The year 2020 was a difficult year for Southeast Asia which, in addition to dealing with the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, faced several disasters caused by extreme weather events, most notably in...
KEY MESSAGES: advancing gender-responsive disaster risk reduction in the context of COVID-19 • LEVERAGE INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES AND MINIMUM STANDARDS ON GENDER EQUALITY The Convention on the...
Key Messages The Caribbean region is exposed to a high level of vulnerabilities due to the structure of its economies. In particular, the region is exposed on account of the high trade/ GDP ratios, a...
The main authors of this publication are Animesh Kumar and Iria Touzon Calle, under the direction of Loretta Hieber Girardet. The COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on countries in...
Resilient infrastructure protects people during disasters and enables communities to recover quickly in the immediate aftermath of a crisis. Two examples from Vanuatu during and after Tropical...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed "deep-rooted vulnerabilities" in public health infrastructure and supply chains. That was the conclusion of the Secretary-General's Special Representative for...
Suva – Pacific island countries are seeking to broaden and strengthen their disaster risk financing strategies as a key element of addressing the ongoing Climate Emergency. With climate change...
Author Yo Kunieda The immense challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have not stopped efforts to protect the health and rights of women and girls in remote areas in Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu...
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction drives the global agenda on disaster risk reduction and resilience. The Sendai Framework addresses both man-made and natural hazards, including...
In 2019, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s (UNDRR) Global Assessment Report called on countries to abandon “hazard-by-hazard” risk management, in favour of a holistic approach...