Members from Sri Lanka The Annual General Meeting of DuryogNivaran took place on the 12th of March 2013, online and hosted from the Distance Learning Center, Colombo 07. Many members from Sri Lanka attended the meeting in person and members overseas were provided with the facility...
Zurich and Practical Action team up in a global flood resilience alliance Practical Action and Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) have formed a significantly enhanced £6.4 million alliance in building community resilience to disasters, especially flooding which affects more people globally than any other natural hazard. This 5-year...
Drought conditions in Sri Lanka have hit more than 20,000 farmers and destroyed 16,000 acres of rice fields in the Indian Ocean island nation, officials said. The government has allocated 3.7 billion rupees, or $28 million, to provide relief to those affected, but Disaster Management Minister...
A minor tremor was felt in Siymbalanduwa in the Moneragala District last morning, Geological Surveys and Mines Bureau Chairman N.P. Wijeratne said. Read more...
Weekly water bowser the only saviour, as life hits rock bottom in villages with wells, tanks and reservoirs drying up. Read more...
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AIDMI, (All India Disaster Mitigation Institute) which has two decades of experience in working with schools to ensure school safety, has been selected by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) for imparting training on school safety on a pilot basis for the financial year...
A two-day training workshop was organized by Interco-operation Social Development India (ICSD), Delhi; Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK and All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) on FORIN and M & E for CSDRM, on May 8-9, 2013 at Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The workshop is to...
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...