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Displaying 15 of about 17 resultsIn January 2012, the area of Traditional Authority Mlolo in Nsanje District was hit by two floods after heavy rain led to the swelling of Ruo and Shire Rivers. The floods affected 10,376 people, out of which 6,159 were displaced. The most affected sectors were housing, water and sanitation, and agriculture.
This assessment provides the recovery, reco…
In 2010 and 2011, parts of Uganda experienced rainfall deficits, affecting the country in agricultural, hydrological, and socioeconomic terms. Rainfall deficits did not occur across the entire country, and the level of deficiency varied in different locations. Uganda was not as seriously affected in comparison to other countries in the Great Horn of Afr…
This publication provides a compilation of 25 case studies of schools from 12 countries affected by 6 different hazards in an effort to understand the recovery processes of schools from natural disasters. It links the recovery lessons to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in the education sector (E-HFA) through sixteen tasks that constitute a framewor…
Nepal’s national action plan on disaster management consists of four main plans on: disaster preparedness, disaster response, disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation action, and disaster mitigation. The plan is presented in the form of a matrix indicating priority item groups, activities, time schedule, and executing agencies.
While the ravages of the disastrous floods of 2010 were still apparent, the 2011 monsoon season, which started with a normal rain pattern, intensified from 10 August onwards and triggered severe flooding in various regions of the country, most significantly in Sindh and Balochistan provinces. In the worst-hit areas, including some of those also affected…
This document describes disaster conditions in Japan, presents legal and institutional framework and disaster prevention plans, and discusses current major disaster prevention measures related to research and development, preparedness, national land conservation, emergency and recovery.
This book is intended to provide an overview of the concept of ecosystem approach to disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR), natural resource management and disaster linkages, incorporating Eco-DRR concepts in various phases of disaster management, including post disaster recovery in wide range of human and natural environmental settings. The case studies co…
This guidance note presents a series of steps to initiate and sustain Pre Disaster Recovery Planning (PDRP) in order to ensure that communities "build back better" following a natural disaster. It offers guidance on developing a planning framework and attempts to present the key steps and considerations at a broad level, to present relevant examples, an…
This study focuses on the 2006 landslide tragedy in the Philippines, where an entire community, including its people, its productive assets, and its socio-cultural resources, was totally buried. It reports on the various levels of recovery that have been achieved among the provision of community services and facilities such as health, education, recreat…
This case study, conducted by Wellington Emergency Management Office, presents emergency management practices in place for the city of Wellington, and discusses the all hazards approach and different phases of the comprehensive emergency management concept, including mitigation, public awareness and preparedness, and integrated response and recovery pla…
This is a report of a field trip, 14-29 February 2012, to the areas affected by the Christchurch earthquakes. The trip was part of a University of Cambridge research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) aimed at operationalising a method we devised of using satellite imagery analysis to track recovery after ma…
Towards the end of August and the beginning of September 2012, heavy rains (around 50 years of return period) affected the North and Far North regions of Cameroon. These resulted in the flooding of the Tsanaga, Boula, Grueleo, Vrick mayos and the Logone river and the exceptional rise in the level of Lake Maga (about 312.50 m SNC). On the date of the fie…
Tropical Storm (TS) Sendong (International name: Washi) was the second tropical storm that affected Mindanao in 2011 and the nineteenth tropical storm that entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) in the same year.
This PDNA aims to assess the damage, losses, and needs for recovery in key social, infrastructure, and productive sectors as a…
This document presents the findings of the drought Post-Disaster Needs Analysis (PDNA) conducted in Kenya. The assessment aims to develop a quantitative estimation of the impact of the drought on the socioeconomic development of Kenya and recommendations for immediate recovery and long-term resilience-building in the country. The findings that have emer…
This document is an outcome of the 2010 course "First aid to cultural heritage in time of conflict", which aimed to create a framework to secure cultural heritage in such times. Part 3 of the document includes lessons learned from experiences with natural disasters. It presents: (i) the case of the earthquake in the Syrian Kodar village in 2005 as a cul…