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5th May 2017

The iPrepare Business team was in Manila to meet local partners working on building the disaster resilience of Micro, Small…

21st Apr 2017

Following the conduct of the ASEAN Regional Disaster Emergency Response Simulation Exercise (ARDEX) in Brunei Darussalam…

30th Jan 2017

The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Act from 2007 provides the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM)…

14th Dec 2016

In 2010, the state of Rio the Janeiro was hit by extreme floods and landslides that also badly affected the municipality…

29th Nov 2016

The member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are geographically located in one of the world´s…

10th Nov 2016

The first Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) after the adoption of the Sendai Framework was…

25th Oct 2016

The German Government has supported the annual meetings of the Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management (RCC)…

29th Aug 2016

The main topic of this year’s International Disaster and Risk Conference in Davos, Switzerland was “Integrative Risk Management…

24th May 2016

Today, 125 million people need humanitarian assistance, more than 60 million are forcibly displaced, and 218 million have…

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