Palestine, State of

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This report focuses on the water crisis in the Gaza Strip, a semiarid region which has been suffering from a severe and exponentially deteriorating water crisis for decades and is highly dependent on the coastal aquifer as its sole source of fresh water

This report presents the main findings of the participatory risk assessment in the Gaza Strip. The publication includes a detailed hazard identification and municipality mapping, a community hazard mapping, a community vulnerability assessment and a

This technical summary of the Arab Sustainable Development Report aims to provide an abridged overview of key points and recommendations drawn from the full report, focusing on: (i) the science-policy interface and evidence-based policy in the Arab region

This brief gives an overview of the disaster trends and challenges across the Arab region, with a special emphasis on infrastructure, informal settlements, climate change, and cross-cutting issues such as governance, inclusiveness, decentralization and

This report aims to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of disasters in the Arab states. The study provides an assessment, interpretation and visualization of ten national disaster loss databases from the region (i.e.: Comoros, Djibouti

The Palestinian Civil Defense Law No. 3, dated 1998, states the responsibility of the civil defense and official authorities in the Palestinian Authority to face disasters.

The report presents the main findings from case studies about resilience assessments that were carried out in five countries through workshops: El Salvador, Bolivia, Haiti, Palestine, and Cambodia.

This paper synthesizes the consultations held at the regional, national and local levels throughout the Arab region on the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction, the successor of the Hyogo Framework for Action. This report include the outcomes

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