Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

At the Pacific Climate Change Roundtable (PCCR), held in Samoa 12-14 May 2015, 190 climate change practitioners mainly from the Pacific region and also from the international arena, met to review the delivery of the Pacific...

In a recent assessment of the success or otherwise of pooled service delivery initiatives in the Pacific island region, Matthew Dornan and I did not consider the World Bank-led Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance pilot as we felt...

When Cyclone Pam, a Category 5 storm, tore through the island chain last month bringing surging seas and 250 kmh winds, a network of humanitarian data technicians quickly mobilized along with the traditional aid responders....

In a recent assessment of the success or otherwise of pooled service delivery initiatives in the Pacific island region, Matthew Dornan and I did not consider the World Bank-led Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance pilot as we felt...

The European Union Global Climate Change Alliance regional project in the Pacific Small Island States has completed the first four in a series of nine country-specific climate change adaptation videos. The videos, conceptualised...

First major agreement of the Post-2015 development agenda reached at landmark UN Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. One of the largest storms to ever make landfall, Haiyan affected some 9.5 million people in the Philippines...

Sendai, Japan, 14 March 2015 – Top insurers from around the world have called on governments, Saturday, to step up global efforts to build resilience against natural disasters, highlighting that average economic losses from...

With the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction approaching (14-18 March 2015, Sendai, Japan), the European Union delivers on its external action. > Watch the video This Programme results from an on-going partnership...

A few days away from the third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 14-18 March 2015, Sendai, Japan, the ACP Group launched a Compendium of Risk Knowledge with the support of the European Union. The study shows that...