[DIPECHO Network] GRIP Newsletter: First Issue

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Forwarding the newsletter of Global Risk Identification Programme (GRIP). Please find the details below.

 

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From: gripnewsletter-request at gripweb.org [mailto:gripnewsletter-request at gripweb.org] On Behalf Of GRIP Mailing list
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:10 PM
To: gripnewsletter at gripweb.org
Subject: GRIP Newsletter: First Issue

 

Dear All, 

Please find the first issue of the Global Risk Identification Programme (GRIP)’s Newsletter in the attachment. 
Please download the issue from the link below:
http://tinyurl.com/4vanox 

The goal of GRIP is to reduce natural hazard-related losses in high-risk areas to promote sustainable development. Its objectives are an improved evidence base for disaster risk management and the increased adoption of disaster risk management as an alternative to over-reliance on emergency management. In this way, GRIP aims to assist development decision-making at all levels by facilitating the appropriate incorporation of disaster risk considerations. 

GRIP is the Official Thematic Platform for the implementation of the HFA’s Priority Action 2: Risk Assessment. GRIP’s work focuses in three main activities: a) Capacity building and support for risk assessment at all levels (global, regional, national, sub-national, community), b) Generation of basic risk information and baselines for Disaster Risk Reduction through, for example, the implementation of national risk assessments and the systematic analysis of past disasters, and c) Monitoring and reporting to identify actual progress (or lack of it) in disaster risk reduction and evaluate the effectiveness of existing Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies. For more information about GRIP, please go to: www.gripweb.org. 

This newsletter is planned to be published quarterly. We will highlight all the important GRIP activities, news, and events in the newsletter. Also, GRIP’s newsletter will inform and provide visibility to risk assessment endeavors (implemented not necessarily under GRIP) that share the program’s goals and objectives. If you wish to unsubscribe, please mail to mailinglist at gripweb.org with subject "unsubscribe". If you wish to continue receiving the newsletter, please mail to mailinglist at gripweb.org with subject "subscribe" (This will help us build a proper GRIP mailing list). If you think someone else might be interested in receiving the newsletter, please mail to mailinglist at gripweb.org with subject "add to list" and give their email address so that they would be added to the mailing list. 

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. 

Sincerely yours, 

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Carlos Villacis, Ph.D., MPA 
Global Risk Identification Programme (GRIP) Coordinator 
Disaster Reduction and Recovery Unit 
Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery 
UNDP 
Tel: (41 22) 917 8399 
Fax: (41 22) 917 8060 
Email: carlos.villacis at undp.org 
Web: www.gripweb.org 
Mail: Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10 
Office: 11-13 Chemin des Anémones, Châtelaine, CH-1219, Geneva, Switzerland