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Displaying 15 of about 15 resultsThis document reports on the network's successes in disaster preparedness, response and recovery; health promotion; food security; development; gender equality; promotion of humanitarian principles and values; and its efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination suffered by vulnerable groups across the world. It recalls the prioritization of disaster pre…
This book discusses the practical, political and moral challenges of linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor. It addresses emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the challenges of water scarcity in dryland India, as well as climate change, such as African far…
This DRR Tool Kit for Constituent Assembly members is produced jointly by the following organizations, with funding support of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (through DIPECHO V partners–ActionAid with AusAID co-finance, Care Nepal, Handicap International, Mercy Corps, Practical Action and UNDP–BPCR South and South–West Asia), Oxfam…
This document addresses the imediate public health risks faced by United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations, donor agencies and local authorities currently working with populations affected by the emergency in Haiti: (i) wounds and injuries; (ii) water/sanitation/hygiene-related and foodborne diseases; (iii) diseases associated with crowdin…
This edition analyses the 2009 disaster figures based on the EM-DAT database, with comparisons to previous years, providing an evidence base to the international community on the burden of disease and related health issues due to disasters and conflicts, in order (i) to assist humanitarian action at both national and international levels; (ii) to ration…
Trimester report, period November 2009 – January 2010:
This report highlights the issues and progress in the execution of the Nepal Hazard Risk Assessment (NHRA) project. It summarises the activities carried out in terms of data collection, generation and preparation. It also reports on the workshops conducted on hazard assessment methodology for eart…
Microbiological risk assessment series, no. 17:
This book addresses risk characterization as one of the four steps of microbiological risk assessment, which include hazard identification, exposure assessment, hazard characterization and risk characterization. This volume presents guidelines for risk characterization of microbiological hazards in foods…
This report, produced by the Nepal Climate Vulnerability Study Team (NCVST), provides a scenario of climate change, adaptation options and vulnerability in Nepal. It aims to synthesise existing scientific and socio-economic information on the likely impacts of climate change in the Nepal Himalaya and to assess the complex patterns of vulnerability such…
This document provides essential information on how to prevent child and maternal deaths, diseases, injuries and violence. Its last chapter specifically addresses child protection in emergencies, such as conflicts, disasters or epidemics, delivering the information and support children and their family members may need to prepare for and cope with such…
This resource handbook for grassroots organizations aims to help them monitor governmental security agencies. Chapter 14 specifically assesses the role that civil society can play in overseeing the security sector in states of emergency resulting from natural disasters or health epidemics.
The handbook for civil society organizations on public oversigh…
This study presents a rapid disaster risk assessment carried out in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to: (i) identify major hazards, assess vulnerabilities and analyze risks of future disasters, and (ii) recommend key mitigating measures to make prospective communities in Mutiara village resilient to disasters.
It reveals that earthquake, tsunami, flooding, inund…
This multisectoral assessment report was carried out to determine the impact of the adverse rainfall and/or dry spell on different sectors and recommended appropriate action for mitigation and response. The document was compiled by the Zambia Vulnerability Assessment Committee, which is a technical committee in charge of carrying out Assessment. Its mem…
The inaugural report of the Insurance Working Group of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative:
This report identifies nine vital global sustainability issues, based on their urgency, scale and the ability of the insurance industry to influence them: (1) Climate change and the impact of increased extreme weather conditions; (2) The…
Discussion paper number 11:
This paper is one component of a global study on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) in developing countries. It focuses on the main human health impacts of climate change, which include injuries and deaths from extreme weather events (flooding), heat- and cold-related deaths, water-borne disease (diarrhea)…
This report explores a set of risks that share a potential for wider systemic impact and are strongly linked to a number of significant, long-term trends. Those include: (i) economic risks; (ii) geopolitical risks; (iii) environmental risks, from extreme weather, drought, cyclone, earthquake, flood, to pollution and biodiversity loss; (iv) societal risk…