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Displaying 45 of about 92 resultsThe goal of this paper is to examine how government continuity planning contributes to strengthening the public sector’s disaster preparedness, resulting in enhanced resilience of the public sector. The paper analyzes basic principles of government continuity planning using Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory while summarizing recent developments in t…
This guidance note is intended to provide action-oriented guidance to government officials facing post-disaster recovery challenges related to the transport sector. The guidance note frames the scope of recovery work, including the administrative elements for setting up a planned and organized recovery of the transport sector, the implementation activit…
On September 18, 2011, Bhutan was hit by a 6.9 Richter scale earthquake that killed one person and injured 14 people. Houses, religious and cultural heritage monuments, and public buildings suffered the maximum and most visible damage in the earthquake: approximately 7,965 homes were affected, of which 345 were completely destroyed. Additionally, fifty…
This report is an assessment of damages and needs resulting from the earthquake that struck the state of Gujarat, India on January 26, 2001. The report provides a preliminary assessment of the damages, identifies the needs for reconstruction and recovery, and outlines a strategy for implementing a recovery program.
India suffered a devastating earthqua…
This plan identifies systematic measures that the municipal government and citizens should jointly implement in an organized manner for the earliest possible restoration and recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake. Based on the need to implement flexible plans for a multiple defense system to reduce the risk of damage suffered at the hands of natu…
UNESCO and its partners developed this comprehensive in-service training program in disaster recovery for more than 15,000 education sector personnel in the earthquake-affected areas in Pakistan. Sessions include earthquake preparedness, psychosocial support, multi-grade teaching and child protection. Disaster risk reduction is explicitly taught during…
This manual has been developed to support engineers responsible for the compliance inspection process related to the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The engineers will use this manual to provide advice and guidance to beneficiaries for the implementation of required repair and retrofitting strategies.
The repair and retrofitting strategies set forth in this ma…
This manual has been developed to support the engineers responsible for the compliance inspection process related to the reconstruction of housing affected by the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The engineers will use this manual to provide advice and guidance to households for the implementation of required repair and retrofitting strategies.
The repair and re…
Albania, located on the Balkan Peninsula in South and Southeast Europe, has a population of 2.9 million people. With a total area of 28,748 square kilometres, the country is divided into 12 administrative regions which are further divided into 61 municipalities. The country’s economy has grown remarkably in the past three decades, moving Albania into a…
The project “Making Aceh Safer Through Disaster Risk Reduction In Development” (DRR-A) is designed to make disaster risk reduction a normal part of the development process established in core functions of Aceh’s local government and their public and private partners especially in Aceh’s local communities where the most effective and direc…
This document is intended primarily for host governments that are facing or preparing for the event of a large-scale disaster. It contains the ten most important management lessons learned over a period of four years by BRR, the coordinating agency responsible for the reconstruction of Aceh and Nias following the 2004 Indian Ocean…
This report presents the Save the Children's one-year response and recovery efforts to the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal.
The Save the Children's earthquake response intervention set out to reach 600,000 affected people over a three year period, of whom half would be children. Ninety-eight percent of that target was reached within the first yea…
This document provides three sections in response to the earthquake that struck Pakistan and India in October 2005. The first section covers an overview of the disaster and its impact, including an overview of the government, army and civil society response in addition to the organization of the international response and main actions taken, the second…
As the result of the earthquake the lifelines in Bam, including public health services, totally broke down in the first 24-48 hrs. The Iranian authorities responded swiftly and organized an immediate massive relief operation, nonetheless, due to enormity of the disaster, appealed to the international community for assistance. WHO responded immediately t…
At the request of the Government of Pakistan, a mission led by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank conducted a preliminary damage and needs assessment. This assessment estimates the damage and reconstruction costs of the October 8, 2005 earthquake that struck areas of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ…