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Displaying 3000 of about 3246 resultsA statement in which the participants of the 4th Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), including governments, intergovernmental regional organizations, bilateral and multilateral donors, United Nations, academic and technical institutions, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Government Organizations, mayor…
This law regulates the national policy for disaster reduction and provides for the implementation and financing of disaster risk management in Madagascar.
This order provides for the creation, organization and operation of a National Observatory of Risks of Cameroon.
The Connecting Business Initiative (CBi) Progress Report 2017 provides an overview of the achievements of the initiative and results of the first CBi Annual Survey. Whereas feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and based on experiences and lessons learned, we have also identified gaps—in addressing complex emergencies, measuring impact and expl…
This document describes the role and achievements of the ESCAP Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness in Indian Ocean and South East Asian Countries (Trust Fund), which was established in 2005 to contribute to the development of an integrated regional early warning system (EWS) comprising a network of collaborati…
This study, conducted by the USAID-funded Climate Information Services Research Initiative (CISRI), is designed to contribute to the operationalization of Niger's National Framework for Climate Services, known as the Cadre National pour les Services Climatologiques, by filling knowledge gaps related to climate information services (CIS) end user ne…
Standardisation is a powerful tool to achieve better interoperability. However, it needs to overcome a lack of interest and modest participation from stakeholders. Also, promising research results are not always used as the basis for new standards.
The overall goal of ResiStand is to find new ways to improve the crisis management and disaster resilienc…
Aimed at an audience of resilience and development practitioners, this document offers diverse experiences and practice-based recommendations to leverage Big Data’s potential and address its risks as part of efforts to build resilience. The Storybook is a collaborative initiative that features case studies of seven international organizations working at…
This report is divided into two parts. Part I provides an analysis of the drought situation in Western Cape, South Africa, as of January 2018. Part II presents an analysis of the medium to long-term spatial patterns and temporal behaviour of climate variables (precipitation and temperature) in Southern Africa. It gives a regional overview of the recent…
The purpose of this report is to provide a better understanding of the relationship between standardisation and improved disaster resilience and assess the efficiency of standardisation as a tool to improve crisis management and disaster resilience. To achieve this purpose, the characteristics of both standardisation and disaster management have been re…
In 2017 the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the European Commission started a joint 18-month project to analyse developments in health policies to address adaptation to climate change in European Union countries and to compile a selection of good practice case studies. Results were extracted from a desk review of available documents and from interact…
JRC is developing a unified global system for public health threat detection and risk assessment (EIOS), and it is the technical and scientific leader of the Index for Risk Management (INFORM), a composite indicator that identifies countries at risk of humanitarian crisis and disaster that would overwhelm national response capacity. Both projects are in…
How can social protection systems be used in disasters, as a complement to, or substitute for, humanitarian assistance? Oxford Policy Management led a three-year research project investigating this question, looking at the role of social protection in both mitigating the impact of large-scale shocks and supporting households after a crisis hits. They…
To achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, dedicated efforts are required by all government levels as well as stakeholders from business and civil society. Especially cities and municipalities need to be recognized, engaged and enabled to fulfil their role as important climate actors. Despite the numerous existing climate initiatives, local mi…
This study assesses how climate change could affect Europe in eleven impact areas.
Under a high warming scenario, several climate impacts show a clear geographical north-south divide. Most of the welfare losses, assessed for six impact areas, would be greatly reduced under a 2ᵒC scenario.
The assessment is based on a consistent methodological framewor…