The country Ecuador, which is known for its natural biodiversity and UNESCO’s biosphere reserve, is currently facing multiple crises and disaster situations. While on one hand, the Global pandemic COVID-19 has spread its killer wings across the country killing over 300 people and affecting more than 7000 as on date (source- www.worldometers.info ), the […]
he deadliest virus in recent times has spread its wings to almost 29 countries around the world; India is also one of them. After China, Italy, Iran, and Korea have alerted their people regarding Coronavirus spread. Italy and Iran ordered lockdown for virus hit areas.
If we take a new phenomenon of China which is reeling under the severe impact of Coronavirus disaster, until late 2019, this was not known popularly in the public domain. Now it is well known and it is considered a global threat.
India has suffered a huge loss as the average annual loss due to disaster is the US $9.8 billion in the last 20 years. Disaster Recovery in India is a big challenge. In the absence of resources in most of the disasters, long term recovery has not attempted. Super Cyclone Orissa 1999, Gujarat Earthquake 2001, Tsunami 2004, Kashmir earthquake 2005, Bihar flood 2008 are few exceptions. All these were supported by the World Bank and ADB. 15th Finance commission, for the first time, has allocated the budget for ex-ante risk reduction. It is certainly going to give new impetus in reducing disaster risk and economic losses but might not be very substantial.
Mozambique – Disaster Risk Assessment (January 2020) 19 Jan 2020 Mozambique English Download From 18 to 27 November, in close coordination with Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC), IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) teams conducted a Disaster Risk Assessment at locality level (localidade), corresponding to the lowest administrative level in the country. This […]
News & Weeks of the week typically covers :
1. Tropic Cyclone ‘Blake’ in Australia
2. Cold Waves in North India
3. Explosion in a chemical Tank
The most destructive and costliest wildfire in California’s history, the Camp Fire, killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 19,000 structures in November 2018. A year later, crews were still collecting and carrying away piles of wood, metals, appliances, contaminated soil, toxic household chemicals, and other debris and waste totaling more than 3.2 million metric tons […]
Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR) Framework and Toolkit The Queensland DIDRR Framework and Toolkit provides a roadmap for people with disability, community and disability support services, and local disaster management to work together to co-design DIDRR innovations, implement, and evaluate their impact on decreasing risk and increasing the resilience of people with disability to disaster. […]
Every year on 4th December, Chemical Disaster Prevention Day is observed to emphasise the importance of chemical safety. Every year on 4th December, Chemical Disaster Prevention Day is observed to emphasise the importance of chemical safety. It was on 3.12.1984 the world’s worst industrial disaster took place in Bhopal from M/S Union Carbide India Limited. […]
NEW DELHI: Nine countries including Australia, United Kingdom, Italy and Sri Lanka have decided to join India’s global initiative on building disaster resilient infrastructure as a key adaptation measure to fight the disastrous consequences of climate change. These countries have conveyed their willingness to join this global platform – Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) […]
NEW DELHI: Nine countries including Australia, United Kingdom, Italy and Sri Lanka have decided to join India’s global initiative on building disaster resilient infrastructure as a key adaptation measure to fight the disastrous consequences of climate change. These countries have conveyed their willingness to join this global platform – Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) […]
