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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USD 4M to mitigate Rinchending slide
Should that work, it will bring in an additional USD 250,000 for other landslide-prone areas across the country With approaching monsoon months, landslides and roadblocks along highways cutting across
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Pakistan National Disaster Risk Reduction Policy 2012
The National DRR Policy provides an overall guiding framework for addressing the high levels of disaster risk permeating Pakistani Society. It covers both natural and man-made hazards. The policy seeks
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China to build earthquake warning system
China is planning to build a national earthquake monitoring and warning system in five years. While the system would never be able to forecast an earthquake, it could detect quakes and notify people within
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Earthquake early warning sytems installed in AJK
A German non-governmental organisation formally handed over the control of six earthquake early warning systems to Azad Kashmir’s State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA). Malteser International had
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Building capacity on climate change adaptation in the coastal areas of Pakistan (CCAP): synthesis report 2012
The report provides a summary of results of 11 studies carried out over the past two years (2011, 2012) under the Building Capacity on Climate Change Adaptation in the Coastal Areas of Pakistan, a Worldwide
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Toward resilience: a guide to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose lives and
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Investing in resilience: ensuring a disaster-resistant future
Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of
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Disaster resilient habitat, Bangladesh: an alternative comprehensive approach to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
This document states that “Resilient Habitat” is an alternative approach in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation targeting the most vulnerable communities. Expanding the last decade’s
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Case studies on flash flood risk management in the himalayas: in support of specific flash flood policies
Since 2006, ICIMOD has commissioned various case studies as part of a study on flash flood risk reduction in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. The purpose of these studies was to create a knowledge base
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Eastern U.S. earthquakes pack strong punch - study
Shock waves from earthquakes in the eastern United States can travel much farther and cause damage over larger areas than previously thought, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday in a study of the