WFP Armenia - Disaster Risk Reduction Initiatives
Located in the mountainous southern region of the Caucasus, Armenia is ranked among the 60 most disaster-prone countries in the world and is further impacted by the Nagorno-Karabakh’s conflict...
Located in the mountainous southern region of the Caucasus, Armenia is ranked among the 60 most disaster-prone countries in the world and is further impacted by the Nagorno-Karabakh’s conflict...
For the past 30 years, the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) has deployed and coordinated search-and-rescue teams to save lives when an earthquake hits a country and causes...
How the Spitak Earthquake helped spur development of disaster risk management in Armenia On December 7, 1988, a fault line ruptured without warning just south of the Caucasus Mountains. The resulting...
New Report Looks at Past Disasters to Prepare for the Future Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery: Are we prepared for the next Pompeii? WASHINGTON, May 8, 2018 — The great disasters...
At the end of 2016, Switzerland will be ending its humanitarian work in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Communities facing natural disasters and ongoing conflict in these countries have benefited...
By Armine Martirosyan President pledges that rehousing programme in country’s second city will be complete by late 2016. A group of Armenians still waiting to be resettled 27 years after a massive...
Global Estimates 2015 - People displaced by disasters
YEREVAN -- Most of the residential buildings in the Armenian capital Yerevan may not withstand a powerful earthquake and are in urgent need of strengthening, an official from the National Seismic...
Two decades on, president intervenes to speed up promised accommodation. By Yeranuhi Soghoyan in Gyumri and Ani Harutyunyan in Yerevan (CRS No. 532, 19-Feb-10) Armenians still homeless from the huge...
Destructive force of 1988 earthquake was so swift that people thought the Armenian city had been bombed. By Ashley Killough in Gyumri (CRS No. 523, 09-Dec-09) It was 1988. The streets of Gyumri were...