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Displaying 4 of about 4 resultsThis 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…
This paper examines the heterogeneity within Africa’s institutional arrangements for climate-related disaster risk management and introduces a classification that ranks each country as one of three disaster management policy types: the ‘Unprepared Firefighters’ (whose response to disasters is late, delayed and ineffective), the ‘Prepared Firefighte…
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…
This background paper provides a resource for the relative analysis of volcanic hazard and risk around the world on the basis of regions and individual countries with volcanoes that have been active in the last 10,000 years. Global information can mask the fact that there are great variations between countries with active volca…