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The five largest cities and most important economic centers of Viet Nam pledged to make cities safer against disasters at the second National Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai today. The Forum set a firm plan to establish the National Platform and launched the World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Making Cities Resilient- My City is Getting Ready.”

Officials from Mediterranean Civil Protection Authorities will meet in Rome next week, together with the European Commission and the United Nations, to assess the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action in the Mediterranean and to review the contribution provided by the PPRD South Programme...

The Global Forum for Disaster Reduction, India, are inviting entries for the First International Film Forum on Disaster Risk Reductionn 'Shock-Waves 2011', taking place in April and where short documentary and fiction films on the theme of disaster management, risk reduction and rehabilitation will be screened in April...

This review intends to guide future British aid investment. It also assesses the value for money provided by more than 40 multilateral organisations undertaking a broad range of activities funded by DFID, assessing need and effectiveness in different ways

Call for accountability: '...We will not tolerate waste, inefficiency or a failure to focus on poverty reduction' said Andrew Mitchell, UK international development secretary referring to a review of multilateral agencies published this week by DFID, reports the FT...

CDG working paper 2:

This research seeks to overcome the accountability gap in processes intending to operationalise state accountability for disaster risk reduction (DRR), by understanding accountability in development as a social and political process

Using Ethiopia as a case study, this paper discusses the value of two key factors, "timeliness" and "reliability" that disaster insurance could bring to humanitarian intervention. Its purpose is to explore the potential role of Index-based Disaster

This report examines social capacity building and how this might be understood in the context of natural hazards in Europe. The objective of the report is to review the existing literature on social capacity building and to relate it to natural hazards