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Displaying 9 of about 9 resultsNine years after the tragedy, Saint Bernard still grapples with the challenges associated with rebuilding, reports Rappler. Although in 2006, like most other municipalities, it had no organized disaster risk reduction and management office, but two years after the tragedy, Saint Bernard was awarded a recognition of the best DRRM efforts in the country.…
Donations of agricultural seeds, berry seedlings, bee hives, poultry, small and large cattle, financed by the Austrian Development Agency helped 2,424 agricultural producers in the flood-affected municipalities of Bosnia and Herzegovina recover their lives and livelihood security.
Mirsad and his horse used to plow other people’s fields, bring firewood…
Responding to the longer-term needs after the catastrophic May 2014 floods, the Government of Japan pledged to the 6.2 million BAM funding for two projects: Landslide Disaster Risk Management and Repair and Reconstruction of Centers for Disabled Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), reports Sarajevo Times.
“We at UNDP are thankful to the Government…
By Clémence Finaz & Janani Vivekananda
While much of the debate around climate financing focuses on “how much,” an equally important question is “how?”
It is far from easy to strengthen resilience in places where environmental and climate-related risks also interact with pre-existing social, economic, and political stresses, such as poor governanc…
Degreeresilience and the power to adapt to stress, adversity and traumaDescriptionThis online course explore effective, long-term solutions for:
- Bad governance and poverty
- Contamination of soils, air and water HIV/AIDS and other disease pandemics
- Wars and regional conflicts
- Severe weather-related events such as earthquakes, mudslides and tsunam…
What is ACTED doing to help?
Our teams in Afghanistan have built 416 transitional shelters as well as latrines (toilets), for these internally displaced families in Badakhshan and Baghlan provinces in the North and North East of the country, with OFDA/USAID support.
The households were also trained on techniques to reduce the impact of disaster when i…
Afghanistan - Afghanistan has been affected by over 30 natural disaster incidents in the past month, killing and injuring several people, displacing hundreds of families and damaging homes and farmland in 17 provinces.
IOM has rapidly responded to these incidents, assessing damage and needs in the affected communities and delivering aid in coordination…
This Post-Flood and Landslide Needs Assessment (PFLNA) determines the impact of, and recovery and reconstruction needs following, the devastating floods that hit Myanmar in July and August 2015. The assessment was ley by the Government of Myanmar and supported by the European Union, United Nations agencies, the World Bank, and other development partners…
This brochure is part of a series highlighting the World Bank's achievements in disaster risk management initiatives. It reports on the Joint Rapid Damage Needs Assessment (JRDNA) conducted immediately in the aftermath of the 2013 monsoons, which triggered the collapse of a glacial lake dam and causing heavy flooding and landslides that claimed upwards…