National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Cameroon, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as earthquake, flood and release of toxic gas.
EVALUATION DE L’ETAT DU BARRAGE, DES DIGUES, DU RESERVOIR ET DES STRUCTURES HYDRAULIQUES DU SYSTEME DE MAGA-LOGONE-VRICK
This post-disaster needs assessment presents the damage caused by the 2012 floods in Cameroon and identifies and offers preliminary recommendations and short-and long-term recovery measures.

This map depicts the countries participating in, and location of National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction, of the ECHO-funded UNISDR media trainings on disaster risk reduction in 2010-2011.

The media have an important role to play in creating

This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in Middle Africa. For the purpose of this review, Middle Africa is defined as including Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic

This issue reports on the general results and improvements achieved during the past months of the Mitigate and Assess risk from Volcanic Impact on Terrain and human Activities (MIA VITA) project, at Mount Cameroon and Fogo area. MIA-VITA european project

This inventory is an attempt to pull together the threads and to identify what does and what does not work in relation to legal, institutional and planning frameworks for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. It aims to further support the

This report highlights the ways UNICEF is working to foster children's resilience in the face of tragedy, and their capacity to hope for – and build – a better future at the individual, community and institutional levels. The first chapter especially

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