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Disaster Risk Management
The systematic process of using administrative directives, organizations, and operational skills and capacities to implement strategies, policies and improved coping capacities in order to lessen the adverse impacts of hazards and the possibility of disaster; aims to avoid, lessen or transfer the adverse effects of hazards through activities and measures for prevention, mitigation and preparedness
Fiji declares 15 day state of disaster
3 Feb 2012, UNISDR
'These types of events are likely to continue to occur. ...In the interim, improved preparedness and early warning, two important elements of disaster risk reduction, will have to remain important and urgent priorities,' notes Angelika Planitz, UNISDR’s Sub-Regional Coordinator for the Pacific...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 1.1 [PDF, 136Kb]National policy and legal framework for disaster risk reduction exists with decentralised responsibilities and capacities at all levels
- Indicator 4.5 [PDF, 87Kb]Disaster risk reduction measures are integrated into post disaster recovery and rehabilitation processes
- Indicator 5.1 [PDF, 98Kb]Strong policy, technical and institutional capacities and mechanisms for disaster risk management, with a disaster risk reduction perspective are in place
- Indicator 5.2 [PDF, 99Kb]Disaster preparedness plans and contingency plans are in place at all administrative levels, and regular training drills and rehearsals are held to test and develop disaster response programmes.
- Indicator 5.4 [PDF, 88Kb]Procedures are in place to exchange relevant information during hazard events and disasters, and to undertake post-event reviews
- 41st Regional training course on disaster management23 Jan - 10 Feb 2012, Thailand (Bangkok)
- E-learning course on safe and resilient cities06-29 Feb 2012, United States of America (Washington D.C.)
- 3rd International conference on national safety and security: Resilient citizens in a resilient society06-07 Feb 2012, Netherlands (The Hague)
- Disaster management & humanitarian assistance certificateUH Mānoa, United States of America (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi)
- Postgraduate diploma in emergency managementMassey University
- Master of Disaster Management ProgrammeDU, Bangladesh (Dhaka)
Mainstreaming disability into disaster risk reduction: a training manual2009, ECHO; Handicap Intl
I'm prepared for emergencies: friends power series 12011, UNISDR ROAS; WHO - EMRO
Séisme en Haiti: bilan et regards sur deux ans d'action2012, CRF
Roadmap to disaster reduction and response2012, Global Relief
- Podcast: Comment vivre avec les risques naturels?2011, Radio France Internationale
- Walking to safety - raised parks for tsunami evacuation2011, GHI; Swiss Re
- Briefing on 'UNISDR - Mid-term review of the HFA and preparations for the third session of the Global Platform for DRR'2011, UN
- Area coordinatorPakistan (North Sindh, Kamkot), ACTED
- Head of technical servicesAustralia (Melbourne, Victoria), Save the Children AUS
- Disaster risk management senior specialistUnited States of America (Washington, DC), IDB
External Online Resources
- A GDRC special feature on environmental management and disaster risk reduction
- Action pour la protection des personnes et des biens en Afrique
- AfterShock-CEM
- British Geological Survey: earthquakes
- Business partnerships with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- Caribbean Risk Management Initiative
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- DKKV: Database of documentation on EU disaster preparedeness
- East Asia and Pacific: A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and strengthening DRM
- Eduriesgo (in spanish)
- FAO: Climate change and risk management
- France: Portail DICRIM - Document d'Information Communal sur les RIsques Majeurs (in French)
- GEOweb: District of North Vancouver, Canada's GIS website
- GFDRR: Safer homes, safer communities website
- Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- IAVS: plate-forme de ressources sur les changements climatiques en Afrique (in French)
- iDisaster 2.0: social media and emergency management
- India Environmental Portal: Climate change and natural disasters
- Institute for Business and Home Safety: disaster safety portal
- International Platform for Reducing Earthquake Diasters (IPRED)
- Knowledge sharing on disaster risk reduction
- Martinique: risques et nuisances (in French)
- OIKOS: interactive game and information on hazard impact, mechanism, mitigation and simulation (in many languages)
- Pakistan: Disaster Preparedness and Response Team (DPART-SAR) online resources portal
- Rede social Arca de Noé (in Portuguese)
- Sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region
- The gender and disaster sourcebook
- Towards a Safer World
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- USGS: Earthquake hazards program (USA)
Find or contribute curricular, extra-curricular and public awareness materials on disaster prevention and school safety for primary, secondary, vocational, community-based education and public awareness.
Officially declared national coordinating multi-sectoral and inter-disciplinary mechanisms for advocacy, coordination, analysis and advice on disaster risk reduction.