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Displaying 15 of about 25 resultsThis compilation of poems and slogans written in Hindi and English by high school students provides strong message on the importance of protecting the environment in order to reduce the risk of disasters and achieve sustainable development. Its aim is to raise public awareness about disaster risks related to natural hazards, such as earthquake, flood, d…
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Ce document présente les réalisations de l’approche de la Direction Générale de la Protection Civile (DGPC) Malienne en matière de gestion des urgences et catastrophes en 2012, 3 années après la mise en œuvre du projet PRECARICA viant à renforcer les capacités de la DGPC, des structures étatiques et des collectivités locales à mieux préven…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Turkmenistan, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, earthquake, epidemics, and mud flow. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an eva…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Chad, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, drought and epidemic. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an evaluation of country’s pr…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Chad, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood and epidemic. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an evaluation of country’s progress, a…
This brief focuses on the key disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) carries out in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (WBGS). It seeks to give an overview of FAO's DRR strategy and briefly describe their activities in WBGS to protect livelihoods from shocks, to make food production…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Nepal, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as land slide, wild fire, flood, epidemic and earthquake. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an…
This report summarizes lessons learnt from the Y Care International supported Sierra Leone YMCA project to carry out a disaster risk reduction (DRR) pilot project in two urban slum communities of Freetown in 2012. The project is a good example of youth participation in DRR, collaboration with other agencies, and learning through research on youth volunt…
This manual is designed for a risk assessment team to guide in conducting rapid risk assessments in acute public health events. The manual is comprised of six sections: (i) section one explains the purpose of the manual and the terminology used; (ii) section two explains the all-hazards approach and the detection and confirmation of a public health eve…
This book captures the measures undertaken and the systems established for disaster management in India. It also articulates the next steps required. It is intended to be used by disaster management practitioners to promote collaborative efforts to reduce disaster risk in the country. It is the outcome of a Ministry of Home Affairs in-house compilation…
This issue provides an update on TASW's purpose in providing readily available and up-to-date expertise in whole of society pandemic preparedness, its activities, its three impact areas, and future needs - including 'seeking to link with other disaser risk reduction and pandemic preparedness groups at nationl, regional and global levels.
Table of conte…
This groundbreaking study looks into the threats likely to confront southern African communities over the next decade. It identifies regional and global factors, including disaster risk reduction, that may impact the lives and livelihoods of southern Africans and, as importantly, the available capacities to address these challenges. It sees the paradigm…
This report asserts that the more widespread integration of science into disaster risk reduction policy making will depend on science being ‘useful, useable and used’. The case studies in the report describe specific examples of scientific learning being employed to enhance disaster risk reduction, providing evidence that science is useable for disaster…
This report provides an assessment of the achievements and progress made in disaster risk reduction (DRR) by Ghana during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). It describes country’s recent experience with natural hazards and disasters, such as flood, tsunami, earthquake and epidemics, also presents national institutional and…
This UNU-EHS InterSections underlines the need to access the topic of early warning from different viewpoints as a way to provide policy relevant advice concerning early warning systems to Member States, and to contribute to the efforts of the United Nations in addressing international cooperation and development of generally applicable standards. This…