The ENPI funded PPRD South Programme supports international cooperation for the reinforcement of Civil Protection capacities between the European Union, the Mediterranean and Balkan Partner Countries under the umbrella of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). This Portal highlights Civil Protection issues at stake in the region, country profiles, events, national experiences, and cooperation initiatives.
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Without insurance coverage, post-disaster reparations come from government funds and ultimately must be borne by taxpayers
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
According to Swiss Re’s latest publication “Lessons from recent major earthquakes”, although economic losses caused by big earthquakes over the past two years – in Japan, Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, Turkey - are overwhelming (they overcome 212 billion €), highly earthquake-prone countries remain mostly underinsured.
Lucia Bevere, Senior Catastrophe Data Analyst at Swiss Re and co-author of the publication, says: “The insurance industry is playing a key role in post-disaster financing of the countries affected. While insurance cannot replace lost lives and livelihoods, appropriate insurance and other risk transfer mechanisms can greatly accelerate the recovery process.” However, the insurance industry’s contribution to the reconstruction effort differs dramatically from country to country, see Table 1.
The insurance industry will pay an estimated 80% of the overall cost of the February 2011 earthquake in New Zealand, but no more than 17% for the disastrous event in Japan in March 2011. Earthquake in...
Preventing threats turning into disasters in the Mediterranean Region
Friday, 13 January 2012
Assess risks, generate and communicate reliable predictions and effective warnings is the main focus of the workshop on Early Warning System for Civil Protection: from ear...
A Game for Lebanese Children: Learning how to Avoid Risks while Playing
Friday, 06 January 2012
“I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of this project and invite my fellow colleagues to double their efforts as we have been entrusted with the...
PPRD South Season's Greetings 2012
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
A happy new year and
peaceful 2012
from all of us at
PPRD South
National workshop in Tunisia outlines key steps for improving management of major crisis
Thursday, 15 December 2011
The recommendations issued from the national workshop organized in Tunis last 23-24 November by the PPRD South and the Tunisian Civil Protection set out a coherent roadma...
Reinforcing the Civil Protection for better serving democratic Tunisia
Friday, 18 November 2011
« A strengthened Civil Protection system for better managing emergencies and serving the population of democratic Tunisia » will be the main subject of the two-day worksh...
Video on PPRD South awareness raising in schools in Egypt
Friday, 11 November 2011
TV news broadcasted by the Egyptian state Channel One on the Third “Civil Protection School Day” organized at the El Quraan Primary School in Helwan, south of Cairo, by t...
UNISDR: Insurance necessary for resilience in earthquake zones
Wednesday, 09 November 2011
By Dizery Salim, UNISDR
Geneva
– Turkey’s 23 October quake revealed that only 9 per cent of building owners were insured despite it being mandatory in the country’s municip...
PPRD South workshop on “How to design, organise and manage an international civil protection exercise”
Friday, 28 October 2011
The importance of simulation exercises to enable specialized civil protection teams to work together more efficiently when real disaster strikes is the focus of the train...
Statistics indicate transport accidents as deadliest disasters in the Mediterranean in 2011
Sunday, 23 October 2011
A PPRD South study on the disasters recorded in the EM-DAT international database for the first six months of 2011 indicates that 73% of disasters occurred in the Mediter...
Six Jordanian and Palestinian experts visit the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
Monday, 12 September 2011
Six high level officers from the Jordanian and the Palestinian Civil Defense participate, from 26 to 30 September 2011, to an exchange of experts mission – organised by P...
What can we do to become more resilient?
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
What can communities do for themselves and how can they maintain basic functions and structures during a disaster and then recover after the event is the focus of the wor...
If you know how to measure resilience you can foster it
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
A recent article by the University of South Carolina on “Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions” provides an interesting methodology and a se...
The social component of resilience
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Social resilience encompasses community characteristics that make social groups either more vulnerable or more adaptable to hazards and disasters. Communities with higher...
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