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Displaying 15 of about 724 resultsPrepare with Pedro is a 30- to 45-minute preparedness education program for grades K-2 that teaches students how to be prepared and take action for tsunamis. Prepare with Pedro complements The Pillowcase Project in scope and mission, by reading a story featuring a penguin named Pedro.With these learning materials students can: Learn a coping skill…
This paper summarises different approaches to long-term adaptation planning ranging from ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA), community-based adaptation (CBA) approaches, to risk based approaches that countries can use individually or in combination. This publication is produced by the Adaptation Committee as part of its provision of technical support and…
The Peckham Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Plan represents the operational procedures and strategies to be employed at community level in response to, recovery from and preparing for a number of hazards.This plan provides: The residents with a workable, comprehensive system to plan for and respond to emergencies and disasters to…
A key challenge in Nepal is the intersection of predictable chronic or seasonal poverty and vulnerability, with rapid-onset and acute shocks. Nepal in the last few decades has epitomized the 'perfect storm' in which a number of different factors—disasters, conflict, political uncertainty, and challenges to economic growth—coincide with deleterious effec…
This publication is a collection of summaries of ten selected Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP) studies. The studies are published in scientific peer-reviewed journals or as working papers.
The selected studies exemplify the scientific and thematic scope of HICAP’s research and the various scales that HICAP’s research has covered –…
This publication outlines a series of orientation sessions set up by the Nutrition Cluster in aid of strengthening preparedness for a predictable response; in line with envisaged and profiled natural disasters of sudden and slow onset origin in the various disaster-prone districts in Bangladesh.
The orientation sessions were based on an Emer…
This report concentrates on an institutional mapping exercise that details a network of relevant actors in the context of the public policy framework and national level commitments regarding mitigation and adaptation to climate change. It specifically considers the role of national and subnational actors in the context of the nationally determined contr…
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 document provides a description of each of the activities in the core socio-technical assistance package, which is required to complement the financial assistance and support households through the 2015 Nepal earthquake reconstruction process.
The overall objective is that all affected households reconstruct or rehabilitate their homes a…
The objective of this report is to compile and disseminate information about (a) the circumstances that led to the accident in Chilca, (b) its initial handling by the national authorities and their request for assistance from the IAEA, (c) the response of the IAEA and (d) the work done with regard to the dose assessment and medical treatment of the thre…
This paper summarizes the magnitude and impacts of the 2012–2016 California drought. It then reviews innovations arising from the drought in the larger historical context of water management in California. Lessons for California and for modern drought management are then discussed. Droughts in modern, well-managed water systems serving globalized e…
In 2018, the Yahara Lakes, Wisconsin, experienced widespread flooding resulting in millions of dollars of damage. This flooding prompted Resolution 2018 RES-227 by Dane County Board of Supervisors that requested convening a technical work group to evaluate and model various scenarios to improve resiliency for future events. This report provides fin…
This flood management manual builds on the Flood Green Guide developed by the World Wildlife Fund, and is streamlined according to the requirements of Tajikistan. It is developed to help flood managers, authorities, communities, engineers and practitioners who are involved in flood management and flood alleviation. In addition, this document tries to co…
The 2018 monsoon season lessons learnt report captures and analyses knowledge acquired by humanitarian actors during their operations preparing for and responding to monsoon impacts in the Rohingya refugee camps. The purpose is to provide a reference document for planning for future monsoon seasons, support evidence-based advocacy, and identify gaps in…
This working paper aims to contribute to understanding vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate related risks in semi-arid areas for actors associated with the cotton value chain (CVC) in Pakistan.
Given the increasing climate change impacts on cotton production in semi-arid regions in Pakistan, this study was conducted to identify climate…