United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Mission

The United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Bosnia and Herzegovina is comprised of twelve UN Funds, Programmes and Specialized Agencies (FAO, ILO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNEP, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNODC, UNV, UN Women, WHO), the Bretton Woods Institutions (World Bank, IMF), ICTY and IOM. The work of the UNCT is being coordinated through the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator and framed within the One UN Programme for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2015-2019 representing the strategic programmatic and financial basis for the development partnership between the United Nations and the country.

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allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

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Hazards

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News

12 October 2021

Schools in BiH act to establish safe school environments for a more effective response to emergencies

The goal of the “Safe School Environment” model is to assist schools in BiH in providing a better response to natural and other disasters, reducing or completely avoiding their negative effects.

Meetings and conferences

In person

13 October 2016

Sarajevo

International Day For Disaster Reduction - DRR Knowledge Fair in BiH

Introduction The UN in Bosnia and Herzegovina jointly with the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina and with support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Bosnia and Herzegovina will mark the International Day for Disaster Redu

News

15 March 2016

Making the case for disaster risk reduction investment with hazard maps

Maps are important tools to inform decision-making. By giving us an indication of economic resilience, GDP-based exposure maps to hazards have the potential to convince governments and development practitioners to invest in DRR before risk turns into emergencies.

Publication

11 March 2016

Bosnia Herzegovina GDP exposure to floods

This map shows the relative flood risk and the exposed annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to flood risk as a ratio of the total GDP for each municipality.

Publication

11 March 2016

Bosnia Herzegovina GDP exposure to earthquakes

This map shows the relative earthquake risk and the exposed annual GDP to earthquake risk as a ratio of the total GDP for each of the 143 municipalities in Bosnia Herzegovina.

Publication

4 March 2016

Bosnia Herzegovina population exposure to earthquakes

This map shows the relative earthquake risk and the population exposed to earthquake risk as a ratio of the total population across municipalities in Bosnia Herzegovina.

Publication

4 March 2016

Bosnia Herzegovina population exposure to floods

This map shows the relative flood risk and the population exposed to flood risk as a ratio of the total population across municipalities in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Publication

26 February 2016

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Fire hazard map

This fire hazard map is based on analysis of fire events 2001-2014. The vector data shows fire events at the GPS coordinate level.