Capacity development

Over 400 children participated in a two-day event aimed at raising awareness on disaster risk reduction...

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

Three years on from the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and staff are working with communities along the road to recovery...

This Study is part of DFID’s strategic effort to assess the significance of disaster risk in its development work. It aims to explore evidence on linkages between poverty alleviation, development and disaster risk reduction, and to establish why disaster

This study is intended to identify the linkages that need to be established between the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The aim of this review is to draw on existing initiatives to examine each of the eight

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.

This booklet is a glossary of terms and acronyms used in the tsunami literature. It describes the tsunami characteristics, general terms used in tsunami mitigation and generation as well as the terms in tsunami survey and measurement.

A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the