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FAC Net is hosting a two-part online learning event around the topic of community evacuation planning and preparedness. While many of our events are for network members only (join today), we have made this series available to those outside the Network who would like to participate in a series of conversations. Pre-registration is required for both par…
On the theme of Social Capital and Social Connectedness for Resilience, the committee identified three topics as being particularly important for natural hazard mitigation and resilience: (1) inspiring communities to create and sustain social capital and connectedness, (2)
bolstering community-created digital and public spaces, and (3) building social c…
This research examines ways in which governments can enable communities to lead their recovery after emergency events. This is a preliminary report of a continuing study. To date, semi-structured interviews have been held with over 20 experienced individuals about their involvement in community recovery. Participants are community members from disaster-…
The 'Orissa flood resilient shelter program - 2008' is a strategy designed by the non-governmental organization, Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS), India, and its partner Christian-Aid, for the purpose of rehabilitating and helping communities build resilience against floods in Orissa, India.
Nearly a week after an earthquake and tsunami that caused the worst disaster in living memory, tools and water are top priorities for the Samoa Red Cross Society response.
Bush knives, shovels, hammers and nails are being procured by the Samoa Red Cross Society, which is supported by 11 members of a Field Assessment and Coordination Team (FACT) sent by…
The Diocese of North Eastern Caribbean & Aruba (NECA) in the Church in the Province of the West Indies is looking to tap into effective strategies in disaster risk reduction and management as part of the response to Tropical Storm Erika on the island of Dominica.
In a phone call with the Anglican Alliance on 5 November, Bishop Leroy Brooks noted th…
Chris Zobel, a professor of business information technology in the Pamplin College of Business, studies disaster resilience, or the ability to “bounce back” from a calamity typically associated with making a quick recovery but also depends on the capability to resist the disaster’s initial impact.
This is especially important for critical infrastructur…
GENEVA, 28 April 2016 - One of the world’s most ambitious low-cost housing reconstruction programmes ever to be undertaken in a seismic zone is due to get underway this week following first anniversary of the 25 April Nepal earthquake.
Nepal’s new Reconstruction Authority and its partners are embarking on a programme to provide over 500,000 low-c…
Manila - Powerful Typhoon Noul swept through the far northern Philippines on Monday, killing two people, but officials and aid agencies said a greater impact had been averted because people had learnt to heed warnings in the wake of the Haiyan disaster.
Bringing sustained winds of up to 160 kilometers per hour and gusts up to 195 kph, there had been fe…
"Risk reduction and resilience are becoming part of our operational DNA. This is especially true in the Philippines. For decades the Red Cross has invested in local-level disaster risk reduction and mitigation projects in hazard-prone regions of the country. A recent cost-benefit analysis of community infrastructure projects — including a bridge connect…
By Mark Kammerbauer
The 2013 European Floods submerged many riverine regions in southern and eastern Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The Fischerdorf and Natternberg neighborhoods of the Bavarian city of Deggendorf along the Danube river were flooded after two levees within the region breached. These communities faced an additional danger in t…
Ever since the tsunami struck the Tamil Nadu coast and snuffed out thousands of lives exactly a decade ago, there has been a paradigm shift in the focus of disaster management.
According to New Indian Express, rescue, relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction have been given greater emphasis, while steps are constantly on to upgrade other elements of…
Five years on from the 2010 earthquake, Gideon Long revisits the city flattened by a tsunami to find out how a unique collaboration between local residents, businesses and government is driving Constitución’s recovery, reports the Guardian.
It is a poster child for the effectiveness of public-private partnership. According to the article, Arauco, a maj…
Whether refugees living in overcrowded camps or jobless migrant workers forced to return home, the lives of millions of people in Asia-Pacific are threatened by the dangerous combination of displacement and the COVID-19 pandemic.
This brief, developed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, highlig…
This recovery status report focuses on the intensive recovery interventions of the international humanitarian community and the Government of Myanmar following the unprecedented damages and losses caused by Nargis. It addresses the need to give priority to long-term recovery activities such as livelihood strengthening, community infrastructure and disas…