MANILA, PHILIPPINES (23 September 2020) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $500 million loan to provide Indonesia with quick access to emergency financing in the event of disasters...
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WASHINGTON, September 25, 2020 – The World Bank Treasury and the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)/Asia-Pacific Financial Forum co-organized a virtual workshop on catastrophe bonds for the APEC...
Introduction Disasters are the result of events that overwhelm local response capacity and impact social and economic development. Humanitarian response sets out to save lives and alleviate suffering...
14th September, 2020 The Governor of Vava’u and Chairman of the Vava’u District Emergency Management Committee (DEMC) Lord Fakatulolo officially opened a six-day Disaster Risk Management program for...
Indonesia, which is the world's largest island country and located between the Indian and the Pacific Ocean, regularly faces the hardship of many natural disasters, including earthquakes, tsunamis,...
The Government of Switzerland has pledged USD300,000 in contributions for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Tsunami,...
To mark “Earth Overshoot Day,” which lands on 22 August this year, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing alarming statistics about journalists who cover environmental stories. At least ten...
Two strong and close earthquakes of 6.9 M and 6.8 M at a depth of 26 and 22 km, occurred in the eastern Indian Ocean, approximately 139 km off the central coast of Bengkulu Province (southern...
As of 18 August, the Government of Indonesia has announced 141,370 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across all provinces of the country, with 6,207 deaths. The Government has also announced that 94,458...