A week-long training programme for National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteers in disaster management and mitigation activities began here on Monday.

By combining decentralised preparedness under the Disaster Management Act with innovative financing instruments, the state can reduce its dependence on emergency public spending ...

To build capacity in green disaster risk management and response, WWF-Pacific staff and partners, recently underwent a three day ‘Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit’(GRRT) training in Suva. To ...

FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

The National Office of Disaster Services (NODS) organized a Youth in Disaster Management training session targeting students in secondary schools, yesterday, as part of its week of activities for the ...

Under the patronage of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A district-level training programme for NSS volunteers commenced at the Maria Rani Centre, Sreekaryam, on ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA -- Disaster Management Systems, Inc., the nation's leading supplier of disaster preparedness solutions, announced the availability of a new tabletop training kit designed to ...

EMMITSBURG, Md. — What happened in Maryland won’t necessarily stay in Maryland. A Racine County delegation of more than 70 people attended a four-day disaster training last week at the Federal ...

Africa experiences a variety of natural disasters with floods and droughts documented as the most prevalent and impactful. Other significant hazards include landslides, storms, earthquakes, volcanic ...