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Under the overall guidance of the Senior Adviser Health, Health Systems Strengthening team and in liaison with the Senior Advisor for Health in Emergencies, the incumbent is to provide technical support to, and strengthen capacities of, regional and priority country offices and fragile or countries at risk for crises, for mainst…
Proyecto:
“Apoyo a los Mecanismos Públicos de Coordinación en Gestión de Riesgos en el Ecuador” Proyecto financiado por la Dirección General de Ayuda Humanitaria y Protección Civil DG-ECHO y la Organización Nacional de Alemania con duración de 17 meses.
Propósito
Asegurar la implementación del proyecto de acuerdo a los objetivos y resultados aprobado…
In 2010, the U.S. the National Commission on Children and Disasters issued its final report, with 81 recommendations and sub-recommendations aimed at ensuring children’s unique needs are accounted for in U.S. disaster preparedness, response and recovery. The Commission was created after the Hurricane Katrina to assess the gaps in federal planning that p…
This publication outlines the experiences of the six Caribbean countries which participated in a process to adapt and implement the Cuban Risk Reduction Management Centre model. The publication shares the stories and lessons learned by a diverse set of stakeholders as they engaged in south-south cooperation as a tool for strengthening their disaster ris…
This document is intended to introduce and integrate land use and transportation issues into states’ conversations about resilience. Disaster preparedness professionals can use it to understand how strategic decisions about land use and transportation can build communities that are more resilient from the ground up. It includes examples of successful im…
This report reviews climate change’s impact on the United States' Western wildfires, discusses their rising costs and increasing size, and projects that in order to fight them, the US Forest Service will have to spend nearly twice as much every year over the next decade. It then outlines policy changes deemed necessary to confront the increasing severit…
This report examines the national legal and regulatory frameworks with regard to disaster risk reduction in Haiti. It analyses the extent to which legal frameworks in Haiti support national and local efforts towards disaster-risk reduction (DRR).
The study covers a broad scope of law and regulation relevant to DRR for natural hazards, including issues…
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Esta investigación analiza las interrelaciones entre el crecimiento económico y los desastres naturales, desde un punto de vista eminentemente macroeconómico. Para el estudio de dichas interrelaciones, se utilizaron cuatro instrumentos diferentes: regresiones con un panel de datos departamental, regresiones con un panel de datos municipal, u…
CEDESYD Boletín, Años 2, Numero 7, Julio 2015:
Este artículo se ha elaborado a manera de realizar una decodificación de los impactos del Marco de Sendai 2015-2030 para los próximos quince años, ya que es evidente que el mismo es muy completo, preciso y consistente, por lo que su análisis permite deducir muchas tendencias en la forma en que percibimos e…
This report presents observations and recommendations obtained from bottom up, participatory assessments with local communities from Chile, Ethiopia, Iran, Panama, Paraguay, Russia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Africa and Uganda, within the Community Conservation Resilience Initiative (CCRI). All the case studies show how local communities and indigeno…
This report presents an initial step toward understanding how climate change may disrupt the telecommunications and data center service sectors. It then highlights a number of suggested recommendations and adaptation options for disaster risk reduction (DRR) from around the world, including some case studies of early implementation actions by telecommun…
This position document presents Partners for Resilience (PfR)'s unique approach to the building of community resilience, developed with more than 40 local implementing partner agencies, integrates climate change adaptation and ecosystem management and restoration into disaster risk reduction (DRR), summarized in key messages and ‘calls to action’ to the…
This technical note presents the case of Colombia on implementing a collective, standardized approach to catastrophe insurance of public buildings. It focuses on the technical details of enhancing insurance requirements for public buildings. It outlines the proposed solutions that were delivered to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (MHCP) and co…
This study examines the effects of two megatrends – climate change and urbanization – on environmental emergencies. It considers how climate change and urbanization affect the scope and scale of emergencies. It argues that these trends are posing multiple challenges for emergency responders by overwhelming national and local-level emergency preparedness…
This report presents three different case studies on disaster risk identification. Each of the case studies presents root causes of risk and risk drivers that lead to the construction of risk. Within these case studies from Taiwan, the Philippines and the United States, the relevant policy findings are highlighted.
Besides offering strong case studies,…