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Displaying 15 of about 174 resultsThis toolkit is a guidebook for building capacity of flood management practitioners in transboundary river basins in the Asia-Pacific region. It provides the know-how of utilizing probabilistic and deterministic modeling frameworks, which integrates meteorological, hydrology and flood forecasting models and accesses real time data and information from m…
This publication stresses the importance of involving migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, and the organisations that represent them, in counter-disaster programming in Europe. The recommendations seek to improve communication, foster mutual understanding, build trust as well as recognise and utilise migrants' skills and coping capacities.
The a…
The aim of this assessment report is twofold, such that it: (a) maps the migration– environment nexus in Kenya by looking at human mobility due to environmental change; and (b) examines existing policy and legal frameworks and offers guidance in mainstreaming migration in Kenya’s national planning of different sectors and at different levels. One o…
This report calls for mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into development interventions in Kenya. With increased vulnerability in the region, climate change is one of the many obstacles to achieving sustainable development and improving resilience in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALS).
Mainstreaming c…
This report focuses on understanding how civil protection organisations learn from direct or indirect experiences (events) and planned learning processes (exercises). An implicit assumption of the authors was that civil protection organisations should be learning organisations that document and respond to operational, coordination, and planning iss…
This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in riverine geographic contexts. Based on research in Zambia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Mozambique, this publication describes Concern’s approach to DRR and offers lessons and guidance on how to use DRR to address hazards t…
This publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in coastal geographic contexts. Based on research in Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown, Sierra Leone, this publication describes Concern’s approach to DRR and offers lessons and guidance…
This publication discusses several cases of collaborations between various stakeholders to achieve resilience to disaster risk. In fact it explains how collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st Century These collaborations combine the capacities, talents, reach and resou…
This study aims to develop a Flood Disaster Resilience Index (FDRI), as an attempt to measure the level of communities’ resilience in mega coastal cities.
The FDRI is developed on five resilience-based capitals: Governance, Economic, Natural, Physical and Social. Alexandria in Egypt and Jakarta in Indonesia are selected as case studies, as they rank th…
The newsletter of the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (Joint Research Unit, European Commission) is issued bi-monthly and reports the main activities of the DRMKC, including the news and events published on the site. In this third newsletter (May 2016), featured content include:
Editorial, by Mr. Philippe Brunet, Director Space Policy at th…
Madagascar has one of the highest rates of cyclones globally and a population comprised primarily of smallholder farmers, yet there is little information on how Malagasy smallholder farmers prepare for and cope with the cyclones. This paper presents the results of interviews with Malagasy farmers following the impacts of cyclone Giovanna that struck…
This household resilience analysis examines differences in resilience capacity and resilience structure between female- and male-headed households, and between regions. This analysis aims at providing programming and policy guidance to policy makers, practitioners, UN agencies, NGO and other stakeholders by identifying the key factors that contribute to…
Climatic Change, March 2016, pp.1-15, doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1641-1:
This research builds upon a recently developed flood risk assessment framework at European scale to explore the benefits of adaptation against extreme floods. The effect of implementing four different adaptation measures is simulated in the modeling framework. Measures include the ris…
This study provides a yearly overview of natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and its impacts. According to the report, 160 disasters were reported in the region, accounting for 47 per cent of the world’s 344 disasters. The region bore the brunt of large scale catastrophic disasters with over 16,000 fatalities, more than a two-fold increase sinc…
This report provides information about the current “adaptation deficit” present in Uganda and the negative consequences and costs that climate variability already has on the Ugandan economy, and is expected to have under future climate change scenarios. Economic assessments of the impacts of climate change were conducted at the national level for five s…