Preparedness

The LRP 2026 aims to respond holistically to the multiple crises facing Lebanon including residual humanitarian needs in conflict affected areas and presents an appeal of $1.62 billion to support coordinated interventions across nine sectors.

Following a series of major disasters and inquiries that questioned New Zealand’s capacity to deal with them, the new Emergency Management Act 2026 is the most significant improvement in more than two decades.

This report presents findings from a survey of 3,700 U.S. adults on disaster preparedness. Most respondents are concerned about natural disasters, but few feel very prepared, with cost identified as the leading barrier to preparedness.

United We Prepare®, a disaster preparedness initiative by United Way Worldwide, supported by Verizon, is helping to make preparedness easier, less costly, and more accessible. It provides tools and information, to prepare for disasters.

This survey is a nationally representative survey of adults in the UK, carried out in order to understand what people think about different types of emergencies, and what steps – if any – they have taken to prepare for them

The issue with how America deals with wildfires is thinking there is one primary strategy to end the wildfire crisis. But effective wildfire strategy in worsening fire seasons demands a system of actions – interconnected pieces that reinforce one another.

With El Niño threatening to disrupt upcoming rainfall and agricultural seasons, the LRCS activated its EAP for drought and begin implementing anticipatory actions to support the most vulnerable households. Heightened food insecurity is the main concern.

Taking the small positives after a disaster in the Pacific, how one Samoan resident says the 2009 tsunami helped change people’s mind sets.

EU wildfire prepositioning places firefighters in high-risk countries during fire season, enabling joint training, operational readiness, cross-border cooperation. In 2026, ~800 firefighters from 14 countries deployed to support wildfire preparedness.

WFP is scaling up anticipatory action across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help vulnerable communities prepare for El Niño-linked droughts, floods and hunger through cash assistance, early warnings, farming support and resilience measures.

This report compiles global best practices on industrial hazard mitigation and management, drawing lessons from major incidents, safety frameworks and international experience to strengthen risk-informed governance, preparedness, resilience and safety.

As wildfires strain resources across North America, IAFF training is preparing municipal fire fighters to respond safely in the wildland-urban interface.

This paper presents the Community Capacity Co-design Process (C3P), a trauma-informed, seven-step framework that enables communities to localise and evaluate their own disaster response capacities.

This study examines how flooding and fire are experienced and managed in Khan Road informal settlement, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

This Ready2Respond (R2R) diagnostic assesses Liberia’s emergency preparedness and response (EP&R) capacity across five components

The agreement will allow Seychelles to rapidly access funds for household cash transfers following climate shocks such as floods, landslides and tsunamis, with the ASP acting as the delivery channel for these transfers to affected individuals and families

The disaster exposed a weakness on both sides of Nepal’s warning system: It had no real-time information about the hazard developing in Tibet, while the monitoring equipment it had installed inside Nepal was destroyed before it could send an alert.

Review of disaster management research in Bangladesh (2000–2024). The paper identifies major thematic trends, gaps and challenges, highlighting a shift toward resilience-based approaches while calling for stronger governance, inclusion and coordination.

Forecasting and early warning technology remain essential, but they have to be matched by readiness at the community level – evacuation plans, trusted communication networks, prepared local institutions and people able to act when information arrives.

As heat, drought and extreme rainfall put growing pressure on Europe’s cities, the city of Guimaraes is using digital tools and scientific data to decide where climate action is needed most, and to measure what works.

New social science research is helping strengthen tsunami safety messaging by showing how people understand evacuation maps, natural warnings and official alerts.

The Nepal disaster is not only a warning about a changing Himalaya. It exposes why societies fail to act on risks they already understand.

Scientists say it will take more than early warning systems and cooling centers to keep people safe.

Wildland firefighting is increasingly facing an intractable reality: We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. A doom loop.

A survey of 1,207 households across three severely affected districts (Buner, Shangla, and Swat) revealed that 85 percent of families received no warning before the flood waters arrived. For those that did, half had less than thirty minutes to act.

This study investigates the complex interplay between local knowledge, awareness, perception, and preparedness among residents of Bogura City, Bangladesh, in the context of earthquake risk.

In Marigot, two spring-fed water systems faced the same storm. One continued delivering water while the other failed completely, showing how early investment in source protection and disaster risk reduction can strengthen resilience.

This study applies regional scoping framework, a risk-to-action chain that follows risk as it moves through a system from information, to decisions, to finance, to action, to impact.

Bosai is a Japanese concept that encompasses all stages of disaster management. In a country where natural hazards are a frequent threat, understanding bosai is one of the most practical ways for individuals to protect themselves and those around them.

An evaluation of more than two decades of World Bank Group support for epidemic preparedness, highlighting achievements, gaps, and opportunities to strengthen global health security.

This study assesses preparedness, response and recovery following Cyclone Ana in Zimbabwe. It finds gaps in preparedness, warning communication and coordination, and calls for community-centred DRM, stronger capacity, financing and contingency planning.

Virtual simulations spotlight the role human behavior plays in earthquake safety. UC Berkeley researchers are studying what happens in those critical moments and how fear and risk perception influence people’s actions.

The new results suggest that, particularly for the UK and Ireland, storms with unusual origins may deserve a place in assessments of future wind and rainfall risk—even if they remain far less common than the storms Europe experiences every winter.

Despite decades of warnings, neighborhoods in Reno and Spokane have sprawled ever closer to a hotter, drier wilderness. And in the summer, months of low humidity and hot weather prime the landscape to burn.

Last updated 31 Aug 2026

The catastrophic flood in Nepal and Tibet is a devastating reminder that disasters rarely occur in isolation.

This executive advisory from UNDRR CCRO Network outlines how businesses can prepare for a strengthening El Niño, highlighting risks to supply chains, operations and finances, and recommending practical resilience and preparedness measures.

Climate change has amplified Europe’s heatwaves and increased the severity of the 2026 drought . With these effects expected to intensify, Europe can learn a lot from African leaders – and share resources and knowledge in turn. They have been here before.

The El Niño Climate Impact Outlook: Mozambique examines the expected evolution of El Niño during the second half of 2026 and its potential impacts across the country.

This outlook examines the expected evolution of El Niño during the second half of 2026 in Philippines and its potential impacts across the country.

The El Niño climate impact outlook Somalia examines the evolving El Niño conditions and the potential implications for the October–December 2026 Deyr season.

The ENSO Outlook, developed by IWMI, Sri Lanka, a first-of-its-kind ENSO Digital Public Infrastructure, is designed to turn El Niño and La Niña climate signals into timely, actionable measures, focusing on farm-level preparedness and response to shocks.

Morocco’s Integrated Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Program shifted the country from disaster response to risk prevention, financing >300 resilience projects, protecting millions of people and strengthening disaster risk financing by 2025.

A strengthening El Niño could become one of the strongest on record, threatening food security for millions through 2027. WFP is scaling anticipatory action to reduce hunger risks from droughts, floods and climate-related shocks.

Last updated 24 Aug 2026