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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsThe thematic report presents the first baseline for displacement risk associated with sudden-onset disasters in the countries of the Greater Horn of Africa with the ultimate aim of reducing future displacement risk. As sudden-onset natural hazards, primarily floods, caused more than 600,000 new displacements in 2016 in the Greater Horn of Africa, this r…
This article highlights the progress and lessons learnt from the implementation of the 10-year regional strategy for health sector DRM so far and use these to make recommendations for the post-2015 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) emergency public health agenda in Africa.
The authors propose the following:
The contribution of community inv…
The Regional Road Map identifies concrete actions that will advance the current status of seismic risk management in the Caribbean, including replication and scaling up of previous interventions. This tool will assist stakeholders to identify, implement and report on actions taken in their various spheres of work related to risk governance and disa…
Disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa often take a huge toll on vulnerable populations. Loss of life and livelihoods in the face of already existing challenges sets communities back many years leaving them at risk should another natural hazard occur.
To support disaster risk management in Sub-Saharan Africa, the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean…
Disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa often take a huge toll on vulnerable populations. Loss of life and livelihoods in the face of already existing challenges sets communities back many years leaving them at risk should another natural hazard occur.
To support disaster risk management in Sub-Saharan Africa, the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean…
The Country Document for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) presents a 2016 analysis of the current status of DRR in Haiti and is written and published in French. It identifies opportunities and priorities and proposes strategies for the comprehensive national management of risk, in the international context of DRR as encapsultaed in the Sendai Fra…
This paper discusses the post-conflict health system recovery process, including integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) into health recovery interventions, its strengths, challenges and lessons learnt. It seeks to inform the post-2015 Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) post-conflict/disaster health system recovery agenda in Afric…
The report outlines and analyses the key findings of four Community Based Resilience Analysis (CoBRA) assessments, which were undertaken between June and August 2013 in three counties in Kenya (Marsabit, Turkana and Kajiado) and two districts of Karamoja in Uganda. The CoBRA methodology is one of the first practical analytical tools devel…