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Displaying 15 of about 75 resultsThe primary objective of this tool is to guide Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and civil protection professionals to the practical information they need to ensure that their work is fully inclusive. It will be of use not only to hands-on practitioners, but also to policymakers, and it refers to information that is applicable at local, regional or internat…
For primary school children, featuring Stan the dog and five children - Dan, Ana, Frankie, Matt and Beth - who model what to do in an emergency, around the 4 "Rs" of emergency management (reduction, readiness, response, recovery). This resource has three components, each of which can be used independently or in conjunction with each other: a guide for t…
The people of Uganda, through the Constituent Assembly in Objective 23 and Article 249 of the resulting Constitution, called for an end to intolerable and persistent loss of life, suffering and disruption of economic activities by disasters resulting from the lack of preparedness and patchy uncoordinated responses. Relief, disaster risk reduction and ma…
Report of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs
This report contains the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs of the House of Commons of Canada's Parliament. It reports on the efforts of the Committee to study the response to and long-term impacts of wildfires in First Nation communities duri…
This brief provides an overview of social protection programmes in the context of disaster risk management and adaptive capacity in Nepal. The country has a large portfolio of social protection programs, which, however, are not yet adaptive. The programs are mostly categorical in nature and not designed to build resilience of the poor and vulnerabl…
This document reports on children's experiences during the typhoon Haiyan that hit the Philippines on 8 November 2013, and about their recommendations for response and assistance. Their priorities include education, health, disaster risk reduction and preparedness, infrastructure and town planning, safety and child protection, livelihoods, and technolog…
This review analyses some of the major events and trends related to natural disasters and humanitarian disaster response and looks at the experience of developed countries with natural disasters in 2011. Highlighting evidences from the Japanese earthquake-tsunami-nuclear accident, the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, floods in Australia, and tor…
This document reports on the network's successes in disaster preparedness, response and recovery; health promotion; food security; development; gender equality; promotion of humanitarian principles and values; and its efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination suffered by vulnerable groups across the world. It recalls the prioritization of disaster pre…
This document provides a baseline on which a strategy for Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) within the Caribbean will be designed. CDM has been defined under the DERMS project as including integrated management of all natural and human-induced hazards and involving management through all phases of the Disaster Management Cycle viz. Preventio…
The Fiji Shelter Handbook focuses on shelter coordination and response in Fiji. The handbook holistically supports the shelter sector’s preparedness for and response to disasters such as cyclones, floods, droughts, earthquakes and tsunamis. This support is especially relevant in the context of the severe climate change impacts faced by Pacific nations l…
Training Book, published in an abstract version for the training of the volunteers of the cyclone preparedness program in preparedness activities. It covers subjects like analysis capacity and vulnerability, introduction to cyclones, warning signals and their meaning, evacuation planning, management process, among other things. (UNEsCO)
This report presents the work carried out by CBM together with Nepalese Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs), in some of the worst-hit districts by the 2015 earthquakes. By providing access to medical and psychosocial rehabilitation and support and working on many levels to ensure that mainstream relief and recovery is disability-inclusive, CBM's over…
Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture was one of the coastal cities in the Northeast Tohoku Region which was heavily affected by the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (EJET) that took lives of over 1,200 people, affected 80.8% of the business and deprived 83.5% of the population from their jobs. However, the city was not entirely unprepared to disasters,…
This manual is intended to provide methodological and practical guidance to ACF field workers on how to implement Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment (PCVA) so as to design and initiate stand-alone or mainstreamed DRM actions at the community level. The guiding questions of the manual serve to examine the factors of risk and vulnerabilit…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…