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Displaying 15 of about 25 resultsThis publication is a synthesis of lessons from more than a decade of Concern Worldwide’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming in coastal geographic contexts. Based on research in Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown, Sierra Leone, this publication describes Concern’s approach to DRR and offers lessons and guidance…
This study consists of a desk analysis of ten initially selected countries using available information provided by key informants from institutions working in those selected countries in disaster reduction project in the education sector. The four main dimensions identified are as follows: (i) hazards and risks knowledge, (ii) structural and non structu…
This policy document presents JICA’s international cooperation programmes and engagements with developing countries specifically aimed at making them more disaster resilience, and includes examples. It outlines how JICA is enhancing the capacity to cope with disasters according to its development strategy goals: i) prevention phase, development of disas…
Press release: 2012/004/SDN
Countries get $534 million for bold plans to climate-proof water, farming, forests, and cities
Cape Town - The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), a partnership of five multilateral development banks, approved $444 million in grants and near-zero-interest loans to support Cambodia, Mozambique, Nepal, St. Lucia, and Zambia in t…
ISDR Thematic Platform for Knowledge and Education 2012:
This desk review revisits existing reports about all aspects of school safety, gathered from 81 countries, and refers to the key advocacy and guidance documents for school safety of the past 7 years to develop an analysis that reflects the best practices in achieving the goals of comprehensive sc…
This document presents a project which aims at improving the knowledge of the distribution of building type for 18 countries where more detailed information, than that previously gathered, became available. Secondly, the project attempts to solve the enumerating problem of population living and working int he different types of buildings identified in t…
Disasters can happen anywhere.Some places are more prone to hazards such as earthquakes, flooding and hurricanes, but there’s nowhere where the risk is zero. The good news is that humans can make good decisions to lower the odds of such hazards turning into disasters. Technology can help determine where to make investments to save the most lives.The ter…
GENEVA, 6 February 2012 - Floods that began in January and which continue to heap misery on communities in Africa, the Americas, Australia and the Pacific, are a strong indication that over 100 million people will again be affected by floods this year in line with long-term trends.
“Widespread floods in January are in keeping with long-term disaster tr…
This guidance document is meant to support practitioners working in disaster prone contexts to develop and implement more effective integrated resilience programming. It promotes programming that cuts across different fields of work like rights awareness, food security, emergency preparedness, livelihoods, education, health etc.
The publication include…
Too many countries are playing Russian roulette when it comes to seismic risk, writes Claire Berlinski, a City Journal contributing editor living in Istanbul in an op-ed for the LA Times. She challenges us to 'truthfully' ask why cities are at risk in the first place.
Los desastres afectan a nuestras sociedades en lo más hondo. Sólo durante este año hemos asistido al triple desastre del Japón (el terremoto y tsunami en la región de Tōhoku y el accidente en el reactor nuclear de Fukushima), a intensas lluvias monzónicas en Pakistán, a inundaciones en Australia y Tailandia, a un terremoto en Nueva Zelandia, a huracanes…
Workshop report, Lisbon, Portugal, 26–29 October 2009:
This document reports on the programme Reduction of Earthquake Losses in the Extended (formerly Eastern) Mediterranean Region (RELEMR), which responds to the need of mobilizing scientific knowledge and technological know-how to assess earthquake hazards in the Extended Mediterranean Region (EMR) a…
A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the knowledge and experiences of public and private organisations working toward disaster preparedness…
13 October 2016, GENEVA –The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today marked International Day for Disaster Reduction by recognising five outstanding examples of successful efforts to reduce disaster mortality.
Today marks the beginning of the “Sendai Seven Campaign: Seven Targets, Seven Years…
This document presents GFDRR's approach, progress made and strategic direction towards adaptation support and disaster risk reduction. It illustrates some concrete examples of various types of projects: (i) economic vulnerability and disaster risk assessments in Malawi and Mozambique; (ii) building cyclone-resistant housing in Madagascar; (iii) disaster…