disaster preparedness

WFP/Gemma Snowdon

‘Brutal weather’ continues as Rohingya refugee children endure devastating rainfall in Bangladesh

9 July 2019
Migrants and Refugees

Heavy flooding and landslides in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, has left thousands of children and families in an increasingly dire situation with critical infrastructure damaged or destroyed, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday, while scaling up relief efforts to those vulnerable children.

UN Environment

‘Disaster resilient’ farming reduces agriculture risks, yields economic gains, says new UN agriculture agency report

13 May 2019
SDGs

A scale of economic gains through easy-to-implement "disaster resilient" farming practices was revealed on Monday at the launch of a new study by the United Nations agriculture agency.

UNICEF/UN0293297/DE WET

Massive cholera vaccine campaign planned for cyclone-ravaged Mozambique, as UN calls for 'urgent' step-up in support

2 April 2019
Humanitarian Aid

Around 900,000 doses of cholera vaccine arrived in Mozambique on Tuesday to help stave off a possible epidemic, after the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai, amid reports that the disease has already infected more than 1,000 people in affected areas.

UN OCHA/Nadia Todres

UN relief chief concludes disaster-preparedness mission to Haiti and Panama

6 July 2018
Humanitarian Aid

The top United Nations emergency relief official has assured the Haitian government of the organization’s support for its efforts to prepare against hurricanes and stamp out cholera.

View of the valley towards Basseterre, St. Kitts. File
UNDP

Tsunami preparedness underway in St Kitts and Nevis

7 July 2016
General News

The tiny Caribbean island nation St Kitts and Nevis has been working with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to make sure it is in a “state of readiness” if a tsunami were to hit the low-lying archipelago.

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After deadly earthquake, New Zealand stresses disaster preparedness at UN

27 September 2011
New Zealand today underlined the need for effective disaster preparedness and promised to share with the United Nations and other concerned organizations the lessons the country had learned from responding to the deadly earthquake that struck its second-largest city, Christchurch, in February.