UN/ISDR secretariat and WHO Launch the World Disaster Reduction Campaign 2008-2009 on 25 January 2008 in Davos
The World Disaster Reduction Campaign 2008-2009: 'Hospitals Safe from Disasters' is a global campaign being launched in Davos, Switzerland on 25 January, by the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) and the World Health Organization (WHO), with support from the World Bank.
The campaign will focus on structural safety of hospitals and health facilities, on keeping health facilities functioning during and after disasters, and on making sure health workers are prepared for natural hazards striking.
A new publication from the United Nations, secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) Regional unit for the Americas, “Disaster Risk Management Today: Global Context, Local Tools” is now available in print, web and CD versions. The publication provides state-of-the-art information on a series of themes in the area of disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This book is part of a collaborative framework of activities on local management and risk and vulnerability reduction, fostered by the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC) and the UN/ISDR in this region. Access the online version in http://www.eird.org/gestion-del-riesgo/index.html
(in Spanish only)
The Business Continuity Planning Workgroup for Healthcare Organizations (BCPWHO)
The Business Continuity Planning Workgroup for Healthcare Organizations (BCPWHO) provides leadership in the advancement of business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency management through collaboration and research. Representing nearly 100 individual members from healthcare institutions across the United States and Canada. Its goals are to:
Develop the science and technique relative to the continuation of business activity and operations in the event of a disaster.
Create a scholarly community in which professionals and investigators from around the world can introduce new work for peer review and discussion.
Influence policy, management, and education of operational continuity
and disaster recovery for academic and nonprofit healthcare organizations.
Ministers and education authorities of Central America and the Dominican
Republic adopted the StrategicFramework for Education on Disaster Risk
Reduction.
Within the ordinary session of the CECC, Ministers and education authorities
of Central America and the Dominican Republic, held last 9th of May in Panama, approved the Strategic Framework for Education on Disaster Risk Reduction. Establishing the commitment to motivate Ministries of education dependencies to use the Strategic Framework to define policies and actions on Disaster Risk Reduction.
Executive summary of the Strategy. (In Spanish only)
Building Safety Week 2008
The International Code Council is celebrating the “Building Safety Week” May 5-11, this year’s theme is “Building Safety: Where You Live, Work and Play.” For more information please visit http://www.iccsafe.org/safety/BSW/
KNOWLEDGE FAIRS
The Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) of the UNDP and European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) within the DIPECHO program: Compiling, dissemination of tools, methodologies and lessons learned in disaster preparation and local risk management in Central America, as part of its regional initiatives, sponsor the National Knowledge Fairs: Reducing disasters: Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador and the Regional Knowledge Fair that will take place in El Salvador.
Regional Fair (El Salvador): May 22 & 23
The UN/ISDR has created a useful reference tool for practitioners, academia and students; the interactive CD "Urban Risk Portable Virtual Library".
You can access the online version of the CD at: http://www.eird.org/bibliovirtual/riesgo-urbano/index.html (in Spanish only)
ECHO`s country documents
European Community Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) has available country documents for Guatemala, Honduras Nicaragua and El Salvador; these documents were produced during the DIPECHO (ECHO´s program for disaster preparation) national consultation workshops held in November 2007. More than 400 specialists in risk management collaborated in producing the country documents, establishing the geographical and thematic priorities recommended to the donor for the next DIPECHO´s work plan in Central America.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE SUB-REGIONAL ANDEAN JOURNALISIM CONTEST ON RISK MANAGEMENT/ PREVENTION AND DISASTER RESPONSE
For more information click here ( in Spanish only)
We now have the winners!!!
We would like to thank and congratulate all of
you, the children who participated in the drawing and painting contest, the supporting schools and other institutions from participating countries,
along with the civil protection agencies, local, national and international organizations of Latin America and the Caribbean that helped promote the contest and raise awareness surrounding the theme "Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School". More information
Local Risk and Disaster Management Strengthening in the Education Sector in Central America More information
