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Displaying 15 of about 135 resultsGENEVA, 1 February 2012 - An insightful new report on the 2010 Haiti earthquake offers a scathing critique of an international community which “has much to learn from the response in Haiti where it has shown an ability to repeat its errors and shortcomings from past disasters.”
Two years after the event, the PAHO Report: Health response to the earthqua…
This report presents the results of the Sectoral Recovery Capacity Assessment (SRCA) undertaken in Grenada to assess the capacity of the country’s housing sector to plan, design, implement, monitor, and evaluate resilient and inclusive recovery projects. Housing was selected as the priority sector for the SRCA by the Government of Grenada due to its eco…
The goal of BCPR’s presence in UNDP Regional Service Centers (RSCs) is to ensure substantive advice on crisis prevention and recovery (CPR) issues to all UNDP work streams. Specifically, the BCPR/RSC component provides substantive partnerships support and performs cross-practice integration and coordination functions strengthening BCPR support to UNDP C…
An experienced engineer is required with proven overseas experience in the practical design and implementation of construction and shelter projects to provide expertise to Tearfund’s Disaster Management reconstruction work in Haiti.
The position will provide structural engineering advice and oversight to construction projects in the form of design, rev…
Build Change has ongoing post-earthquake housing reconstruction programs in West Sumatra, Indonesia and Sichuan, China. So far, Build Change has improved the design and/or construction of over 6,400 houses, trained nearly 950 builders and over 1,000 technical high school students, engineers, and government officials in safe construction techniques. Buil…
Background
The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) is the office within USAID that is responsible for providing emergency non-food humanitarian assistance in response to international crises and disasters. OFDA is part of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) and is organized into three divisions.
The Di…
Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is seeking a talented professional for the role of Community Development Specialist. The Community Development Specialist plays a key role in developing and implementing community engagement and support strategies, open and transparent accountability and feedback mechanisms, developing community capacity, and de…
The Purpose of the Workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information relating to the improvement of current building design and construction practices in the United States and Japan. The special focus of this Workshop will be on issues relating to the performance of buildings and other structures in severe earthquakes, including t…
This report of the commission describes how the state of Texas responded to the disaster, and how Texans began the long road to recovery.
The report is the product of months of effort by the commission and its many partners, based on hundreds of hours of interviews and after-action reports. It provides a detailed account of the storm a…
The Context
On November 8, 2011, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, noted that China “experienced more major reported disasters” in 2010 than any other country. They included successions of severe droughts and dust storms in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi,…
Over the years the need has surfaced for a more Caribbean focused conference on all possible disaster hazards. This conference seeks to bring together government agencies, academic institutions, and private sector for information exchange, dialogue and development of methods and practice to reduce the harmful impacts of hazards and disasters in the Cari…
This event will address the relationship between climate change and the increase of disasters in Brazil; aspects of disaster management to be discussed are: prevention, response, reconstruction. It will also develop proposals for the Civil Defence and Risk Reduction Disaster System.
Este manual se ha realizado, por lo tanto, con el propósito de que sirva como una guía técnica idónea en donde se presentan alternativas de intervención o rehabilitación sísmica para disminuir la vulnerabilidad de las edificaciones existentes de adobe y tapia pisada y así disminuir la pérdida de vidas humanas en caso de presentarse un sismo. Esta guía n…
A variety of factors can cause emergencies, such as natural disasters or man-made disasters. Whatever the cause, Public Safety Canada works to reduce their impact.
Learn more about what Public Safety Canada is doing in the following areas:
* Disaster mitigation
* Emergency preparedness
* Response
* Recovery
* Critical infrastructure protection
* Cybe…
This guide first lays out the relevant building codes in force in Colombia for small and medium scale construction projects. Subsequent sections discuss factors affecting earthquake vulnerability of masonry structures and mitigation strategies, factors in earthquake resistant design including geo-engineering, structural design, construction materials, a…