CityRAP é aplicada em Comoros
UN-Habitat e DiMSUR introduzem a metodologia da ferramenta CityRAP em Moroni 4 de maio 2017 –Cerca de 40 participantes da União dos Comoros foram treinados
Category: African News
L’outil City RAP est en phase d’exécution aux Comores
L’équipe de lONU-Habitat et du DiMSUR a délivré la première phase de la méthodologie CityRAP à Moroni en délivrant un cours intensif de 5 jours.
Climate change and mass migration
Source: INTEGRATED REGIONAL INFORMATION NETWORKS (IRIN) via Preventionweb When international leaders met in the Bangladeshi capital last month for ongoing discussions about a new global migration policy,
Sendai Framework at the local level
Session presents and discusses examples of DRR implementations in African cities 25 November 2016 – UNISDR and UN-Habitat jointly organized a session during the 6th
Capacitação em Praia, Cabo Verde
DiMSUR e ONU-Habitat estão em Praia treinando profissionais de Cabo Verde para o CityRAP Tool 18 de novembro 2016 – Trinta e cinco participantes cabo-verdianos
Gender, Resilience and Urbanization
Cities are where ideas change, where innovation occurs and where the status quo is challenged By David Thomas, Consultant UN-Habitat – Programme Division, Cross-Cutting Issues*
Tsunami aware tourism in the Seychelles
Tourism in coastal areas is at high risk from tsunamis in the Indian Ocean as was demonstrated by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami which claimed
DiMSUR is back to Addis Ababa
Lideta’s community is drafting its Resilience Framework for Action The local community and stakeholders from the sub-city of Lideta, in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), are currently working
Centuries-old African soil technique to combat climate change
The technique known as “African dark earths” transforms nutrient-poor rainforest soil into fertile farmland Via Thomson Reuters Foundation, by Kieran Guilbert Photo: Working in the field, Ghana.
Kenya close to ending drought crises
Droughts regularly decimate herds across Africa, forcing destitute families to abandon their nomadic lifestyle and settle in remote, dusty towns where they fall deeper into