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Explore a comprehensive collection of publications, reports, and documents that focus on disaster risk and resilience.

These resources offer insights, best practices, and research aimed at mitigating the impact of disasters. Whether you're seeking the latest research, policy recommendations, or case studies, this library supports knowledge sharing and informed decision-making in building safer, more resilient communities.

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Result area 2 activity report 2016-2017 of the Building Disaster Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa Program

This report summarizes the activities and achievements under the Result 2 of the Program Building Disaster Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa. African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have operational capacities for coordination, planning and policy

World Bank, the
Organization of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
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Resilient Los Angeles

This document is a result of collaboration between the city of Los Angeles, 100 Resilient Cities at the Rockefeller Foundation and various stakeholders and partners to outline an approach and actions to be undertaken that build resilience in the city. 

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City of Los Angeles
100 Resilient Cities
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Overcoming the NDC implementation gap: lessons from experience

Early lessons on the challenges of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) implementation are emerging. NDCs will not succeed without the right level of integration with national development policy and planning to promote development resilience

Oxford Policy Management
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Handbook for assessing loss and damage in vulnerable communities

This publication is primarily concerned with assessing loss and damage in poor, rural areas that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, but alternative applications of the handbook are outlined in section 7. This methodological handbook aims to

United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
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Climate change in MENA: challenges and opportunities for the world’s most water stressed region

With the adoption of a Climate Change Action Plan, this brief outlines concrete actions for the World Bank, describing how it intends to scale up climate action, integrate climate change across its operations, and work more closely with others, through

World Bank, the
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Words matter: using language and technology to better inform the climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction communities

This brief advances the case for more considered knowledge-sharing practices, so that the abundant information and knowledge we have about climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) can be used to its full potential. This philosophy

PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction
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Myanmar child-centred risk assessment - Second edition

The Child Centred Risk Assessment (CCRA) provides a detailed and extensive view of risk across the country and serves as a decision-support tool for the Government of Myanmar (GoM) and its partners. The outcome of the analysis is a child-centred risk

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Myanmar - government
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Governance pathways to resilience: emerging findings

This brief report brings together lessons from the first year of the Resilience Governance research programme, which is embedded within the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges (RNC) and is designed to develop a ‘toolkit’ of governance solutions. The

New Zealand - government