Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Disaster Preparedness
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Signs in groundwater may help predict earthquakes six months in advance
Scientists searching for a way to predict earthquakes have uncovered the most promising lead yet, after uncovering tell-tale chemical spikes in groundwater up to six months before tremors struck. Major
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The Sustainable Development Goals: will they deliver climate compatible development for vulnerable countries?
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges the world faces today. It affects all aspects of the development agenda, from poverty eradication to health care, to economic growth and disaster risk
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NSW farmers put on a brave face as they battle worst drought in 100 years
The cracked ground beneath Charles Brett's boots is so dry that even the weeds have capitulated in the fading soil. While Sydney endured its wettest August in 15 years, a few millimetres of rain has barely
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$70 million American support for disaster preparedness
KATHMANDU: The United States, through its US Agency for International Development, has announced three new programmes worth up to $70 million (approx Rs 6.85 billion), aiming to help Nepali communities
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Downstream voices: wetland solutions to reducing disaster risk
This report makes the case for addressing ecosystem degradation as one of the root causes of risk and vulnerability and for opting for ecosystem-based solutions as a way to reduce disaster risk and build
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UNDP Report: India’s rural employment, education schemes move in right direction
India may have little to feel proud about in the findings of UNDP’s Human Development Report for 2014, but the good news is that with ongoing rural employment and school education programmes and some serious
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Learning from megadisasters: lessons from the great East Japan earthquake
Disaster risk management is becoming increasingly important as population densities rise in urban areas around the world. A new report, Learning from Megadisasters, shares lessons learned from the Great
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River protection project to be implemented with ADB credit
The government will implement two separate projects for riverbank protection and strengthening climate resilience and disaster preparedness in eight coastal towns with credit support from the Asian Development
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Flood protection plan to be implemented from July 1
The rescue departments have prepared a flood protection plan which would be enforced after July 1. Punjab emergency services (Rescue-1122) Director General Rizwan Naseer said that a flood protection plan
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WB to give additional $140m for disaster preparedness
The World Bank will provide Bangladesh with additional credit of $140 million to improve and strengthen critical disaster prevention infrastructure in the coastal areas of the country. A loan agreement