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Displaying 8 of about 8 resultsThis issue includes:
Editorial -
Voices & Ideas:
- Chosica: Prevention Bears Fruit
- Crisis or Mitigation?: The role of relationships between institutions and communities in disaster recovery assistance
- Contingency plans for coping with disasters: A need that cannot be postponed
- Agents of Change: The Role of Children and Youth in Disaster
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This recovery status report focuses on the intensive recovery interventions of the international humanitarian community and the Government of Myanmar following the unprecedented damages and losses caused by Nargis. It addresses the need to give priority to long-term recovery activities such as livelihood strengthening, community infrastructure and disas…
The 2009 issue of Africa Informs covers disaster risk reduction activities in Sub Saharan Africa at regional, sub regional and national level.
It includes:
Disaster risk reduction in Africa
Regional level
- Disaster risk reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and the Africa Regional Strategy fo…
This magazine provides considerable updated information on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Central Asia region. It also contributes to strengthening partnerships and to mobilising resources for regional DRR operations. It aims to contribute to making the region more efficient and better prepared to build a safer and more resilient environment.
The…
The Asia-Pacific disaster report, 2010:
This report addresses the exponential increase of disaster risks in Asia-Pacific, as a result of the compounding effects of inequitable economic growth patterns, population pressures and extreme climatic events. It is centred on the thinking that good efforts made by Asia-Pacific countries in reducing vulnerabil…
Experiences and lessons learnt from the project "Building resilience to tsunamis in the Indian Ocean":
This document reports on an initiative which objective is to build the resilience of communities and nations to disasters by strengthening national and local institutions, mechanisms and capacities for disaster risk reduction. It addresses identified…
2010-2015 world disaster reduction campaign:
This information kit outlines the characteristics of a disaster resilient city and identifies what constitutes urban risk. It provides important facts and figures about disaster risk and describes the Making Cities Resilient Campaign 2010-2015. It informs mayors, local governments and other local actors abo…
This publication reports on the analyses and outcomes of the Climate and Disaster Resilience Initiative (CDRI) Capacity-building Program participated by the following 8 cities: Chennai (India), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Hue (Vietnam), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Makati (Philippines), Sukabumi (Indonesia), and Suwon (South Korea).
The CDRI C…