Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, the "Cyclone Man of India," has been awarded the United Nations Sasakawa Award 2025 for Disaster ...

P.K. Mishra highlighted India's Disaster Risk Reduction financing at a Geneva event. India's system exceeds USD 28 billion.

In 2015, governments around the world agreed on a new global framework to reduce the impact of disasters. Ten years on, it's ...

Anticipated outcomes include the development of a clear roadmap to enhance insurance as a tool in disaster risk management in Nigeria. By the end of the workshop, participants are expected to ...

Representatives from the member agencies of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) and World Bank Country Director Zafer Mustafaoglu were also present. Meticulously ...

Suphachol Suphachalasai, Barry Maher, Danielle N Minnett, and Junko Mochizuki. "Bangladesh: Disaster Risk Financing", High-Level Summary Technical Assistance Reports ...

In the 24th Gawad Kalasag Seal and Special Awards for Excellence in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management and Humanitarian Assistance in December 2024, the President called on concerned agencies “to ...

Clients need to be made aware of disaster risk during, before and immediately after an event, but there is a time when communicating risk is the most effective, a speaker said during the recent Ca ...

Academics have criticised the ‘shared responsibility’ framing for its ambiguity on the division of responsibilities, and for the tension between the placement of governments at the centre of disaster ...

Disaster and risk are threats to World Heritage sites. The increasing impact of disasters in Africa and their growing complexity is a great concern for site managers, heritage professionals, and ...

India is committed to the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Principal Secretary, P.K. Mishra said on Friday (November 1, 2024), while calling for ...