Documents and publications

This report summarizes workshop discussions that aimed to review best practice in the areas of emergency preparedness and risk communication, specifically in the context of public health preparedness plans. This report includes sections on foundational

This Down By The River report relays the priorities shared by Fijian sexual and gender minorities through their stories, and offers reflections from a workshop with Fijian disaster risk reduction (DRR) and humanitarian actors. Although Down By The River

Improving resilience to climate change in South Sudan

This paper is a synthesis of the key findings from research undertaken with the BRACED portfolio. The paper makes a number of recommendations for future work and research. The aim of all of the

This brochure presents the main findings of a study into insurance mechanisms dealing with climate-related extreme weather events. Insurance has attracted much attention as a tool in climate risk management in this context. In addition to financial

This lesson learning paper was developed with the objective of identifying key learnings from the XCSEL project’s mainstreaming of DRR practices over the course of three years working with rural and peri-urban farmers in Mozambique. They key focus was to

This issue of Knowledge Matters starts with an overview of how Concern understands community resilience and goes on to share learning emerging from its programmes across the drylands of the Sahel and East Africa including Chad, Sudan, Niger, Kenya and

This document is the fourth in a series of special topics for consideration, as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment published by UNISDR. This section focuses on the direct and indirect economic impact of disasters

This case study focuses on the use of forecast-based financing (FbF) for climate-related hazards such as floods, drought and storms in Togo and Uganda, in order to complement existing early warning systems with financing for early action.