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In the documentary “Tsunami Ladies”, producers Emiliano Rodríguez Nuesch and Víctor Orellana show how the women fed neighbors and helped revive their local economies after the tsunamis that hit Chile in 2010 and Japan the following year.

A brief report of the impact of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas & the Caribbean. 

Most of the planet changed its view this year about the meaning of disaster. Not only because of the health crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but because as the emergency unfolded, other risks had to be addressed and managed as well.

An opportunity to acknowledge the progress being made toward reducing disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.

This brief intends to provide a snapshot of the regional Caribbean perspective during the COVID-19 crisis considering the challenges faced by the hurricane season, and assess how existing safe school tools can be useful for the current crisis.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 emphasizes the need to establish public-private partnerships for disaster risk reduction to better address the socioeconomic impacts of disasters. The private sector can support disaster risk

As the Global Risk Assessment Report (GAR2019) has highlighted, the nature and scale of risk have changed. In our increasingly complex inter-connected world risk has become systemic, challenging governance mechanisms of established risk management

El presente marco teórico está diseñado para uso de las agencias nacionales con el fin de mejorar la calidad de la información y los datos que están siendo recopilados para monitorear la implementación del Marco de Sendai para la Reducción del riesgo de

El presente documento ofrece una visión resumida y consolidada, a partir de la información disponible en la Guía de Orientación Técnica, de los requisitos mínimos de los datos necesarios para medir el logro de cada meta, con el objetivo de proporcionar a

The objective of this technical note is to document the Peruvian experience with incorporating disaster risk management in public investment decision-making. This process is considered in the light of the overall advances achieved in the promotion of