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Professor Saini Yang Appointed as the New Executive Director of IRDR
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08 July 2024 IRDR Introduction Video
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23 May 2023 Agreement on IRDR Phase II became effective on May 11 2023
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IRDR SC member Shuaib Lwasa at the Third High Level Forum on UN GGIM
28 October 2014
The Third High Level Forum on UN Global Geospatial Information Management focusing on “Sustainable Development with Geospatial Information” last 22 – 24 October brought together member states and geospatial stakeholders with the unique opportunity to shar
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Pan-Asia Risk Reduction (PARR) Fellowship Program proposes partnership
27 October 2014
Following a proposal submitted by Hasan Virji of the International START Secretariat, a recent strategy meeting at the IRDR International Centre of Excellence in Taipei heard a presentation of the new Pan-Asia Risk Reduction (PARR) Fellowship Program.The
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IRDR REAL: African universities reach out to local disaster managers
26 October 2014
Dr. Mateugue Diack, of the University of Gaston Berger, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, one of the leaders of the IRDR International Centre of Excellence in Africa, REAL, spoke at the United Cities and Local Governments congress in Rabat in early October 2014.A
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IRDR at UNISDR Workshop on Risk Sensitive Investment
24 October 2014
The UNISDR Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) conducted the 2nd Regional Workshop on “Risk Sensitive Investment Planning” last 15 -17 October 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. The event gathered representatives from different countries to help devel
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Indigenous focus at UN Samoa conference
24 October 2014
A Massey University forum on indigenous approaches to reducing disaster risk held in Samoa in September has been praised by the Samoan Head of State. The university‟s Pacific Research and Policy Centre and the Joint Centre for Disaster Research hosted the
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Call for Abstracts: 2015 World Social Science Forum
23 October 2014
The Call for abstracts for the 2015 World Social Science Forum (WSSF) is now accepting applications. Under the theme "Transforming Global Relations for a Just World", the next Forum will look into issues of inequality and justice. It will take place in Du
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IRDR ICoE Visiting Scientist Programme generates new research trajectories
22 October 2014
During the recent Board meeting of the IRDR International Centre of Excellence Taipei, it was reported that one of the results of a Visiting Scientists programme funded by the supporting local Academy of Sciences will be a new programme on systems approac
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EU Working Group to conduct workshop on the state of the art of disaster loss data recording
21 October 2014
A workshop meeting on “State of the art of disaster loss data recording in the EU: progress towards EU guidelines” is scheduled on 23-24 October 2014 at the European Response and Coordination Centre in Brussels, Belgium.A working group of EU Member States
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Chair of IRDR Regional Committee in the Latin American and Caribbean Region on emergency response to the chikungunya epidemic
20 October 2014
Dr Barbara Carby, seasoned administrator in disaster management, looks at Jamaica’s seeming focus on emergency response to the chikungunya epidemic. She posits in her critique that the millions of dollars being spent now by the country would have derived
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International Symposium on Risk Communication
20 October 2014
Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Japan Science and Technology Agency JST, this workshop which was held at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, looked into research and application perspectives for new work
