UNESCO, in partnership with national and international stakeholders, continues to support disaster risk reduction in ...

International Day for Disaster Reduction 2022: Millions of people around the world are impacted by natural and man-made disasters every year, however, governments globally are realizing that most of ...

The United Nations system, coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction, has guidelines for nations and municipalities to manage natural hazard risk. Foremost among these, in many ...

We’re launching the first Disaster Risk and Age Index at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, 14-18 March. The Index ranks 190 countries across the world on the disaster ...

It is just over three years since United Nations Member States adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global plan to reduce disaster losses, which is pivotal to the ...

UNESCO has long-standing experience in harnessing the potential of science, technology and innovation to better understand natural hazards, and to strengthen the resilience of communities. UNESCO has ...

The human and environmental cost of climate change is all around us, and on the rise. The UN reports about 90% of all disasters are weather-related, and that weather and climate are major drivers of ...

This International Day of Disaster Reduction, I was thinking about the theme of children and young people being partners in disaster risk reduction and how it applies to my own experience working in ...

PHILIPPINES – CIRCA SEPT 2009:A group of people swim at Karangalan village circa Sept 2009 in the Philippines. Typhoon Ondoy left hundreds of thousand families displaced and killed hundreds of ...

Since 2011, more than 9000 people have died in four major typhoons in the Philippines. The lives of millions of other Filipinos have also been impacted by the thousands of other small disasters that ...