Disaster risk management

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses.

Latest Disaster risk management additions in the Knowledge Base

Cover and source: Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
This resource offers an overview of Cambodia's people, geography, and economy and details past disaster responses in addition to the country’s disaster risk reduction policies.
Cover and source: European Commission
This report provides an overview of the progress in implementing article 6 of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and it identifies a number of complementary actions and recommendations that are needed to achieve the Union disaster resilience goals.
A family observes the aftermath of flooding on the banks of the Danube
The European Commission has today published a Communication on managing climate risks in Europe. It sets out how the EU and its Member States can better anticipate, understand, and address growing climate risks.
European Commission
Cover and source: European Commission
The Communication on managing climate risks in Europe sets out how the EU and its Member States can better anticipate, understand, and address growing climate risks.
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The Sendai GAP aims accelerate progress towards the mutually reinforcing goals of gender equality and the prevention and reduction of disaster risk by ensuring DRR efforts are gender-responsive, and promote and support women’s empowerment and leadership
Cover and source: World Bank
This briefing note presents summary findings from the crisis preparedness gap analysis (CPGA) in Nepal. The CPGA provides a shock-agnostic assessment of Nepal’s capacity to deal with crisis events.
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The study explored the World Food Programme (WFP) programming in Indonesia and the Philippines, including WFP’s advisory, technical assistance and service provision roles to government and partners and informed the development of this guide.
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The 4th edition of ARMOR underlines the importance of strengthening sustainable disaster resilience in Southeast Asia, and offers suggestions and improvements that can be made to existing approaches and initiatives.

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