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Displaying 15 of about 28 resultsThis document provides a summary of a survey carried out on trends in corporate philanthropic activities among Keidanren's members during the fiscal year 2013. It also contains results of a survey on activities related to reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake during the same fiscal year.
The survey looked at the status of the initiatives…
This working paper aims to complement the post disaster needs assessment of the Government of Nepal by providing insights into the livelihood dimensions of the earthquake and its socioeconomic and livelihood impacts. It explores the strategic choices and options for developing resilient livelihoods post-earthquake. It details a number of key elements of…
This report overview was compiled based on a questionnaire survey conducted in the fall of 2011 that covered all the member companies and organizations of Keidanren. Key findings of the report are that for the purpose of ensuring readiness for future large-scale natural disasters, it is necessary to enhance functions that collect and provide information…
This report focuses on the first five months after the Nepal Earthquakes of 2015. Interviews conducted during the Earthquake and Megacities Initiative (EMI) Field Mission in June were supported by extensive desk research conducted by the authors to document pertinent information on the response and early recovery activities involving the Government of N…
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, September 2015, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp 310-314, doi:10.1007/s13753-015-0066-1:
This short article explains the management process of the recovery and reconstruction utilized by the Tohoku Regional Bureau — an inter-organizational process — from a business process management perspective and creates a simple…
Oxfam Briefing Paper 208 :
This paper considers the successes and challenges of the response to the April 2015 Nepal earthquake so far, and looks at what must be done to ensure that Nepal recovers in a way which makes it more resilient and more equitable.
The humanitarian response by the Government of Nepal and others has been largely successful. More…
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2013;91:784-789. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.13.117945:
This report presents the outcome of a project carried out with the aim to establish an efficient system of infection surveillance to cover all of the clinics in Rikuzen-Takata of Japan in the wake of the the Great East Japan Earthquake – using only…
This working document presents key considerations to ensure gender equality and women empowerment principles inform the transition process and reconstruction planning after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The guidance is informed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) commitments to mainstream gender in humanitarian action, Government of Nepal relevan…
School of Economics and Finance Working paper: 03/2015:
The paper implements a novel way to aggregate the separate measures of disaster impact - the number of fatalities, of injuries, of people otherwise affected, and the financial damage that natural disasters cause - and apply it to two recent catastrophic events: the Christchurch (New Zealand) earth…
This policy proposal outlines Keidanren's efforts to strengthen the cooperation among companies in terms of Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) following the Great East Japan Earthquake, both in an effort to enhance disaster prevention and reduction and reinforce the competitiveness of the Japanese business community.…
This disaster risk reduction situation report on the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake is divided into three parts: historical disaster impacts, risks and scenarios, and disaster risk reduction (DRR) implementation status. It provides an overview of Nepal's nationally reported losses 1971-2013 and internationally reported losses 1900-2014; probabilistic ec…
This book looks at how nation's leaders, in government, business, religion, academia, and beyond, facilitated Chile's recovery. It argues that strong national leadership on the one hand, and deeply rooted institutional practices on the other played a key role in Chile's remarkable comeback from the Chilean earthquake. Besides from offering reasons for f…
Southasiadisasters.net, issue no. 131, May 2015:
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of humanitarian action after the Nepal earthquake. The ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) is committed to effective implementation of the SFDRR in Asia Pacific region and the Nepal earthquake represents significant challenges to this. As South Asia grapp…
This fact sheet summarizes the support that the European Union (EU) has and will continue to provide to Haiti to aid in Haiti's recovery and in building its resilience to withstand future disasters. This support comes after the devastating earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010 that took 222,750 people's lives, injured many thousands and made 1.5 millio…
This document presents the recovery case study of Haiti after 2010 earthquake. It focuses on the policies and practices of recovery from that time until the present. This document summarizes the key findings from the case study.
The document is part of a series of case studies developed by the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Rec…