As the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the 2004 tsunami-devastated regions continues, questions remain on how thisrebuilding effort contributes to building disaster-resilient communities and better environment as well as preserving the legacy of the

Objective The DMC participant will learn how to: - Develop effective strategies and systems for disaster response and recovery - Integrate disaster response and recovery arrangements with disaster reduction strategies and systems - Apply risk management

ESCAP, in partnership with the United Nations Country Team in Pakistan and the Government of Pakistan, will organize a ‘Regional high-level expert group meeting to reduce flood disaster risk in Pakistan’ in Islamabad, Pakistan, 9-10 November 2010. The

Indonesia Disaster Management Expo 2010 which was due to be held from 20-22 October 2010 will now take place from to 4-6 November 2010 in order to synergize with the ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response Simulation Exercise (ARDEX). The venue is

Risks must be prevented in the recovery process to avoid repeating the disaster. In this context, essential capacities to integrate disaster risk reduction - climate change adaptation (DRR-CCA) in recovery must be developed before a disaster occurs. Some

The International Training Course on Flood Disaster Risk Management (FDRM) has been designed to achieve the goal of creating flood resilient society. With rich experiences in providing similar courses for natural disaster mitigation at international level

This event will address the relationship between climate change and the increase of disasters in Brazil; aspects of disaster management to be discussed are: prevention, response, reconstruction. It will also develop proposals for the Civil Defence and