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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Satellite imagery guides faster recovery in crisis zones
When crises hit, the first 48 hours can determine how quickly communities recover. Which areas get help first, which roads and hospitals reopen, and how services are restored all depend …
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN endorses first-ever global statistical framework to measure disaster risk and impacts
The United Nations has endorsed a new global statistical framework for disaster-related statistics to help countries better understand …
More than 2.7 million people across 17 regions in the Philippines have been reeling from a series of …
Millions of children are at risk following a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar on 28 March, …
All #disaster relief Press Releases
8 April 2025
20 January 2025
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Resilience rising: Targeting transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific subregions
6 August 2024
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Surge to 2030: Philippines to host Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
10 October 2023
31 May 2023
14 September 2022
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and Climate Action Network Southeast Asia (CANSEA)
'Just transition' pushed by experts, activists and sectors amid record floods, droughts in Asia
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