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Displaying 15 of about 45 resultsThis report maps both the national framework for disaster recovery and the framework applicable in one autonomous community: the Valencian Community. The report uses, as a case study, the 2019 'Cold Drop', which resulted in extensive flooding in the Vega Baja area of the Valencian Community. The recovery phase, or 'return to normality phase' as it is co…
This study identifies 20 key strategies, grouped according to the health systems functions, that have been found as enhancing health systems resilience in the face of COVID-19. This study is targeted at policy-makers and has two aims. First, it provides national policy-makers with evidence from other countries to assess their own responses to COVID-19 a…
This paper looks at how community-based recovery initiatives in Turkey following the 1999 earthquakes have transformed into initiatives around larger issues of building resilience and risk reduction. It examines the nature of their relationships with the state and with each other. The research is based on a cross-case analysis of three civil society org…
This Act regulates the protection of people, animals, property, cultural heritage and environment against natural and other disasters.
It defines as the basic tasks of the system of protection against natural and other disasters to be the following: (i) detection, monitoring and research of natural and other disaster hazards; (ii) prevention of natural…
The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-13 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.
The progress report assesses current national strategic priorities with regard to the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions, and establi…
Asian Disaster Management News, Special Edition, June 2014:
This special edition is reflecting on the challenges faced by the Asian community due to a vast array of disasters and the influence of the private sector as a key partner in mitigation of hazards and a driver of economic recovery. It argues that with the growing global interdependence of econ…
A joint follow-up evaluation of the links between relief,
rehabilitation and development (LRRD):
This report is a follow-up evaluation of linkages between immediate relief, rehabilitation (or reconstruction) and development (LRRD) related to the response to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. The first LRRD evaluation was carried as part of the Tsunami…
The primary conviction of this report is driven by a concern that people’s exposure and vulnerability, experienced individually and collectively, continue to be twin challenges for the Asia-Pacific region. Faced with growing economic losses and increasingly vulnerable populations, this report has analyzed the drivers of risks and the strategies that are…
These case studies accompany the Handbook on Recovery Institutions is to inform the design of effective institutional arrangements for disaster recovery. They describe institutional structures, legal frameworks, and management lessons gleaned from practical experience across the globe. The case studies aim to provide recovery leaders with critical insig…
This act provides for coordinated civil protection measures in Iceland intended to tackle the consequences of emergency situations that may threaten the life and health of the general public, the environment and/or property. It regulates the planning, organization and implementation of measures against natural or man-made disasters, and the provision of…
This act provides for the regulation of measures to ensure protection of life and health of the population, of the environment and of property in events of disaster. Main provisions include preventive measures; integrated rescue system; recovery; involvement, assistance and obligations of natural and legal persons.
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19 is aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19, including government emergency planners and resilience officers.
This issue shares lessons from:
Canada: on how to promote compassion in organisations;
UK: on relieving period poverty during COVID-19; on the closure of public toilets during COV…
This final report presents the outcomes of the Making Cities Resilient New Orleans-Gothenburg exchange. The exchange was part of the United Nation's Making Cities Resilient campaign and concerned with disaster resilience with particular focus on high water levels and flood risk shared by the two coastal cities. With the objective of exchanging informati…
A DFID strategy paper:
This strategy paper sets out how the Government of the United Kingdom plans to transform the way in which DFID and the wider global community approach the humanitarian agenda by proposing new approaches and a framework for investment. It sets out four big problems that the government aims to tackle and provides the results expec…
National disaster law and policies, regional, bilateral and international agreements, declarations and regulations regarding the disaster response law in Turkey within the framework of the 1999-Marmara Earthquake are discussed in this study. To this end, the call for international assistance, the access and operation of foreign relief organizations in t…