UN support to the UN Plan of Action on Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience

This report provides an assessment of damages and needs resulting from the tsunami that struck the eastern and southwestern coast of India as well as the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on December 26, 2004.

This report presents the preliminary assessment o f damage and needs resulting from the floods that affected Bangladesh from July through September 2004, and the proposed recovery and long-term mitigation program.

The framework presented here consists of a vision for the rehabilitation of the fishery and aquaculture sectors which reflects an “ideal state” towards which all strategies and activities contribute and which avoids the mistakes of the past.

This assessment estimates the damage and reconstruction costs of the October 8, 2005 earthquake that struck areas of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) in Pakistan.

This report provides a summary of damage of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia at the Kabupaten (district) and Kecamatan (subdistrict) levels. The damage assessment activity focused only on survey/data collection and reporting.

This assessment was carried out with a view to providing a measured basis for the development of informed recovery and rehabilitation strategies for the province of Nanngroe Aceh Darussalam focusing on two central themes: settlement and livelihood.

This report is filed as a preliminary assessment of the direct damage caused during Hurricane Ivan.

UNDRR and UNICEF have together produced an educational kit for children called “Let’s learn to prevent disasters!”.