Small Island Developing States

Document submitted to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for presentation to the Conference of Parties.

This report explores the safety and preparedness level of education infrastructure and knowledge, in the areas of disaster preparedness, for adaptation and the future mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction and disaster management into curriculum and

The annual address given by the Prime Minister at the start of the hurricane season on the state of disaster management in St. Vincent and the Grenadines calls for safer schools and recovery programmes...

Technical memorandum of PWRI no. 4114:

This is the report of the training course activities and its achievement. This project has been conducted to make good use of Japanese experience of tsunami countermeasures for developing countries.

The course

In 2005, the Government, recognising that the current Priorities and Action Agenda (PAA) does not fully address disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster management (DM) issues and challenges, requested the SOPAC/PIFS/UNDP/World Bank Partnership to help

This user-friendly handbook provides an overview of several 'natural' disasters that occurred in the world in 2007, and contains good practices submitted by ADRC member countries to share knowledge among relevant stakeholders in order to contribute to

This report provides a review of the economics of climate change in the Southeast Asian region. It confirms that the region is highly vulnerable to climate change and demonstrates that a wide range of adaptation measures are already being applied.

The

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is strengthening its preparedness and response capacities in the event of a major earthquake...