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Displaying 9 of about 9 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 paper explains the excess rainfall parametric insurance product of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and Swiss Re Excess Rainfall (XSR), which helps to mitigate the short-term cash flow problems small developing economies suffer after major natural disasters. The product is aimed primarily at extreme high rainfall events of…
Technical paper series no 1:
This paper explains the parametric insurance system of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) in the event of a hurricane or an earthquake. The paper explains the differences between parametric insurance systems and indemnity-based systems, how payments are calculated, and the CCRIB catastrophe model.…
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En el boletín de Salud Pública y Gestión del Riesgo del CRID de enero podrá consultar sobre el nuevo portal en francés para Haití sobre emergencias y desastres, información sobre la sistematización y lecciones aprendidas del proyecto de OPS "Hospitales seguros y riesgo urbano en Centroamérica", materiales de sensibilización, convocatorias y…
This knowledge note gathers experiences and lessons learned collected in so called good practice and advisory notes and offered to governments requesting assistance from the World Bank. Based on the proven usefulness of good practice notes in formulating recovery framework including disaster risk reduction, GFDRR has decided to develop knowledge notes f…
This report presents the activities implemented by the French Red Cross in partnership with the Haitian Red Cross since the earthquake which struck the island 2 years ago. It includes disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness as one of the three pillars that have been identified in cooperation with the Haitian Red Cross Society.
Compilations of Disaster risk reduction projects in Haïti from 2011 to 2012.
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 document states that UNICEF is requesting over US$ 24 million in its 2012 Consolidated Appeal to address immediate humanitarian needs associated with prolonged displacement, the cholera outbreak, and preparedness for the next hurricane season and the potential for other sudden-onset emergencies in Haïti. It asserts that two years after the 12 Janua…