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The IDB has expanded its longstanding partnership with the Government of Japan through a partnership amendment signed with the MOF and a new MOC with the JICA.

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“Water and Climate Leaders” aim to set and pursue an integrated global Water and Climate Agenda in support of national mitigation and adaptation actions.

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Statement by Mami Mizutori, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction for International Women’s Day Today is a day to celebrate women who have truly made a difference in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic which has

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The virus can probably never be globally eradicated, because of its presence in many animals (including cats and dogs) and because of incomplete vaccine coverage.

International Science Council (ISC)
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M. Shah Alam Khan, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
In this interview, Professor M. Shah Alam Khan explains how amphibious housing can help populations in Bangladesh cope with reoccurring floods.
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By Mami Mizutori Climate-vulnerable nations know all too well that action on the climate emergency is just as important as a successful and affordable vaccine against COVID-19. This year’s U.N. climate talks may have been postponed, but no one can take

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MESSAGE OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR WORLD TSUNAMI AWARENESS DAY, 5 NOVEMBER We live in a multi-hazard world where risk is systemic and embedded in the very fabric of human development. Currently we are struggling with what some describe as a tsunami

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Nothing undermines development more than disasters. The lack of strategies and planning when faced with an event of natural, human or biological origin could mean inevitable decline in a society’s efforts to promote development and growth. It is therefore

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