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Displaying 175 of about 175 resultsThis document gives options for rebuilding the community, meeting the evident needs of the most vulnerable people and filling key gaps in Haiti’s reconstruction regarding shelter and relief, water and sanitation, health and recovery. It states that risk reduction must be an integral part of recovery to truly rebuild safer and more resilient communities.…
Policy brief no.1, 2015:
The policy brief draws on lessons learned from the Fukushima earthquake and elaborates on solutions for displaced populations trapped in uncertainty. It provides recommendations regarding: (i) durable solutions which systematically need to be established through ongoing re-examinations of policies, laws and institutio…
Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, Volume 19, Special Issue:
The Second Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Conference was held in Beijing, China, on the 7th to 9th of June, 2014. This event gathered a diverse international combination of researchers, policy makers, practitioners, funders and disaster risk reduction agencies, to disc…
Drawing on the rights-based approach laid out in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (IASC Framework) and reflected in many of the Philippines’ own domestic standards, this report analyses efforts to resolve the displacement crisis generated by Typhoon Haiyan.
According to the IASC Framewo…
This publication offers a set of guiding, action-oriented principles and practical cases to support recovering communities as they plan and implement recovery. The principles focus on key cross-cutting issues for recovery such as building back better and greener, inclusive and people-centred recovery, and preserving development gains, among others. It o…
This paper explores the contradictions presented by formal interventions into communities. Rationalized to be irreplaceable, these interventions are event centric and differ considerably from the community's experience of disaster risk and recovery within the everyday context, especially marginalized ones that are presumed to lack capacity. Thus, c…
COBRA 2008 - the construction and building research conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:
This study explores women’s status in post disaster situations and examines the concept of empowerment in response to the need to include women’s contribution to disaster management and to emphasise its importance in building disaster resilie…
This document presents how Save the Children intervened in the areas of Bangladesh affected by cyclone Sidr in 2005, and helped people to recover from damages and losses. Disaster preparedness and risk reduction had been a major factor in preventing the loss of lives and helped save tens of thousands of people.
The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 23 no. 2, May 2008
The author presents the results of a study on the adjustment of two ethnic groups to the post-disaster resettlement program after the 1991 Mt Pinatubo volcano eruption in the Philippines.
This study focuses on the adjustment of two lowland ethnic groups of the Philippines, i.e. th…
Non-official, non-UN language translations:
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster reduction…