Capacity development

The international research programme is designed to address the gaps in the knowledge and methods that are preventing the effective application of science to averting disasters and reducing risk...

Last week, World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick announced additional emergency grants to Haiti to support recovery and rebuilding, and strengthen its institutional capacity to cope with natural disasters...

The UN Secretary-General reflects on the lessons learned and calls for doing 'more to turn commitments on paper into deeds that can keep the next major disaster from taking so many lives'...

UN/ISDR Africa educational series, vol. 1, issue 4

The present booklet seeks to help school teachers and students understand how land becomes degraded, what to do about it, and the link between good use of land, disaster risk reduction and sustainable

The ‘Tashkent Disaster Risk Reduction Project’ will train 70,000 people from 11 different urban neighbourhoods in disaster awareness, support preparedness and mitigation activities by the end of the project....

For small developing countries like Jamaica and most other Caribbean islands the cost of repairs after natural disasters, which have been compounded by climate change, can negatively impact development....

This report documents the proceedings from a three-day global meeting on the topic 'Rethinking Capacity Development for Disaster Risk Reduction: Action 2005-2015'. The report effectively chronicles the Future Search methodology and process that was

An NGO-run project to help alleviate vulnerabilities caused by natural calamities has been judged as the most effective of its kind in the storm-prone coastal province of Quang Ngai after three years of operation....