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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Gender, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation: a learning companion
This Learning Companion aims to provide Oxfam programme staff with the basis for incorporating gender analysis and women
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An inevitable disaster
The landslide-caused glacial lake in the Hunza Valley has put the Pakistani authorities on an emergency footing, but this catastrophe had been predicted for years.
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BMC sends notices to landslide-prone areas
Sharad Vyas | TNN Mumbai: As part of its preparedness plans for monsoon 2010, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) served the first batch of warning notices on Friday to landslide-prone areas of the eastern suburbs.
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Navy divers, disaster response teams, firemen in flood zones
Mumbai The Navy and the National Disaster Response Force will join the BMC fire brigade in flood management as the city braces for a good monsoon this year. After a series of mock flood drills to train its personnel for rescue operations, the BMC has approached the Navy and the NDRF for help.
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Orissa may scrape through Laila effect; heavy
BHUBANESWAR: Laila, the cyclonic storm, formed over Bay of Bengal, was heading towards the Andhra Pradesh coast and its outer wings may just graze Orissa causing rain. The storm after its landfall is likely to move into coastal parts of Orissa. In anticipation, the State Government has already alerted the coastal district administrations and put in place emergency measures.
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Civic body all set with its pre-monsoon plan for Mumbai
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) claims it is ready with its pre-monsoon plan. A ward-wise control room will be commissioned from May 20 and manpower will be readied for disaster preparedness. The National Disaster Relief Flood (NDRF) will form three groups of 45 jawans each for the city, the western suburbs and eastern suburbs.
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PWD removes mud deposited in Bicholim river
The PWD on Thursday began removing the mud, which was deposited in the Bicholim River, where the construction of a bridge is in progress. It may be recalled that PWD, while undertaking the construction work of the parallel bridge on Bicholim River, had deposited heaps of mud near one of the main pillars of the bridge, due to which the entire flow of water from Bicholim River had been blocked.
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Integrating approaches: sustainable livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
Disasters and climate change are increasingly influencing the attainment of development objectives. Poor people regularly face hazards and stresses which undermine their lives and production systems, and on occasions result in widespread disaster. Climate change is causing many hazards and stresses to increase in frequency and intensity.
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Toads can tell when quakes about to strike
Paris: For ages, mankind has craved a tool that can provide early warning of that terrifying moment when the earth begins to shake.
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National plan for disaster management 2010-2015
The National Plan for Disaster Management 2010-2015 is an outcome of the national and international commitments of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and the Disaster Management and Relief Division (DM&RD) for addressing the disaster risks comprehensively.