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Este documento contiene los resultados de una evaluación sobre las vulnerabilidades de la República Dominicana ante un fenómeno natural y cuál es el nivel de preparación con que se cuenta para poder disminuir sus efectos o responder con mayor efectividad. A la vez, el diagnóstico identifica una serie de desafíos que sirven de base para ava…
This publications focuses on 20 core countries with high vulnerability to natural hazards and low economic resilience to cope with disaster impacts including anticipated climate change and variability: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mozambique, Nepal, Panama, Papua…
This collection of papers was written by different experts following the impact of Hurricane Mitch in Central America in October 1998. From regional and community perspectives, the authors describe how communities were organized, how they dealt with stress during the crisis, and how they participated in the daily process of making decisions on reducing…
This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.
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. COVID-19 has become a very clear example of what is meant by systemic risk, and an illustration of the cascading imp…
This document reports on experiences and lessons learned at the national and local level of the Andean and Central American countries surrounding concepts, policies, strategies and tools, capabilities and needs, networking, education, risk management and investment planning for development.
One of the main contributions of the document, which also incl…
@local.glob, issue no. 3 – year 2006:
The document assists in facilitating and supporting efforts by governments, local authorities, international organizations, and multilateral financial and trade institutions to invest in reducing disaster risk and to promote sustainable development policies that will create better opportunities for all.
This speci…
This workshop was driven by one the main challenges faced by the humanitarian sector: the urgent need to shift from a reactive response to crises to more proactive and forward-looking actions, with evidence-based anticipatory action in all aspects of humanitarian aid and effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) as guiding references.The aim is to achieve…
The analysis presented in this document aims to provide a picture of the state of critical infrastructure in Costa Rica based on a qualitative assessment applying the Principles of Resilient Infrastructure. Agreed with the National Commission of Risk Prevention and Emergency Response (CNE), the sectors analyzed are (i) electricity, (ii) oil,…
This contributing paper addresses the analysis of progresses between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) agendas in LAC and its complementary features. Interplay and connections are highlighted together with an analysis of coherence among indicators. The SFDRR constitute an overarching gl…
In 2020, similarly to other regions globally, Latin America has experienced a wildfire season marked by major wildfires in particularly important natural areas such as the Amazon, the Pantanal and El Chaco. Uncontrolled forest and rural fires have significant impacts on the societies, the economies, and the environment of Latin Ameri…
The purpose of this study was to review selected National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)/Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and contributing documents to better understand how disaster risk management is approached in climate change documents, and if systemic risk issues where impacts cascade across sectors are considered.
As such, the study has asses…
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the urgent need for new conceptual and analytical approaches to improve understanding and management of risk dynamics and complex, interconnected risk drivers with cascading effects. Progress will only be accelerated towards risk-informed sustainable development and regeneration by strengthening the understanding of sy…
The aim of this exploratory paper is to provide some critical perspectives and insights on the role of the private sector in disaster risk reduction, in particular with regards to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recovery process.
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) and the International Health Regulations (WHO, 2005) include biological hazards, such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, among the major sources of risks for the 21st century. While COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by this most recent coronavirus, was declared by the World Health Organizati…