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IRP collects news and organizes events to facilitate discussion on resilient recovery and building back better, including the annual International Recovery Forum.

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5th annual world town planning day online conference
This online conference will bring together ideas from around the world about how we plan for communities in response to water-related issues. They are keen to attract speakers that provide a perspective from outside the traditional realm of planning and
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API disaster management online course
The topics of lectures are listed bellow: What is disaster management? What are the basic terms used in this discipline (hazard, vulnerability, risk, mitigation, reparedness, response, recovery etc)? Understanding earthquake hazard Understanding tsunami
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Flood risk management
This course introduces the participants to the state-of-the-art concepts and practices of flood risk management. It covers the European experience in managing floods and stresses in the use of the latest tools in flood risk management. Course content The
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Poznan
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4th international conference on flood recovery, innovation and response
FRIAR 2014 is the fourth Conference of this successful series. The conference started at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London 2008 and was reconvened at the Lombardy Region in Milano in 2010 and in Dubrovnik in 2012. Flooding is a global phenomenon
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Tegucigalpa
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Honduras: Taller nacional para el desarrollo de marco nacional de planificación pre-desastre de la recuperación
Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning (PDRP) is the pro-active process of anticipating future recovery issues, developing a scenario-based recovery plan, and building the capacity to improve recovery outcomes – all before a disaster happens. UNISDR jointly with
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Sanremo
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International course on law and legal protection in natural disasters
The Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, the IFRC and the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are pleased to announce the International Course on Law and Legal Protection in Natural Disasters.
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Bangkok
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International flood forum on identification of effective flood risk management from lessons learned
The 2011 flood events severely affected Thailand, especially in the Chao Phraya River Basin. With growing population and infrastructures the exposure to natural hazards is inevitably increasing. A major flood event, like that in 2011, has a tendency to
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Damage and reconstruction needs assessment (DRNA) online course
Damage and Reconstruction Needs Assessment (DRNA) is a specialization course under the Natural Disaster Risk Management Program that offers a set of diagnostic tools to measure the type and extent of damage and losses caused by a specific disaster
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Orlando, Florida
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2014 National hurricane conference
The primary goal of the National Hurricane Conference is to improve hurricane preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation in order to save lives and property in the United States and the tropical islands of the Caribbean and Pacific. In addition, the
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New York City, New York
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Disaster management and resiliency in the Asia Pacific journalism fellowship
Study tour destinations: New York City, USA; Tokyo, Japan; Sendai, Japan; and Chengdu, China The 2013 Disaster Management and Resiliency Journalism Fellowships program will introduce participating journalists to a broad range of disaster management and
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International Recovery Forum

The International Recovery Forum, established in 2005, convenes a broad range of senior policymakers and practitioners to exchange experiences and facilitate discussion on challenges to resilient recovery and opportunities for building back better. It is a forum designed to generate ideas and collaboration through dialogue and debate, sharing of experiences and the latest evidence in disaster recovery. The forum is coordinated annually in Kobe, Japan, by the International Recovery Platform (IRP) Secretariat, in close consultation with the IRP Steering Committee.

The annual forum is organized around themes to address key prevailing priorities and gaps in knowledge and practice for recovery and building back better. The forum’s themes link with the outcomes and lessons emerging from previous IRP Forums and other relevant global events, in order to advance the field. The International Recovery Forum is among the key activities managed by IRP in support of its mandate to share experiences and learning among countries and all relevant stakeholders, explicitly designated in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

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Kobe skyline Dec 23