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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...
Building Code Workshop for the seismically active region of Mount Cameroon
On 3 July, the partners based at the University of Buea held a Expert committee meeting/workshop to...
Request for Expression of Interest (EOI): Strengthening of SADC Regional Disaster Preparedness and Response Institutional and Coordination Mechanisms
The SADC Secretariat has received a loan from the World Bank towards the implementation of the STRENGTHENING...
KNYSNA FIRES OF 2017: LEARNING FROM THIS DISASTER
The Partners based at Stellenbosch University South Africa, in collaboration with Santam and the CSIR (Council....png&w=304&h=188&d=1&crop=1)
2019 Global Platform Report
During the sixth session Global Platform on DRR , held in Geneva Switzerland, the 2019 edition...
Periperi U at the Global Platform 2019
From 13 - 17 May 2019, representatives from the Periperi U partners travelled to Geneva, Switzerland...
Periperi U Phase IV Evaluation Report Released
Recently, Periperi U had an evaluation on its activities between 26 May 2016 to 25 May...
WCDRR: Public Invest. in Infrastructure to Reduce Flood Disaster Risk in Algiers, Djillali Benouar
WCDRR: African Higher Education Institutions in Advancing DRR, Djillali Benouar
