prepare for and respond to disasters...
Following a recent incident involving the Danish cargo ship 'Puma' exposing how little protection Norway has in the event of a radioactive catastrophe, Norwegian authorities called for the development of improved radioactive cargo transport policies...