January 24, 2016 4:44 pm
The majority of people who die in landslides die in small-scale ones that kill two or three people, and fall off the radar...The good thing is that you can actually do something about them. You can understand the conditions in the location in question, work out exactly what’s happening there when it rains, and so on.
December 11, 2015 12:22 am
SMS Lapli was developed by computer science students under Code for Resilience (CfR) Haiti, a World Bank and GFDRR-supported program that brings together technological innovators with government services to accelerate Haiti’s resilience to natural disasters...
December 10, 2015 6:00 pm
15 new approaches, ranging from flood simulation technology, to mobile app building, to weather station pilots, and even film production, will be supported in the first round of grants from the Challenge Fund -- a partnership between GFDRR and UK DFID
October 30, 2015 2:43 pm
Join a discussion on visual decision support in flood management, hosted by GFDRR, the World Bank, Visdom, Riocom, VRVis and the Urban Flood Community of Practice (UFCOP).
October 29, 2015 11:32 pm
Farming can be precarious. This is especially true if you are poor and living in an area susceptible to climate shocks. In sub-Saharan Africa[, with approximately 1 billion inhabitants, agriculture still accounts for roughly 64% of employment.
October 27, 2015 1:32 pm
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched the national and district level flood and drought disaster risk maps in a brief ceremony on Monday, October 15, 2015 in Accra.
October 26, 2015 11:30 pm
Sub-Saharan Africa is making significant economic and development strides. Yet, natural disasters, combined with the effects of climate change, rapid urbanization, and conflict situations are threatening these gains, keeping vulnerable and poor communities in a chronic cycle of poverty.
October 26, 2015 9:03 pm
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on April 27th was for many an unexpected event. However, for the disaster risk management community in development and humanitarian institutions, this earthquake was only a matter of time. In many ways, all you had to do was look out any window in Nepal and see the spectacular Himalayas – mountains forged through the eons, one earthquake at a time...
October 25, 2015 8:52 pm
In this blog series, UNDP experts and practitioners share their perspective on issues of climate change, in the lead up to COP21 climate conference in December.
October 9, 2015 6:25 pm
Geologists tend to notice when rocks, especially big ones, are out of place. A few years ago, a group of researchers working in the Cape Verde islands, off West Africa, made a particularly jarring discovery—elephant-sized chunks of basalt and limestone that had formed at sea level and somehow ended up more than six hundred feet above, on a volcanic plateau on Santiago Island...
