The Government's response has been to establish crisis centers for women (see para 16 above).

The services were intended to respond to slow onset disasters such as famine and desertification, as well as to sudden emergencies such as tsunamis, earthquakes and floods.

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Crisis prevention and recovery

Prevention of financial crises

Resolution of financial crises

The services are intended to respond to slow onset disasters such as famine and desertification, as well as to sudden emergencies such as tsunamis, earthquakes and floods. ZKI is a service of the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of DLR.

Central government has the authority to coordinate the response through the National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC), operated by the Ministry of Civil Defence Emergency Management (MCDEM).

Crisis mapping in one form or another has been used in many crises since then.

(d) Response to and management of crises

Learning from Crises

Crisis management and negotiation

Crisis prevention and recovery

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Among good practices documented was the one stop crisis centre in Thailand, which offered support to meet immediate, medium term and long term needs of survivors of domestic violence.

Crises were no longer moderate.

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Political crises followed one after the other.

Crisis prevention and recovery

Indeed, lending of last resort at the national level is essentially conceived as a tool for crisis prevention, particularly to avoid systemic crises.

Heme Arginate (NormoSang) is used during crises but also in preventive treatment to avoid crises, one treatment every 10 days.

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(c) Crises and post conflict situations

The need to prevent crises from developing.

This is a very reactive, crisis driven system.

In conjunction with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Charles Lane is in Paraguay blogging at The Soybean Wars about the human, political, and environmental impact of the soybean industry.

Time and again, financial crises have reflected the weaknesses of regulatory systems founded on the lessons learned from previous crises.

We have to invest in transformations capability, moving from crisis into innovation and the ability to rise after a crisis, and of course to adapt to unavoidable change.

In the Philippines, gender and development mainstreaming efforts saw the creation of the Davao Medical Center, which in turn set up the Women and Children Protection Unit, a one stop family crisis intervention centre that provides legal, psychiatric and medical services to its patients.

UNICEF notes however that the Department of Safety and Security is managing a project to consolidate crisis management within the United Nations system and that the operations centre will participate fully in that project.

The Operations Centre has been providing critical 24 hour communication of security, emergency and crisis information, and has served as a back up system for the United Nations Secretariat.

The simple truth is that the cost of preventing financial crises is much lower than the costs imposed by them after they erupt.

Indeed, strengthening Africans' capacity in conflict prevention in crisis situations and in crisis management must remain our main objective.

Crises need to be carefully managed.

PRINCETON Crises are a chance to learn.

Financial crises are almost comforting by comparison.

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The airports provide plans of action in case of emergency.

Complex crises and United Nations response.

How to strengthen crisis and emergency management capacities

Crisis centres are in place in virtually all oblasts.

We'll be back in a moment with more on the crisis.

This would reduce the probability of crises while putting in place mechanisms for cost sharing should they occur.