Duryog Nivaran Secretariat c/o Janathakshan, No 5, Lionel Edirisinghe Mawatha, Kirulapone, Colombo 00500, Sri Lanka
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...