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Sikkim Earthquake 18 TH September 2011 Situation Report

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An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred on 18th September at 18:11 hrs IST in Sikkim-Nepal Border region. The preliminary hypo-central parameters of this earthquake, as estimated by the Seismic Monitoring Network of India Meteorological Department (IMD) are given below:Date of occurrence : 18/09/2011Time : 18:11 hrs (IST)Magnitude : 6.8Focal depth : 10 Km EpicentreLatitude &Longitude : 27.7o N & 88.2o ERegion : Sikkim-Nepal Border region. The event, which comes under the more...

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CDRN India to Disaster Prevention & Response on October 05, 2011

Himalayan Earthquake, India 2011

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Read A detailed report on the earthquake (M:6.8) of 18th September, 2011 at Sikkim-Nepal border region :-http://www.cdrn.org.in/upload/file/Detailed%20Report%20on%20Sikkim%20Earthquake.pdfAn earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred on 18th September at 18:11 hrs IST in Sikkim-Nepal Border region. The preliminary hypo-central parameters of this earthquake, as estimated by the Seismic Monitoring Network of India Meteorological Department (IMD) are given below:Date of occurrence : 18/09/2011Time : more...

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CDRN India to Disaster Prevention & Response on October 01, 2011

Humanitarian Innovation Fund: 2nd Call for proposals now open

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Today sees the second call for proposals for the ‘large grant facility’ which provides funding to projects up to £150,000 and supports the development, implementation and testing of innovation. The ‘small grant facility’ offers project funding of up to £20,000 and is open to proposals at any time.Four successful projects selected by the independent panel of experts in the first round of grants are already well underway introducing innovative solutions to long standing challenges in delivering more...

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Josh Harris to Disaster Prevention & Response on July 20, 2011

Huawei Releases 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

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Huawei Releases 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility ReportHuawei is committed to driving the sustainable development of the economy, society, and the environment[Shenzhen, China, 13 June, 2011]:Huawei, a leading telecom solutions provider, today released its 2010 corporate social responsibility (CSR) report. The report provides an overall review of Huawei's commitments and practices with regard to its corporate social responsibilities, including implementing fair operations, practicing ongoing more...

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CDRN India to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 17, 2011

Drought Effect: Asset Creation Gathers Pace

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NEW DELHI: There is a silver lining to the drought that hit India in 2009-10. Although it sapped the country's growth, it led to an almost doubling of physical assets created under the government's flagship rural employment scheme that year.The drought of 2009-10 was the worst that the country had faced in 17 years. As regular jobs in the farm sector dried up, more people sought work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, or MGNREGS, helping create assets that more...

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CDRN India to Disaster Prevention & Response on March 09, 2011

Use of technology for emergency response

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March 6, 2011: Minutes after the February 22, 2011, earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, our power lines and water supply stopped working. For those with a battery-operated radio, news of the unfolding disaster was still available, minus images on television. Others like me, with an MP3 player that could also get on radio, were limited by the battery-life of the player itself. Most emergency lines were jammed for the first few hours following the disaster as people came to terms with what more...

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CDRN India to Disaster Prevention & Response on March 09, 2011

Challenges Faced by Humanitarian agency in Emergency Response in Urban areas: Lessons from Haiti and Chile

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Introduction1. The 19th and early 20th centuries, urbanization resulted from and contributed to industrialization. New job opportunities in the cities spurred the mass movement of surplus population away from the countryside. At the same time, migrants provided cheap, plentiful labor for the emerging factories. The present time world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in the history. In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population more...

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Ashique Hasan to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 23, 2011

India for regional cooperation to tackle natural disasters

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Colombo, (PTI) : India said it supports initiatives to facilitate regional cooperation in confronting the challenges posed by natural disasters."The South Asia Region in particular, is extremely vulnerable to these natural calamities which have frequently struck our region with ferocity. The loss in terms of lives and assets and deprivation and dislocation suffered by the people is enormous," Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Kumar said.Kumar was speaking at the opening session of the 3rd Asian more...

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CDRN India to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 16, 2011

Get toilet,solar light free if you build houses in 6 months:World Bank Offer To Kosi Flood Beneficiaries

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Santosh SinghThe Indian Express GroupThe World Bank has offered to Kosi flood relief beneficiaries an incentive that is expected to put the reconstruction process on fast track: rebuild your houses in six months and get toilets and solar lights worth Rs 7,300 free of cost. The offer stands for 1,00,00 beneficiaries under the $259 million Bihar Kosi Recovery Project started in collaboration with Bihar government recently. World Bank president Robert B Zoellick was in Patna last month to sign more...

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CDRN India to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 16, 2011

Natural Disaster Contributed to Price Rise Could Spark Unrest

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High and volatile prices for key commodities, including food products, could spark unrest in poor countries, warned the heads of the WTO and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Monday.Rising food prices “are now stoking global inflation, not to mention political unrest of proportions that we could have seldom imagined” said WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, speaking at the opening of a two-day conference on commodities in Geneva this week.UNCTAD Secretary-General Supachai more...

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CDRN India to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 09, 2011

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India world’s second most natural disaster prone country

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India ranks second in the world for natural disasters after China, a top UN official has said underlining that unplanned urbanisation and failure to address the issue of climate change pose a grave threat worldwide. The two rapidly growing countries in the world - China and India - rank first and second in the number of reported natural disasters. While China witnessed 22 natural disasters, India came second with 16. About 373 natural disasters killed over 296,800 people last year. The more...

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CDRN India to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 03, 2011

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When Disaster Strikes: Women's Particular Vulnerabilities and Amazing Strengths

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This presentation explores some of the particular issues affecting women in disasters --- both the specific vulnerabilities they face but also the amazing strengths which they bring to recovery efforts

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 13, 2010

Climate proofing infrastructure in Bangladesh: the incremental cost of limiting future inland monsoon flood damage

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This paper presents a detailed bottom-up methodology to estimate the adaptation cost to intensified floods in a changing climate and intends to shed light in climate negotiations as a prototype of adaptation cost to extreme weather events, asserting that investments in increased understanding of risk-mitigation options and in economic mobility would have especially high returns. It examines the potential cost of offsetting increased flooding risk from climate change, based on simulations from a more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 10, 2010

Climate change and education, Bangladesh

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This publication addresses physical and social vulnerability of Bangladesh in relation to climate change hazards, such as floods, cyclones and storm surges, tornadoes, riverbank erosion, drought and sea level rise; and their impact on education and schools reconstruction, as well as textbooks and other materials supply.It suggests some adaptation measures, including: (i) hazard specific school design and construction; (ii) existing schools retrofitting to withstand further hazards; (iii) more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 07, 2010

Incheon declaration on disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific 2010

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This declaration, made by the Heads of Governments, the Ministers, and the Heads of Delegations of the countries of Asia and the Pacific, at the Fourth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) in Incheon, Republic of Korea, on 25-28 October 2010, calls for (i) raising awareness and building capacity for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA); (ii) developing and sharing information, technology, sound practices, and lessons learned in climate more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 07, 2010

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