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Disaster risk reduction related documents from the ISDR partnership and the disaster risk reduction (DRR) community.

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Title	Source	Publication Date
Index insurance and climate risk: prospects for development and disaster management	IRI	2009
Gestión de riesgos ambientales urbanos	FLACSO; LA RED	1999
Desastres urbanos: una visión global	FLACSO	2000
Managing urban disaster risk: analysis and adaptation frameworks for integrated settlement development programming for the urban poor	Lund University	2007
Nicaragua: tsunami warning system, a component of sustainable tourism promotion	GIZ, Germany - gov; BMZ, Germany - gov	2008
Disaster risk reduction: precondition for achieving sustainable development	WHH	2009
Peru: local capacity development for disaster risk management	GIZ, Germany - gov; BMZ, Germany - gov	2008
Local disaster risk reduction: lessons from the Andes	CAN; CAPRADE; EC	2009
People pay attention! COOPI is coming with prevention!	COOPI; ECHO	2008
Preparing for disaster saves lives	ECHO	2008
Our climate, our children, our responsibility: the implications of climate change for the world’s children	UNICEF	2008
Recommendations of national platforms to the chair and participants of the second session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (Geneva, 16-19 June 2009)	National Platform representatives at pre-session event, 2009 Global Platform	2009
Towards a global climate agreement	ClimateWorks	2009
Multi-purpose flood protection: a rural-urban win-win	IISD	2009
Haiti and the Dominican Republic: reconstruction and disaster management in the border region	GIZ, Germany - gov; BMZ, Germany - gov	2007
World disasters report: focus on early warning, early action	IFRC	2009
En-Gendering HFA: Grassroots Women's Strategies for Implementing the HFA	GROOTS; Huairou Commission	2009
GFDRR Track 1, building global and regional partnership: giving risk reduction a regional dimension	GFDRR; UNISDR; WB	2009
Report on the workshop 'Preparing for and adapting to climate change in the Caribbean'	DoE, Cayman Islands - gov; Tyndall Ctr for Climate Change Res	2005
México, DF: el desastre que viene	Bermúdez, Guillermo; García, Martha Elena	2009
Beijing agenda for global action on gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction	The participants from 50 countries, UN agencies and Civil Societies at the International Conference on Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction held at Beijing, China from 20-22 April 2009	2009
Operational users guide for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS)	IOC	2009
California’s emergency preparedness efforts for culturally diverse communities: status, challenges and directions for the future	Drexel SPH	2009
Gender mainstreaming in emergency management: opportunities for building community resilience in Canada	PHAC, Canada - gov	2008
Disaster risk management: contributions by German Development Cooperation	BMZ, Germany - gov	2008
Nuevo convenio constitutivo del centro de coordinación para la prevención de los desastres naturales en América Central (CEPREDENAC)	CEPREDENAC; Spain - gov	2007
Position paper responding to climate change in the Caribbean Development Bank and its borrowing member countries	CDB	2008
Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in least developed countries	IIED	2003
Enhancing city-to-city sharing and social participation in disaster risk reduction	EMI	2008
Review of ISDR secretariat’s regional offices: 9-21st August 2004	DFID, United Kingdom - gov; UNISDR AF; UNISDR - AM	2005
Accountability and non-discrimination in flood risk management, investigating the potential of a rights-based approach: Honduras case study	CA; ODI	2008
Elementos conceptuales para la prevención y reducción de daños originados por amenazas socionaturales	GIZ, Germany - gov; ECLAC	2005
Diagnóstico de la situación subregional andina sobre la prevención y respuesta a emergencias por productos químicos peligrosos y materiales radioactivos	CAPRADE; EC	2008
Plan subregional Andino para la prevención y respuesta a emergencias por productos químicos peligrosos y materiales radiactivos	CAPRADE; EC	2008
IDB: country strategy with Nicaragua 2008-2012	IDB	2008
Disaster risk reduction and the International Federation	IFRC	2006
Total disaster risk management: good practices 2005	ADRC	2005
Comprehensive disaster management (CDM) strategy and programme framework 2007-2012	CDEMA	2006
Latin America@Risk: a Global Risk Network briefing	WEF	2007
Natural security: protected areas and hazard mitigation, arguments for protection	WWF	2008
Requisitos generales de diseño y construcción	Nicaragua - gov; SINAPRED, Nicaragua - gov; DRM	2005
New Orleans affordable housing assessment: lessons learned	Mercy Corps	2007
Disaster reduction in the Americas: ISDR informs, issue 15, 2008	UNISDR - AM	2008
Global mainstreaming initiative for disaster risk reduction	UNDP	2007
Safe schools in safe territories	CECC; ECHO; UNICEF; UNISDR - AM	2008
Microfinance and disasters: preparing for the worst	WB	2008
Donor proposal on disaster risk reduction and recovery 2009-2010	UNDP	2008
From Caribbean hurricanes to Indian floods: experience and lessons learned for disaster risk reduction	ActionAid - UK; RGS	2006
Green jobs: improving the climate for gender equality too!	ILO	2008
From disaster response to prevention: companion paper to the disaster risk management policy	IDB	2007