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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
Argentina: Jornadas sobre 'Sociedad, comunicación y riesgos'
26 May 2013, Santa Fe Ciudad, Argentina - gov
'La comunicación para la reducción de riesgos de desastres debe basarse en el valor del intercambio de conocimiento, más que en difundir la información. Tenemos que acortar la brecha que existe entre el conocimiento científico y técnico y el conocimiento de la comunidad, convirtiendo el primer lenguaje en uno coloquial, que la población pueda comprender,' dijó Margarita Villalobos de UNISDR...
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
- Community based disaster risk reduction online course07 May - 01 Jul 2013, Online
- Global platform for disaster risk reduction 2013: Fourth session19-23 May 2013, Switzerland (Geneva)
- Community managed disaster risk reduction20-23 May 2013, South Sudan (Juba)
- Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in disaster risk management and development studiesCDRM&DS, Nigeria (Minna)
- Masters in disaster risk management and development studiesCDRM&DS, Nigeria (Minna)
- Disaster management and humanitarian assistance summer instituteUH Mānoa, United States of America (Manoa, Hawaii)
UNICEF DRR contingency planning toolkit for implementing partners: action matrix2012, UNICEF
Manual de ingenieria naturalistica2012, Plan Intl; SNGR, Ecuador - gov; UNDP Ecuador
- Our work is never over2012, PPRD South
- International Day for Disaster Reduction in Rwanda2012, MIDIMAR, Rwanda - gov
- Big river rising: Interactive exploration of flooding in the Philippines2012, CA
- Public health specialistSaudi Arabia (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), ADPC
- Project officer - DRR/CCA-mainstreaming specialistThailand (Bangkok), ADPC
- Disaster risk management specialistPhilippines (Manila), ADB
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
- Blog: Disaster planning and emergency management (Italy)
- British Geological Survey: earthquakes
- Business partnerships with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- Caribbean Risk Management Initiative
- China Risk Net - 中国风险网
- CRID: Herramientas para preparativos y desastres
- Crisis management web resources
- 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
- eCAPRA: Probabilistic risk assessment
- 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: Introduction to damage, loss and needs assessment self-paced course
- 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)
- National Disaster Management Authority of India guidelines: multiple hazards, capacity development, information and risk management
- 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
- Plataforma regional de información y comunicación para la gestión integral de riesgos
- PLOS Currents: Disasters
- Rede social Arca de Noé (in Portuguese)
- Relief and Resettlement Department Portal, Myanmar
- 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)
- World Bank: Urban development in Latin America and the Caribbean - DRM resources
- Xarokopeio University: disasters.gr (Greece)
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.