UN support to the UN Plan of Action on Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience

A new project, Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological Early Warning Systems in the Pacific, has been launched with funding from the CREWS Initiative.

Climate change has accentuated natural hazards, including flash floods caused by melting of snow and ice in many regions of the world.

This case study chronicles Viet Nam’s experiences in conducting vulnerability and risk assessments (VRAs) of selected agriculture sectors at the national level and a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to support sectoral adaptation planning, budgeting, and

Somalia is affected by frequent climate-related hazards such as floods, droughts and tropical storms. Flood frequency has increased in Somalia over the past 20 years.

There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said today - much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19.

During the past two years persistent heavy rain, followed by floods, landslides, and strong winds, has raised Lake Tanganyika to dangerous levels.

There is no shortage of innovative ideas and approaches when it comes to building resilience to floods, it is key to translate ideas into actions.

The study focuses on a pilot sector of 67 km, covering a large part of central Ouagadougou and its strategic infrastructures, at the intersection of the future planned mass transit system and the areas of the city a priori considered more flood prone (for