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UNDRR Webinars & Events >13 October, International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction #ItsAllAboutGovernance #DRRday | Making Cities Resilient online courses | MCR2030 Launch

Please join us this week to enhance your disaster risk reduction knowledge and spread the disaster...

The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Africa's Webinar on Orientation to Local Level Disaster Risk Reduction and Making Cities Resilient

Orientation to Local Level Disaster Risk Reduction and Making Cities Resilient (in English, French and Portuguese) Date:...

WEBINAR: BUILDING AFRICAN YOUTH CAPACITY IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

WEBINAR: BUILDING AFRICAN YOUTH CAPACITY IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION The Africa Programme of Action (PoA) for the...

IEASA - ANIE Joint Virtual Conference 2020 registration

JOINT VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020     INNOVATION AND RESILIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONALISATION IN AN ERA OF COVID-19 &...

Webinar 2: Using risk information and disaster risk profiles to inform DRR and decision making in Africa, 21 September 2020

On behalf of United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional Office for Africa, the...

UNDRR COVID-19 Webinars & Upcoming Online Training: Risk-informed investment |#NoNaturalDisasters | Resilience of Local Governments: A multi-sectoral approach to integrate public health and DRM

We are pleased to share the following UNDRR webinars and online training organized with partners. Next Week UNDRR...

AFRICAN DOCTORAL ACADEMY Stellenbosch University September and October Short Courses

AFRICAN DOCTORAL ACADEMY Stellenbosch University September and October Short Courses Online Spring Short Courses 2020 ​More information on our September...

UNDRR Online Short Courses, workshops and webinars

We are pleased to share the following UNDRR GETI online training, workshops and webinars organized with...

Disaster Risk Financing Short Course - 14 August 2020

Financial protection policies and instruments support governments in becoming effective risk managers and help protect lives,...

Unpacking hazards: launch of a new scientific report on hazards definition for the Sendai Framework Webinar

The broad range of hazards, and the incrementally interconnected, cascading and complex nature of natural and...

COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research

Based on the outpouring of interest from the research community and our mission to advance convergence...

COVID-19 Global Research Registry and COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the urgent need for coordination, collaboration, and information-sharing among researchers worldwide. CONVERGE, a...

Launch of The Global Risks Report 2020

The 15th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report is published as critical risks are manifesting....

Reflection on ARMS 2

  The Second African Risk Methods School (ARMS II)[1] jointly organised by UNESCO, and the Periperi U...

African Risk Methods School 2019 - Addis Ababa

The African continent is experiencing massive shift towards urbanisation with ever growing and developing cities home...

Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science

In June 2019, the director of the partners based at the University of Sciences and Technology...

Periperi U join new Af-STAG and AYAB

Staff from the Periperi U partners were invited to apply to become members of the newly...

International Summer School on Humanitarian Engineering at Makerere University, Uganda

Makerere University collaborated with Boston University to develop and organise a summer school titled “Humanitarian Engineering...