by Raphael | Aug 24, 2020 | Cities Clusters - COVID-19, Cities Clusters - DRR, Cities Project, Events
UNDRR GETI, UNOSSC & PAHO Joint Online Training: Making Cities Resilient: Developing & Implementing Local Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies to Respond to COVID-19 & Better Prepare for the Future Background Over the past 20 years disasters have affected...
by Naveeda | Aug 10, 2020 | DRR Knowledge Products, Research
With only 10 years to the realization of 2030 SDG targets and the World remaining off targets, 2020 marked the launch of “a decade of action” aimed at accelerating progress. On the other end, the global pandemic in Coronavirus emerged and spread rapidly, leading to...
by Naveeda | Aug 7, 2020 | Cities Clusters - COVID-19, Cities Project, Cities Project COVID-19 Response, COVID-19, News
6 August, New York – Under the mobilization and coordination of the UNOSSC and its Cities Project team in Beijing, 2,000 disposable sterile masks donated by the China Association of Trade in Services (CATIS) were delivered to the Koidu-New Sembehun City Council in...
by Raphael | Jul 30, 2020 | COVID-19, DRR Knowledge Products, Publications
By Brendan Vickers & Salamat Ali, Commonwealth Secretariat The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented health, economic and humanitarian crisis for the world’s 47 least developed countries (LDCs), including 14 Commonwealth member countries in Africa, Asia and the...
by Raphael | Jul 21, 2020 | DRR News, India-UN Development Partnership Fund, News
21 July 2020. The India-UN Development Partnership Fund, managed by UNOSSC, is working rapidly to support projects to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Areas of focus for the projects include increasing national healthcare capacities, reducing risk of transmission,...