Honduras

With support from ProVention, IFRC and OAS developed a set of 6 non-technical manuals aimed at promoting community-based disaster risk reduction activities in the following fields:

1. School Maintenance
2. Disaster Mitigation of Rural Water Supplies

This collection of papers was written by different experts following the impact of Hurricane Mitch in Central America in October 1998. From regional and community perspectives, the authors describe how communities were organized, how they dealt with

Twenty eight community leaders from Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras – primarily grassroots women - together with a large number of local residents gathered in Guadalupe to prepare a community map of this small hurricane prone coastal town in Honduras

In Spanish:

El objetivo central de DIPECHO, bajo un marco regional, es enfocarse en la población más vulnerable en las principales áreas expuestas a desastres en el mundo y con bajas capacidades de respuesta. Su principal apuesta es la de la “preparación”

This publication highlights roles that grassroots women are playing in building resilient communities and insights emerging from resilience building efforts led by grassroots women in Peru, Jamaica, Honduras, Turkey, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India.

It

This publication seeks to highlight initiatives that have successfully linked poverty reduction and disaster risk reduction in various parts of the world. It features several projects and initiatives that show how DRR can be integrated into poverty

The purpose of this report is to describe the methodology developed to estimate the 50-year flood discharge for areas throughout Honduras and map the extent and depth of flooding. The report provides regional data to facilitate flood-hazard mapping in

Intense rainfall from 1998 Hurricane Mitch, triggered in excess of 500,000 landslides, particularly debris flows, throughout the country. Landslides damaged an estimated 70% of the road network in Honduras. Numbers of fatalities due to landslides are not