UNDRR Publications

The theme of the the 2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign is Hospitals Safe from Disasters: Reduce Risk, Protect Health Facilities, Save Lives. During these two years the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR)

Building the resilience of nations and communities to disaster: an introduction to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA):

This brochure outlines what is the Hyogo Framework for Action, its strategic goals and the five priorities for action:

1. Make

A Tearfund research project in collaboration with UN/ISDR

This report highlights key issues raised by the 11 participating organisations of the Tearfund conducted research on disaster risk reduction (DRR), as well as examples of positive donor

This publication is an analysis of the disaster figures in 2006 compared to 2005 and 2000-04.

CRED has been publishing statistics on disasters every year since 1998, thanks to the generous support of the United States Agency for International Development

The Disaster Risk Reduction: 2007 Global Review contrasts and compares contemporary trends and patterns in disaster risk with the progress being made by countries in implementing the priorities for action outlined by the Hyogo Framework. In particular

UN/ISDR Information Note to the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, no. 3.

The UN/ISDR secretariat commissioned three papers to guide discussions at the High Level Dialogue of the first session of the Global Platform for Disaster risk Reduction

IATF/DR-11/finaldoc7

The eleventh session of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction, IATF/DR-11, 24-26 May 2005, reviewed and approved workdoc7 in its present format as a main tool for follow-up actions supporting the implementation of the

The Hyogo Framework calls upon the ISDR Inter-Agency Task Force and secretariat to identify roles, initiatives and partnerships that could assist in implementing the Framework. This has been pursued by the systematic process of compiling a "matrix" of

Extract from the final report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (A/CONF.206/6):

The WCDR was held from 18 to 22 January 2005 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and adopted the present Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and

This study is intended to identify the linkages that need to be established between the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The aim of this review is to draw on existing initiatives to examine each of the eight