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 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,...
by Naveeda | Jun 4, 2020 | Publications
The world of international cooperation is in transition. Global power shifts and the rise of populism have made the world multipolar, but not necessarily more multilateral. The traditional North–South aid system is being called into question, while transnational...
