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Displaying 15 of about 161 resultsOn August 14, 2017, landslides and floods devastated a large cross-section of Freetown, Sierra Leone. An estimated 6,000 people were affected, of which 1,141 have been reported dead or missing. More than 3,000 people lost their homes. Almost every sector of the urban economy was impacted. The livelihood impacts of affected communities were widespread.…
A slow-moving tropical depression caused persistent heavy rains in the Solomon Islands between April 1 and April 4, 2014. The rains caused flash flooding in Honiara, Guadalcanal, Isabel, Malaita,and Makira-Ulawa. The flooding was the worst in living memory in some locations. It caused 22 fatalities across the country, internally displaced some 10,000 pe…
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…
Between December 2010 and February 2011, Lesotho experienced river floods, run-off from hill slopes, and rockslides due to severe and prolonged rainfall. Additionally, strong winds and localized hailstorms caused severe damages. The heavy rain significantly impacted the agricultural sector. The Lesotho Vulnerability Assessment Committee estimated that s…
This annual report provides an overview of the 26 UNDP-Japan funded projects implemented in 20 countries across Africa totaling USD 40 million. The report covers projects that were approved in 2020, to be implemented from March 2020- March 2021, in addition to the No-Cost extension from prior year. The report covers projects across four thematic ar…
This analysis argues that investments to build country-level capacities in health security are critical to ensure that the global community is better poised to prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that the world was not well prepared to respond to an infectious disease threat of this magnitude. Countries across al…
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Premier volet de la stratégie du Conseil fédéral, version provisoire:
Cette stratégie fixe le cadre d’une démarche coordonnée au niveau fédéral pour l’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Elle doit permettre à la Suisse d’exploiter les opportunités offertes par les changements climatiques et de minimiser les risques qu’ils induisent, to…
A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…
This decade is on track to be the hottest on record, and heatwaves are only set to become more frequent and intense as climate change takes hold. Heat stress presents a growing threat to human health and economic productivity globally, while driving greater energy demand for cooling.
This research identifies four regional hotspots – West Africa, Centra…
This paper discusses how over the course of the last year, since the declaration of covid-19 as a pandemic, has tracked funding to low- and middle-income countries that has gone through the multilateral system: humanitarian funding in the United Nations (UN) system and development funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank Group (WBG…
This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the world’s water resources and introduces a strong thematic element. Building on the WWDR3 in the recognition of the externalities, the WWDR4 elaborates on the interactions between water and the drivers of change. It describe the major changes, uncertainties, and risks taking place in the world and the…
This second volume presents case studies covering a diverse range of chemical and technological innovations, and highlighting a number of systemic problems. It contains five parts: (i) lessons from health hazards and the value of independent scientific research and risk assessments; (ii) emerging lessons from ecosystems and their wider impacts such as c…
This book offers recommendations and guidance to enhance the disaster resilience of the academic biomedical research community in the United States of America, with a special focus on the potential actions researchers, academic research institutions, and research sponsors can take to mitigate the impact of future disasters.
Chapters within the boo…
Second edition, 2015:
The updated second edition of the Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies at Local Level (APELL) handbook builds on the original publication of 1988, drawing on nearly three decades of experience in supporting resilient communities in more than 30 countries. The document provides the basic concepts for initiating and organizing…
Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences Discussions, January 2016, doi:10.5194/nhess-2015-324:
This paper explores what data is currently available to describe the impacts of the flood event of June 2013 and what can be learnt from them about the types and severities of flood impacts in different sectors. It analyses how good is this data and information…