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Displaying 45 of about 1031 resultsThis bill amends the Disaster Management Act, 2002. The amendments include the following:
clarification of policy focus on rehabilitation and functioning of disaster management centres alignment of the functions of the National Disaster Management Advisory Forum to accommodate the South African National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction providing f…
This Act regulates the protection of people, animals, property, cultural heritage and environment against natural and other disasters.
It defines as the basic tasks of the system of protection against natural and other disasters to be the following: (i) detection, monitoring and research of natural and other disaster hazards; (ii) prevention of natural…
This National Disaster Risk Management Plan (NDRMP) aims to further develop the disaster risk reduction framework developed as espoused by the National Disaster Management Policy (2012). The 120-page document has six parts presenting both theoretical and practical core concepts that can be applied to Rwandan realities.
The plan was prepared by the Mini…
The Law on natural disaster prevention and control (the Law) was passed in June 2013 and took effect on May 1, 2014. The 47-article Law provides for disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation measures, from national to local and community levels. The Law outlines natural disaster prevention and control activities, including a nati…
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Le plan ORSEC est un plan cadre gouvernemental, permettant d’organiser la réponse en cas de catastrophe de grande ampleur qui dépasse les moyens habituellement misent en place pour y répondre. Il permet d’appuyer le leadership du gouvernement sur l’organisation de cette réponse en clarifiant les rôles et responsabilités de chacun mais auss…
This is a participatory learning game for children to strengthen understanding of local climate change impacts and engage children and youth in exploring ideas on what they and their community can do to reduce climate risks, adapt and become more resilient. It supports experiential learning and dialogue to strengthen understanding of local climate chang…
This booklet explains the topic of earthquakes addressed to pre-school and kindergarten children. The booklet is produced in the framework of the European project RACCE: Raising Earthquake Awareness & Coping Children's Emotions.
This report provides a description of the accident and its causes, evolution and consequences, based on the evaluation of data and information from a large number of sources available at the time of writing. It consists of a report by the IAEA Director General and five technical volumes. It is the result of an extensive international collaborative effor…
This paper presents an explanatory framework for measuring resilient outcomes that embraces and makes sense of the current diversity in resilience approaches. It highlights a set of interrelated resilience capacities – the capacity to adapt to, anticipate and absorb climate extremes and disasters (the 3As). In acknowledgment of the growing discourse on…
This report shows the results of a nationwide risk assessment aimed to develop a comprehensive disaster risk profile for Rwanda. It covers five major natural hazards prevailing in Rwanda namely; droughts, floods, landslides, earthquakes and windstorms. The elements at risk considered in the assessment are: population, agriculture, health, education, hou…
Report 3: 2014-15
This report examines cyclone and storm tide sheltering arrangements across Queensland, Australia. It reviews local governments to consider whether arrangements match local risk and that vulnerable people can readily access this information. It focuses on three areas: risk, sheltering arrangements, and community engagement.
The report…
This guidance note from the Nepal education cluster highlights the importance of considering environment as part of the emergency education response. It explains why a critical component of saving lives and reducing risk after a disaster includes work to ensure that the natural resources that form the basis for human life and livelihoods are restored an…
This report originates from a taskforce of academics, industry and policy experts to examine the resilience of the global food system to extreme weather events. This synthesis report is built on three detailed reports: Climate and global production shocks, Review of the responses to production shocks and the Country-level impacts of global grain product…
This paper analyses both the volume of finance that climate adaptation funds direct to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and the extent to which DRR is integrated within their supported activities. It also assesses which regions and countries have benefited most from DRR investments through these funds to understand whether those most in need are being targ…
Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies; Vol 7, No 1 (2015), 7 pages. doi: 10.4102/jamba.v7i1.148:
This article, based mainly on qualitative desk research and document analysis, aims to illuminate the specific vulnerability of children to hazards and disasters. The research showed that owing to their special physiological, psychological, emotional and…