India

This issue no. 10 addresses the grassroots women building resilience 3 years after the tsunami. This online newsletter highlights the practical action by women and communities towards the better future after the tsunami. It is published by Disaster Watch

This document contains the proceedings of a two-day workshop entitled “People, policy, and partnership for disaster resilient development” held on 3-4 November 2007 at India Habitat Center in New Delhi. The workshop focused on sharing lessons and building

This project report from UNESCO provides details of the work completed under the “Educational materials for education for natural disaster preparedness in Asia-Pacific in the context of education for sustainable development” project. Details of the

HPN Network Paper no. 49.

This study presents a cost benefit analysis of two disaster mitigation and preparedness(DMP) interventions in India. The objective of the study is to analyze the net benefits resulting from DMP to assess the cost-effectiveness

As un/natural disasters become ever-more frequent, aid dollars and development gains are being washed away. Catastrophe is no longer a brief dip on the curve of development but a danger to the process itself. The poorest of the poor are becoming more

This draft report has been prepared by Environmental Resources Management on behalf of the Department for International Development. The objective of the report is to present a high-level, desk-based assessment of the economic costs of disasters, and of

Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.