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Cadre global de gestion des risques de catastrophes
Learning Activity ID: URB09-00-676
Dates: 26 Oct 2009 to 29 Nov 2009
Location: World Wide
Learning Activity Description:
Ce cours répond à des questions telles que « Pourquoi les catastrophes sont elles un problème pour le développement ? » et « Quelles sont les éléments d’une gestion exhaustive des risques de catastrophes ? » Le cours examine les arrangements institutionnels More Information »
Dates: 26 Oct 2009 to 29 Nov 2009
Location: World Wide
Learning Activity Description:
Ce cours répond à des questions telles que « Pourquoi les catastrophes sont elles un problème pour le développement ? » et « Quelles sont les éléments d’une gestion exhaustive des risques de catastrophes ? » Le cours examine les arrangements institutionnels More Information »
Earthquake Risk Mitigation Online Course
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-111
Dates: 09 Nov 2009 to 06 Dec 2009
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
Earthquakes are a major source of death and devastation, but with appropriate risk reduction measures the destructions can be avoided. In order to reduce earthquake risk it is important to understand how earthquakes cause destruction, and how such destruction More Information »
Dates: 09 Nov 2009 to 06 Dec 2009
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
Earthquakes are a major source of death and devastation, but with appropriate risk reduction measures the destructions can be avoided. In order to reduce earthquake risk it is important to understand how earthquakes cause destruction, and how such destruction More Information »
Earthquake Risk Mitigation Online Course
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-112
Dates: 15 Feb 2010 to 14 Mar 2010
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
Earthquakes are a major source of death and devastation, but with appropriate risk reduction measures the destructions can be avoided. In order to reduce earthquake risk it is important to understand how earthquakes cause destruction, and how such destruction More Information »
Dates: 15 Feb 2010 to 14 Mar 2010
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
Earthquakes are a major source of death and devastation, but with appropriate risk reduction measures the destructions can be avoided. In order to reduce earthquake risk it is important to understand how earthquakes cause destruction, and how such destruction More Information »
Executive Leadership Training for Tiger Range Countries, Cohort 1
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-141
Dates: 01 Feb 2010 to 05 Feb 2010
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
Learning Activity Description:
Peer-to-peer exchange and benchmarking. Thirty senior policy-makers, key opinion shapers and decision-makers at civil society and private organizations from Tiger Range Countries will undergo capacity enhancement along the following conservation leadership More Information »
Dates: 01 Feb 2010 to 05 Feb 2010
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
Learning Activity Description:
Peer-to-peer exchange and benchmarking. Thirty senior policy-makers, key opinion shapers and decision-makers at civil society and private organizations from Tiger Range Countries will undergo capacity enhancement along the following conservation leadership More Information »
Executive Leadership Training for Tiger Range Countries, Cohort 2
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-142
Dates: 05 Apr 2010 to 09 Apr 2010
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
Learning Activity Description:
Peer-to-peer exchange and benchmarking. Thirty senior policy-makers, key opinion shapers and decision-makers at civil society and private organizations from Tiger Range Countries will undergo capacity enhancement along the following conservation leadership More Information »
Dates: 05 Apr 2010 to 09 Apr 2010
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
Learning Activity Description:
Peer-to-peer exchange and benchmarking. Thirty senior policy-makers, key opinion shapers and decision-makers at civil society and private organizations from Tiger Range Countries will undergo capacity enhancement along the following conservation leadership More Information »
Financial Strategies for Managing the Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters, Online Course : Philippines
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-119
Dates: 16 Nov 2009 to 13 Dec 2009
Location: Philippines
Learning Activity Description:
Global economic losses due to natural disasters are growing. Both direct and insured losses have increased at a faster rate than the number of events, revealing that the same hazard on average is causing larger damages. If disaster impacts are not anticipated More Information »
Dates: 16 Nov 2009 to 13 Dec 2009
Location: Philippines
Learning Activity Description:
Global economic losses due to natural disasters are growing. Both direct and insured losses have increased at a faster rate than the number of events, revealing that the same hazard on average is causing larger damages. If disaster impacts are not anticipated More Information »
NIDM-WBI Community Based Disaster Risk Management Course
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-105
Dates: 04 Jan 2010 to 31 Jan 2010
Location: New Delhi, India
Learning Activity Description:
This course is a joint offering of National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi and World Bank Institute, Washington. The human causes of natural disasters find greater recognition today in the theory and practice of disaster management, and More Information »
Dates: 04 Jan 2010 to 31 Jan 2010
Location: New Delhi, India
Learning Activity Description:
This course is a joint offering of National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi and World Bank Institute, Washington. The human causes of natural disasters find greater recognition today in the theory and practice of disaster management, and More Information »
NIDM-WBI Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Framework On-line Course
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-099
Dates: 14 Dec 2009 to 24 Jan 2010
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
This course addresses basic questions such as “why are disasters a development issue?” and “what are the components of comprehensive disaster risk management?” The course reviews the institutional arrangements and financing mechanisms of disaster management More Information »
Dates: 14 Dec 2009 to 24 Jan 2010
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
This course addresses basic questions such as “why are disasters a development issue?” and “what are the components of comprehensive disaster risk management?” The course reviews the institutional arrangements and financing mechanisms of disaster management More Information »
NIDM-WBI Safe Cities On-line Course
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-107
Dates: 01 Feb 2010 to 28 Feb 2010
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
By 2010, an estimated 50% of the population of developing countries will be living in cities and eight out of ten largest cities of the World will be in developing countries. Over three quarters of those cities are exposed to at least one natural hazard. More Information »
Dates: 01 Feb 2010 to 28 Feb 2010
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
By 2010, an estimated 50% of the population of developing countries will be living in cities and eight out of ten largest cities of the World will be in developing countries. Over three quarters of those cities are exposed to at least one natural hazard. More Information »
Risk Sensitive Land Use Planning Online Course
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-113
Dates: 07 Dec 2009 to 03 Jan 2010
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
Urban population is expected to reach 5 billion by 2030. In the new urban millennium, natural and human made disasters are likely to have their greatest impact in cities where half of humanity is expected to reside. Land use planning presents a tool More Information »
Dates: 07 Dec 2009 to 03 Jan 2010
Location: India
Learning Activity Description:
Urban population is expected to reach 5 billion by 2030. In the new urban millennium, natural and human made disasters are likely to have their greatest impact in cities where half of humanity is expected to reside. Land use planning presents a tool More Information »
Training of Trainors, Part 1
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-143
Dates: 18 Feb 2010 to 31 Mar 2010
Location: Bangalore, India
Learning Activity Description:
Course Content and Partnership Development. Trainers from regional and national training institutions will adapt and implement Tiger Conservation and Development courses and coalition building aimed at producing critical mass of tiger conservation More Information »
Dates: 18 Feb 2010 to 31 Mar 2010
Location: Bangalore, India
Learning Activity Description:
Course Content and Partnership Development. Trainers from regional and national training institutions will adapt and implement Tiger Conservation and Development courses and coalition building aimed at producing critical mass of tiger conservation More Information »
Training of Trainors, Part 2
Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-144
Dates: 01 Jun 2010 to 15 Jun 2010
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
Learning Activity Description:
Course Content and Partnership Development. Trainors from regional and national training institutions will adapt and implement Tiger Conservation and Development courses and coalition building aimed at producing critical mass of tiger conservations More Information »
Dates: 01 Jun 2010 to 15 Jun 2010
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
Learning Activity Description:
Course Content and Partnership Development. Trainors from regional and national training institutions will adapt and implement Tiger Conservation and Development courses and coalition building aimed at producing critical mass of tiger conservations More Information »