Advocacy & Media

28 June 2022

Cognitive biases: This is how we can make better decisions about risk

Why is it that individuals and governments still do not invest enough in disaster risk reduction (DRR), despite experience and evidence of its value?

Rajib Shaw - Professor at Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan - has championed multi-hazard community-based disaster risk reduction in six Asian countries, and his work has led to the establishment of village level community-based working groups.

Press Releases

26 May 2022

2022 Sasakawa Award winners promote inclusion and protection of vulnerable people

Three individuals – Myriam Urzúa Venegas, Rajib Shaw and Glenn Suerte Felipe Banaguas – and three organizations – the Pacific Disaster Center, Save the Children Philippines, and SEEDS – are the six laureates of the 2022 United Nations Sasakawa Award.

Documents and publications

Working papers

Prospects and challenges of transdisciplinary research approaches for managing and communicating climate-related risks

This study discusses insights, lessons, opportunities and challenges in the development and implementation of stakeholder focused, transdisciplinary research approaches in the context of managing and communicating climate-related risks more effectively.

29 Mar 2022

Videos: Checklist on Disaster Displacement

These educational videos are meant to summarize the key actions governments and stakeholders can take to reduce disaster displacement. The videos, available in English, Tagalog, Bahasa, and Tetum.

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13 December 2021

Incheon City is the first Resilience Hub in Asia-Pacific

On 23 November 2021, Incheon Metropolitan City became the first city in the Asia-Pacific region to be recognized as a Resilience Hub under the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative.

Documents and publications

UNDRR ROAMC: IDDRR report

#OnlyTogether #DRRday National and local disaster risk reduction strategies for disaster risk reduction must be in place by the end of this year.

Panelists of World Tsunami Awareness Day Pacific Webinar

Updates

5 November 2021

International Cooperation for Tsunami Warning and Mitigation in the Pacific

International collaboration must be made stronger to make communities resilient to tsunamis

Updates

28 October 2021

Journalists told "No such thing as a natural disaster"

Journalists from across the Americas region were urged to spread the word that natural hazards such as earthquakes and tornadoes may be impossible to stop but that there is nothing inevitable about the loss of life and economic damage they inflict.

3 November

Meetings and conferences