International Recovery Forum 2021 Building Back Better from Compound Disasters: Practical Cases and Lessons for Recovery from Natural Hazards and COVID-19

22 January 2021 14:00 – 17:30 JST Register to Participate via Zoom   Dear colleagues,  We are delighted to invite you to the International Recovery Forum 2021, to be held virtually on 22 January 2021 from 14:00 Japan Standard Time.   The International Recovery Forum 2021 will feature discussions with recovery policy makers and experts...

RCX 21 Pitch Night – Innovations for Resilience

The SkillsBuild Innovation Camp is a team-up between ARISE-Philippines member, the Asia Pacific College (APC) and IBM, that seeks to fast track APC students’ competency in front-end web development.  In this run of IBM’s corporate social responsibility initiative for education and skills development, the participating students were asked to focus their hands-on training developingweb solutions...Continue reading

An update from Mami Mizutori, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction — 4 December 2020

The Secretary-General expressed it very well in his message for World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) on November 5: “Currently we are struggling with what some describe as a tsunami of death and disease due to COVID-19. This metaphor comes easily because living memory remains strong of the worst sudden onset disaster this century, the Indian...Continue reading

An update from Mami Mizutori, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction — 30 October 2020

It is hard to overemphasize how important Target (e) is to the implementation of the Sendai Framework and the overall effort to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Simply stated, we need a substantial increase in the number of national and local disaster risk reduction strategies by the end of this...Continue reading

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