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Explore a comprehensive collection of publications, reports, and documents that focus on disaster risk and resilience.

These resources offer insights, best practices, and research aimed at mitigating the impact of disasters. Whether you're seeking the latest research, policy recommendations, or case studies, this library supports knowledge sharing and informed decision-making in building safer, more resilient communities.

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The Guide for Governments is a tool to assist national authorities in becoming familiar with humanitarian partners, the United Nations system, donors, and other agencies at various levels of aggregation and disaggregation and with their various roles and

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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This guide for Southern African Government Disaster Management Authorities/Agencies (NDMAs) and Disaster Managers on different mechanisms, international tools and services and needs assessments for disaster response and disaster response preparedness was

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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This guidance is to help the target audience ensure that all members of the community affected by disasters do not face unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

United States of America - government
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This publication examines the physical, material and psychological gender-differentiated impacts of weather and climate as well as the gender-specific needs for information and services on the basis of primary data emerging from 18 case studies.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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This report highlights how droughts and floods, insecurity and conflict are some of the causes that push millions of people into displacement every year, and are contributing to the increasing levels of internal displacement recorded across the continent

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
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This training toolkit has been developed by Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) with technical and financial assistance of UNICEF. GEAG has extensive working experience on urban climate and disaster risk resilience. The aim of the toolkit is to

National Institute of Disaster Management (India)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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The 1988 Spitak Earthquake claimed 25,000 lives and left 500,000 homeless in Armenia – in the three decades since, however, the country has taken some important steps toward disaster resilience.

This commemorative publication briefly explores the

World Bank, the
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This proposal provides a comprehensive overview of green infrastructure particularly related to stormwater and drainage and outlines how a more holistic and integrated approach to green infrastructure could be applied, based on a distillation of learnings

The Resilience Shift