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Costa Rica and Panama Prepare for Cross-Border Disaster-Displacement
Article written by IOM and published in IOM’s Environmental Migration Portal Newsletter Costa Rica and Panama have developed joint Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) concerning disaster displacement over their common border.…
Costa Rica y Panamá realizan primera simulación trasfronteriza
Press release in Spanish distributed to national media by the Costa Rican National Emergency Commission (Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias, CNE on 21 August 2017…
Disaster Displacement at the heart of the IGAD Regional Consultative Process on migration meeting in Nairobi
On 27-28 July 2017, the Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement participated in the 9th Regional Consultative Process on migration for the IGAD region (Intergovernmental Authority…
Reporting back – the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Cancun, Mexico
The Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) attended the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP17) on 22-26 May 2017 and organized a side event for addressing data and knowledge…
Panel urges all countries to improve data on why, where, when and how people move in the context of disasters
At the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Mexico where the international community reviews global progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for DRR, representatives from governments,…
Global Compact on Migration and Disaster Displacement: Prof. Walter Kaelin, addresses Member States
The preparatory process for the Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration has started in May and is led by the Ambassadors of Mexico and Switzerland in New York. On…
