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This guide aims to further enhance the skills, knowledge and proficiency of disaster risk reduction practitioners to advocate and communicate on disaster risk reduction in Asia Pacific. It aims to be user friendly rather than academic in tone in order to

The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2009-11 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.

The Japanese Ministry of Land and Infrastructure has sent six experts to conduct a survey in Vietnam asking local authorities to identify specific areas affected by flooding in order to propose preventive measures and plan roads for the evacuation of people from flood-prone areas...

Hundreds of country planners, technocrats, local government leaders, legislators, academicians, scientists, civil society movers and other development partners across the country gather for the start of a three-day summit towards mainstreaming the country's climate change adaptation program...

The risk of landslides in the Philippines, one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, is increasing, experts warn in a report by IRIN...

The Jamaican-based insurance company NEM has put together a number of suggestions in consultation with leading local experts well in advance of a hurricane threat - useful tips for you developing your own risk reduction plan, reports SFCN...

SCR discussion paper 1:

This paper describes the term 'resilience' used in the context of discussion, policies and programming around climate change adaptation ('adaptation') and disaster risk reduction (DRR), and reviews academic conceptualisation of

SCR discussion paper 2:

This review provides a snapshot of current levels of convergence of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) at multiple scales and in doing so, conducts some of the analysis absent from the 2009 UNISDR