Duryog Nivaran Secretariat c/o Janathakshan, No 5, Lionel Edirisinghe Mawatha, Kirulapone, Colombo 00500, Sri Lanka
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) is pleased to invite all disaster risk reduction stakeholders to participate in the Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction "Invest Today for a Safer Tomorrow" (19-23 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland). The generic invitation...
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Please find the background documents for the core group for the Gender inputs to the 5th AMCDRR declaration: 1. Previous AMCDRR declarations a. Beijing Action for DRR - 2005 b. Delhi Declaration - 2007 c. Kuala Lumpur Declaration - 2008 d. Incheon Declaration - 2010 2. UNISDR Gender Study 3. Draft declaration for 5th AMCDRR 4. Background...
Views from the Frontline 2013’ (VFL 2013) is a participatory action-research project undertaken by civil society actors in conjunction with government bodies and local communities. It aims at measuring progress towards the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) at the local level across...
The Strategic forum with civil society networks: Consultations on a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction was held in Geneva Switzerland from 10th to 11th February. This conference aimed at informing the civil society of the consultative process and identifying opportunities for engagement in the preparation of the...
Earthquakes and Tsunamis have been occurring in this world since the dawn of time. Some of them have been the basis of myth. They say that Zeus angered by the arrogance of the Kings of Atlantis, that perfect Utopia, send an earthquake that sank Atlantis. Earthquakes...
The World Bank has engaged Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) to conduct a regional assessment of the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) institutions in the South Asia Region (SAR). The scope of the work covers seven countries, in which the project seeks to stock-take and map...
By Priyanthi Fernando, posting live from the Workshop on Implementing the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: Learning from Global and Regional Experiences. Andrew Maskrey, Coordinator, Global Assessment Report of Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) spoke at the inaugural session of the Workshop on Implementing the Sendai...
Duryog Nivaran wishes all the women of the world a happy Women’s Day, where they will become more visible in the contribution they make to disaster risk reduction and development in general. To reiterate some key messages drawn for the report prepared towards the Asia-Pacific Input...
Earthquakes and Tsunamis have been occurring in this world since the dawn of time. Some of them have been the basis of myth. They say that Zeus angered by the arrogance of the Kings of Atlantis, that perfect Utopia, send an earthquake that sank Atlantis. Earthquakes...