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Displaying 1470 of about 1550 resultsThis situation report introduces Typhoon Neoguri's intensity and track, the regions to be affected in Japan and other countries, and the potential damages of Typhoon Neoguri. It then presents historical background and details on the current situation in Japan, previous typhoons in Japan and more specifically in Okinawa Prefecture, the casualties and dam…
This report summarizes all activities implemented for the South West Indian Ocean region in the context of the joint UNISDR/ISLANDS project entitled "Strengthening Capacities for Unified Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Through the Facilitation of Risk Transfer and Finance Mechanisms" within the "ISLANDS Programme for Financial Prot…
This report summarizes all activities implemented for Seychelles in the context of the joint UNISDR/ISLANDS project entitled "Strengthening Capacities for Unified Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Through the Facilitation of Risk Transfer and Finance Mechanisms" within the "ISLANDS Programme for Financial Protection against Climatic…
This publication aims to shed some light on women’s capabilities to take leading roles in building disaster resilience. It features women as drivers of change in different socio-economic contexts, and under various gender conditions.
While the examples portrayed in the publication present a broad range of approaches to women-led disaster risk reduction…
This paper synthesizes the consultations held at the regional, national and local levels throughout the Arab region on the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction, the successor of the Hyogo Framework for Action. This report include the outcomes of various consultations held in the Arab region between 2012 and 2014, including during the First Ar…
This policy aims to provide clear guidance from UNISDR Senior Management on gender mainstreaming in disaster risk reduction (DRR), and to detail a set of actions required to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). The policy builds on the joint publication of UNDP, IUCN and UNISDR in 2009, Making Disaster Risk Reduction Gender Sensitive: Policy…
This report examines the key findings of the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group on Governance and Accountability’s review of best practices in disaster risk reduction as presented in the most recent reports prepared by 25 countries of national progress against the goals and objectives of the Hyogo Framework for Action. The EFDRR Go…
This brochure presents the fifth of five Programmes aimed to improve coherence, focus, depth and efficiency in delivering the results of UNISDR Strategic Framework: Towards 2025. To influence more risk sensitive business investment, this programme will strengthen engagement with the private sector. It will draw on partnership with Pricewaterhouse Cooper…
This brochure presents the fourth of five Programmes aimed to improve coherence, focus, depth and efficiency in delivering the results of UNISDR Strategic Framework: Towards 2025. This programme will leverage the tools and mechanisms of disaster risk reduction to protect lives and assets and to promote sustainable and equitable economic growth in a chan…
This biennial work programme is the second under the UNISDR 'Strategic Framework 2025', launched in 2011. It covers the period 2014-2015.
UNISDR’s main focus in the coming two years is to facilitate and support the organisation of the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), in Japan 14-18 March, 2015 which will adopt a post-2015 disaster r…
This publication, although primarily concerned with disasters in third world societies and with victims disabled by disasters, devotes some consideration to the safety needs of persons disabled prior to disaster. In particular, chapter IV makes a strong case for the consideration of the safety needs of disabled persons when working out disaster plans. T…
This paper builds on the hypothesis that a successful post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR) needs to better address underlying risk factors over a long timeframe and engage directly more pertinent actors such as local government leaders and the private sector. The paper explores the possible priority issues (the "substance") that should…
This report examines key findings of a survey carried out among European countries on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in order to get an overview to which extent, and how, member countries of the European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) link these two issues. It examines key findings of the survey, and provide…
This review of National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction 2012-2013 is the culmination of a collaborative and voluntary self-review process undertaken by 50 counties. It is a response to a recommendation of the Mid-Term Review of the Hyogo Framework of Action 2010-11 to undertake a comprehensive discussion on the role and function of National Platfo…
These contributions from consultations at the Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction build on the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and provide substance for a successor framework beyond 2015, also known as HFA2. This document provides a synopsis of the discussions held during the Global Platform and the documents submitted in…