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Displaying 885 of about 885 resultsThe annual report assesses the state of preparedness of the United States. It focuses on five mission areas: (i) Prevention, (ii) Protection, (iii) Mitigation, (iv) Response, and (v) Recovery. It identifies areas where the U.S. have made significant progress, acknowledges remaining opportunities for improvement, and reinforces the important principles o…
This document presents a South-East Asia specific disaster risk reduction framework that provides more specific guidance to National Societies in acknowledgement of the Framework for Community Safety and Resilience and global guidance, which outlines the Red Cross Red Crescent approach to disaster risk reduction and guides National Society contributions…
The overall goal of this study is to strengthen the quality, accuracy, and completeness of disaster data in Europe. As part of the MICRODIS project, the study analyses the impact of recent disasters on human populations, using both statistical and spatial data through generated geocoded maps of impact areas. It is intended to serve as a preliminary and…
This report explores a set of risks that share a potential for wider systemic impact and are strongly linked to a number of significant, long-term trends. Those include: (i) economic risks; (ii) geopolitical risks; (iii) environmental risks, from extreme weather, drought, cyclone, earthquake, flood, to pollution and biodiversity loss; (iv) societal risk…
The new Integrated Disease Surveillance (IDSR) regional strategy emphasizes the interlinkages within the IDSR as an integral part of health systems strengthening to achieve universal health coverage (UHC).
The first objective of the new IDSR strategy is to strengthen national capacity for early detection, complete recording, timely reporting…
The guidelines aim to harmonize and codify existing policies of the Interagency Task Force (IATF) and member-agencies pertaining to community quarantine, which shall be applied to all regions, provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays placed under community quarantine in the Philippines.
The interim guideline provides direction for safety measures on school preparedness as they are reopening in Sri Lanka. The purpose of this guideline is to make all school authorities to implement the preparedness plan as outlined in the document. The guideline has been prepared based on the available evidence on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The National Education Response and Resilience Plan for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) provides a framework of strategies and interventions for Pakistan’s education system to cope with the effects of COVID-19. The plan covers all geographic areas and provinces of Pakistan including Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, Gilgit…
The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation, and Coordination, Government of Pakistan, has issued the National Action Plan as a policy document to ensure that guiding principles for outbreak preparedness, containment and mitigation are followed.
The draft action plan to improve public health preparedness and response in the WHO European Region, 2018–2023, aims to strengthen national and regional capacities to effectively prevent, prepare for, detect and respond to public health threats and emergencies and to provide support to affected countries, when necessary. It takes into account actions ta…
COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on businesses across Asia-Pacific. Many are closed while others are struggling to maintain operations while ensuring the safety of their workers. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)- which comprise more than 90% of all businesses in most Asia-Pacific countries- are especially hard hit. However, busi…
As the Global Risk Assessment Report (GAR2019) has highlighted, the nature and scale of risk have changed. In our increasingly complex inter-connected world risk has become systemic, challenging governance mechanisms of established risk management institutions and single-hazard approaches. As an example of the above, the systemic nature of the COVID-19…
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the response to the pandemic is unfolding with various DRR governance approaches and initiatives to curb the spread of the disease as well as its interconnected socioeconomic impacts. As a result of an often resourced constrained environment and strong past experiences with the Ebola crises, approaches in Sub-Saharan countries hav…
This document is the fifth in a series of hazard-specific risk assessment modules, compiled as part of the Words into Action Guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment by UNISDR. This section provides a general introduction to the assessment of biological hazards. This section outlines various approaches to assessing the risk of biologica…
The Earth’s natural ecosystems and physical environment in which communities live are rapidly deteriorating and, in turn, increasing the risk of premature morbidity and mortality of people worldwide. Hydrometeorological hazards are concentrating contaminants from the damaged environment and exposing large populations of vulnerable people to serious heal…