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Displaying 45 of about 344 resultsThis report examines Haiti’s legal framework for facilitating and regulating international disaster assistance in the light of the IDRL Guidelines and the experience with the international response to the 2010 earthquake. It sets out recommendations for how to prepare for potential future disasters.
The IFRC’s International Disaster Response Laws, Rule…
This document provides a sensible set of guidelines for deciding what should be rebuilt and where. It states that a concept of "disaster reduction" will be paramount in reconstruction. Based on this concept, preparations for disaster must be made from the perspectives of prioritizing efforts to ensure that even if disaster strikes it will not result in…
This paper discusses the role of resource rights in pre-disaster resilience and post-disaster reconstruction. It also raises a number of important questions: Where is the balance between communally-held and privately-held resource rights? How can an understanding of resource rights be integrated into disaster risk reduction plans and disaster relief? An…
This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The main intended audiences are operational decision-makers and relief programme managers working in the South Asia earthquake relief operation. As agency personnel have expressed a need for clear and concise guidance, this paper aims to provide th…
The impact of disaster also depends on the levels of development and disaster preparedness of individual cities. This is evident when comparing the contrasting cases of Kobe, Japan (hit by a 7.2 Richter magnitude earthquake in 1995) and Marmara, Turkey (hit by a 7.4 Richter magnitude earthquake in 1999). The Kobe (or Great Hanshin) earthquake was amongs…
This report documents the event of the Kocaeli Earthquake in Turkey in 1999. In addition to providing background information on the event, this report includes the following sections: the earthquake and its geologic effects, building and infrastructure damage, industrial facilities, and insured and economic losses. The report also includes a section on…
The report is a preliminary assessment of damages and needs resulting from the earthquake that struck the state of Gujarat, India, in 2001, which also tries to outline a strategy for implementing a recovery program. It has to be considered as the result of a close collaboration of WB (World Bank) and ADB (Asian Development Bank) teams with the Governmen…
The Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 brought huge damage to Japan. The postal sector was no exception. Nearly 700 post offices were damaged.
This booklet is a record of the impacts and challenges this unprecedented disaster brought.
This action plan was developed in response to the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal in April 2015. It contains 40 action points, with some of the most crucial being:
Constructing temporary emergency shelters for earthquake-affected senior citizens, single women, sick, pregnant and new mothers, the disabled, and other vulnerable populations.
P…
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…
This guide first lays out the relevant building codes in force in Colombia for small and medium scale construction projects. Subsequent sections discuss factors affecting earthquake vulnerability of masonry structures and mitigation strategies, factors in earthquake resistant design including geo-engineering, structural design, construction materials, a…
Este manual se ha realizado, por lo tanto, con el propósito de que sirva como una guía técnica idónea en donde se presentan alternativas de intervención o rehabilitación sísmica para disminuir la vulnerabilidad de las edificaciones existentes de adobe y tapia pisada y así disminuir la pérdida de vidas humanas en caso de presentarse un sismo. Esta guía n…
This publication contains 13 testimonies of those who were in Mexico in the front lines responding to the disaster from the health, education, culture, first response, international cooperation and reconstruction sectors. Around midnight on September 7, 2017, an earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale shook the States of Oaxaca and Chiapas in…
This SOP is prepared to make the inspection of housing reconstructions and retrofits easy and systematic for safer and strong construction on the basis of Grant Distribution Guidelines 2015, for reconstruction of houses that were damaged by the Nepal earthquake of April 25, 2015.
To facilitate all the stakeholders- home owners, beneficiaries, loca…
This paper utilizes the National Disaster Response Framework 2013 guidelines to analyze the large-scale disaster response of the Nepal government’s institutional system in the wake of the 2015 earthquake. The methodology includes in-depth interviews with key informants, focus group discussions, field observations, and document analysis.
The study found…