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Economics of DRR

Τhis theme covers economic analysis supporting risk-informed investments and better investment planning and financing strategies for disaster risk reduction. It also adresses post-event economic loss and impact assessments, cost benefit analysis and other DRR investment appraisal techniques, ex-ante economic impact assessments.

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Haiti: World Vision concerned about 'secondary disaster' with hurricane season approaching

World Vision is calling on the Government of Haiti and the international community to treat disaster risk reduction (DRR) as a critical component of the country’s long-term recovery and reconstruction plans, with a minimum of 10% of total humanitarian funding made available for DRR interventions...
World Vision International
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Deals on adaptation, technology, forests possible at Cancun: European climate chief

'Delivering short-term "fast track" financing to help the most vulnerable developing nations adapt to and prepare for climate change will be crucial at Cancun' said Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Change, in a Reuters AlertNet report...
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
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Jamaica: USD 2.3 million contract for community risk reduction project

An agreement for a US$2.3 million grant for a community-based landslide risk reduction project in Jamaica was signed last week between the Government of Jamaica, the World Bank and the Japanese Social Development Fund (JSDF)...
Jamaica Information Service
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USA: California disaster - FEMA calls for 'improved capability to prepare'

FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards...
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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OECS receives funds for new project on disaster risk management

The OECS Secretariat has secured US$ 400,000 from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and US$90,000 from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to begin a new project focused on mainstreaming disaster risk management in OECS Member States...
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
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IDRC Davos 2010: Publication launch of 'Microsurance - an innovative tool for risk and disaster management'

The book both investigates the linkage between disaster risk reduction and Microinsurance and addresses possible combinations of loans, savings and insurance schemes for low-income people to provide appropriate solutions for at least partial risk reduction, and for faster recovery after a disaster...
Global Risk Forum
Documents and publications

The impact of climate change on pastoral societies of Somaliland

This report documents the impact of climate change on pastoral livelihoods in the two districts of Salaxley and Balli-Gubadle in the semi-arid Haud region of Somaliland. It emphasizes the need to develop scenarios for the impact of climate change on

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'Somaliland needs own plan for climate change'

The human and environmental disruption wreaked by drought in Somaliland, where more than 60 percent of people raise livestock for a living, means the self-declared, but barely recognized, independent state should draw up its own plan for climate change adaptation, according to a new report...
The New Humanitarian
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